NEW DELHI: Four Indian nationals were reported to have died on Sunday in an attack on a commercial vessel – MV Golden Leo – while it was departing the port of Odesa in Ukraine. At the time of the incident, there were 17 crew members on board, including 5 Indian nationals, according to the Indian…
A senior Iranian official told Reuters on Monday that Tehran had received a proposal from mediators for a 10-day ceasefire in an effort to salvage the interim deal, intended to pave the way to a lasting agreement to end the war that began on Feb 28.Iran’s foreign ministry said mediators had recently presented proposals to…
SRINAGAR: NC’s protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Monday, led by party president Farooq Abdullah and CM Omar Abdullah, seeking restoration of statehood, drew scathing criticism from other political parties in J&K.While BJP accused the CM and his ministers of being away from the UT even as flash floods wreaked havoc, PDP said…
MUMBAI: Indian markets closed lower on Monday as fluctuating crude prices and global risk-off cues weighed on sentiment, with the sensex falling 443 points or 0.6% to 77,709 and the Nifty declining 96 points or 0.4% to 24,239, while the rupee weakened to 96.45 against the dollar from 96.28.Banking stocks led the decline after mixed…
NEW DELHI: : Govt on Monday told Parliament that there was no move at the moment to abolish long-term capital gains tax on equities for retail or domestic investors.“The tax policies, including capital gains tax rates, are revised periodically as part of the annual budgetary process and legislative revisions after taking into consideration the macroeconomic…
KOLKATA: “There was no need to fire bullets to control the crowd located far away from Writers’ Buildings,” CM Suvendu Adhikari read out from the Sushanta Chatterjee Commission’s report on the police firing on a Mamata Banerjee-led Youth Congress rally on July 21, 1993, that led to the death of 12 activists (a 13th person…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the media ahead of the start of the Monsoon Session of Parliament in New Delhi on Monday. (AP image) NEW DELHI: On a day when the Cockroach Janta Party-headed protest against govt over NEET-UG paper leak and myriad issues turned violent, PM Narendra Modi Monday said the Indian youth is…
NEW DELHI: The rise in urea prices moderated last month, though it remained 45% higher than in June 2025. As per govt data, international urea prices were $572 per tonne last month, compared to $395 per tonne a year back.In a big relief to govt, urea prices fell to $572 per tonne in June, a…
Arshad Warsi’s wife Maria Goretti admits she misses financial independence after quitting her successful MTV career: ‘When I had the kids, I wanted to sit’ Former MTV VJ Maria Goretti has opened up about stepping away from a successful television career after marrying actor Arshad Warsi, admitting that while she sometimes misses earning her own…
Nagpur’s Sairaj Nayse paired up with Mumbai’s Satya Chauhan to clinch U-17 boys doubles bronze medal in Yavatmal Nagpur: City shuttlers Sairaj Nayse, Sara Peshkar and Devansh Thaokar won a bronze medal each in their respective doubles events of the Jawaharlal Darda Memorial Maharashtra State Sub-Junior Badminton Tournament, which concluded at Yavatmal on Sunday. Sara…