Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards said on Tuesday they launched tens of missiles toward Israel and warned that if Israel retaliated Tehran’s response would be “more crushing and destructive”, Iranian state TV reported. “After a period of restraint, Iran has targeted the heart of the occupied territories with tens of missiles following the martyrdom of (Hamas […]

Surgeon Vice Admiral Arti Sarin on Tuesday became the first woman officer to take over as the Director General, Armed Forces Medical Services (DGAFMS). Vice Admiral Sarin, an MD in Radiodiagnosis from Armed Forces Medical College in Pune, was recently appointed as a member of the National Task Force by the Supreme Court to formulate […]

New Delhi The government on Tuesday launched yet another scheme for electric vehicles – the Prime Minister Electric Drive Revolution in Innovative Vehicle Enhancement (PM E-DRIVE) – with the Minister for Heavy Industries H. D. Kumaraswamy saying efforts will be continued to ensure that the country moves towards cleaner and sustainable mobility. However, sources in […]

In a bid to increase participation in interest rate derivatives in the domestic market, a panel set up by the Reserve Bank of India has proposed a slew of measures, including asking banks to review the possibility of pricing small-ticket advances based on market-determined benchmarks. The panel has mooted transitioning to a new benchmark reflective […]

India Inc continued showing resilience in H1FY25, with rating upgrades outpacing rating downgrades for fourth year in a row, according to multiple credit rating agencies. Domestic rating agency ICRA said credit ratio of its rated companies — which essentially denotes ratio of the number of rating upgrades to downgrades — stood at 2.2 times in […]

Major passenger vehicle (PV) manufacturers including Maruti Suzuki India (MSIL), Hyundai Motor India (HMIL) and Tata Motors have reported a decline in their wholesales (dispatches to dealers) in September on an yearly basis, owing to the Shradh period, which continues till early this month. However, companies like Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), Kia India and Toyota […]

In the aftermath of a match that forced India to play an extreme kind of Test cricket – scoring their first-innings runs at almost nine an over and declaring after 34.4 – to secure the result they wanted because of days lost to rain and poor drainage in Kanpur, there has been a heightened focus […]

Jammu and Kashmir recorded a voter turnout of 65. 58 per cent in the final phase of polling on Tuesday. A total of 40 Assembly constituencies spanning across seven districts–Jammu, Udhampur, Samba and Kathua in the Jammu region and Baramulla, Bandipora and Kupwara in north Kashmir —of Jammu and Kashmir witnessed polling. The polling began […]

National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval held discussions on 26 Rafale Marine fighter jets for Indian Navy in a meeting with French Minister for the Armed Forces Sebastien Lecornu in Paris, as the Dassault Aviation has already submitted final price for the platforms. The meeting between the two sides is expected to take negotiations close […]

NITI Aayog has launched its maiden State Chapter of Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) in association with WE Hub and the Telangana government. With over 30,000 registered women entrepreneurs and associations, the WEP has over 400 mentors from different industry sectors. WE Hub Chief Executive Officer, Sita Pallocholla, has been appointed Mission Director of the WEP […]