Asian Development Bank on Wednesday lowered India's economic growth forecast for FY2019 to 5.1 per cent on slowing job prospects, rural distress exacerbated by poor harvest and credit crunch. Growth in FY2020 is likely to recover thanks to this support, low oil prices, and a weakening rupee, but risks to the projections remain tilted to the downside, it said on India.
Finance Minister expects rate cut by RBI.
In its mid-year review, the software association Nasscom has revised its forecast for software and services exports (IT & ITeS) for the current fiscal year of 2012-13 to 11 per cent, from the 11-14 per cent range indicated at the beginning of the year.
Nirmal Purja is a multiple Guinness World Records holder for quickest ascents of Everest, Lhotse and Makalu.
The film will be directed by Samuthirakani and will see Amala Paul as the lead actress.
If this turns into reality, India's gross domestic product (GDP) growth will be the lowest since 2012-13, which could severely hit job creation and income growth in the near term.
The wholesale price index inflation is projected at 6.4 per cent for 2017-18.
The film is being produced by Lakshmi Manchu.
The organisation they were linked with has not been revealed, but the officials have in the past identified it as Hizb ut-Tahrir, a British-based Islamic group.
As Britain waits with bated breath for a new entrant into the Royal family, Kate Middleton made a rare slip of tongue that suggested the unborn baby is a girl.
The helicopter accident in Ranchi in which Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda suffered injuries on Wednesday is likely to have been caused by a radar malfunction, initial investigations show.
The film is directed by debutant director Kumar Nagendraand will be made in Tamil and Telugu.
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Planning and Development Department Principal Secretary Vijay Prakash told rediff.com, "It is an age-old tradition across the state that eunuchs visit families on auspicious occasions like baby births. Their visits would be more fruitful if they can be engaged to improve the birth registration rate in the state."
Cautioning that modernisation of the force cannot be done in "fits and starts", government on Tuesday said it will provide all assistance to the Indian Air Force to meet its growth plans and decrease its dependence on foreign companies for major aircraft and equipment.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India again had its way on the contentious Decision Review System (DRS), as the ICC Board failed to ratify its universal application following India's strong opposition to the technology.
The company had announced its plan to launch 15 new products in 2015.
Three members of family, including the wife of Hizbul Mujahedeen militant wanted by National Investigation Agency in connection with the Delhi high court blast last year, have been detained in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir.
The film is about reincarnation where the the hero is reborn as an eega (fly).
Firm Asian cues and a higher opening of European markets reflecting a rally on Wall Street, where all three US indices hit new records following strong economic data, bolstered trading sentiments here
Sharp swings likely in equity, forex and bond markets.
Terming the bi-annual shifting of state capital as a "necessary evil", Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday advocated a reverse 'darbar move' so that the government stays with the people when they are facing hardships due to extreme weather.
Economist Intelligence Unit survey compares more than 400 individual prices across 160 products and services.
The screening will happen later this week in Los Angeles in Kamal Hasaan's presence.
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharama on Thursday stated the government is planning to provide a relief package of Rs 1.7 lakh crore to the underprivileged, poor and migrant workers affected by the lockdown amid the coronavirus outbreak. The scheme has been named the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Scheme.
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The shelling hit a village in Laam belt of Nowshera sector, killing Akhtar Bi and injuring her husband Mohmmad Hanief.
Headed by Urjit Patel, MPC for the fourth straight time kept the repo rate unchanged, at which it lends to the banks, at 6.25 per cent. The reverse repo, at which RBI borrows, will be 6 per cent.
Dismissing opposition's claims that he was using his nationwide yatra to promote himself for the prime ministerial candidate, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Lal Krishna Advani on Friday said collective decisions are taken in his party which does not believe in dynastic politics.
Fifty-seven new trains were proposed by the railways minister Mamata Banerjee as she presented he Railway Budget for 2009-10 in Parliament on Friday.
Harish Kotian speaks to KKR's hero Manvinder Bisla, who looks the complete wicketkeeper-batsman, prompting many a critic to say he could be the perfect man to replace Mahendra Singh Dhoni when the need arises.
Harish Kotian speaks to KKR's hero Manvinder Bisla, who looks the complete wicketkeeper-batsman, prompting many a critic to say he could be the perfect man to replace Mahendra Singh Dhoni when the need arises.
An old Asiatic lion, who ruled literally like a king in the Dedkadi range of Gir forest on the Saurashtra peninsula of Gujarat, died on Sunday. The cause, according to forest authorities, was an attack of pneumonia coupled with old age
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The director talks about his experience of working with the cast and crew of the film.
Titled Yen Endraal Kadhal Enben the film also stars Radhika Apte, Anu Haasan amongst others.
Top seed Rafa Nadal set up an all-Spanish final against David Ferrer at the Barcelona Open after blasting his way past compatriot Fernando Verdasco 6-0, 6-4 on Saturday.
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