The reserves rose to $501.70 billion helped by a whopping rise in foreign currency assets, the latest data from the Reserve Bank of India.
CPI inflation slowed to 9.39% in April compared with 10.39% in March.
Athletes capable of adapting to uncertainty amid the coronavirus outbreak will be best placed to succeed at the Tokyo Olympics, India's sole individual Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra said. Known for his Zen-like poise and attention to minute details in preparation, Bindra, who won shooting gold at the 2008 Games in Beijing, said adaptability is key for athletes training to excel in Tokyo amid concerns about the virus.
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The real focus should be on India AND China, says Meera Sanyal.
Human memory about policy issues is short. That alone can explain why many are deliriously happy with his latest slogans and ignore seven years of poor 'doing business' climate, taxtortion, extortionate oil prices, and high dependence on babus and the big State that has kept the enterprise system stifled, observes Debashis Basu.
Many join the course but most either leave mid-way to take jobs or are not able to clear the exams.
ZEE5 has launched a short film festival. Joginder Tuteja tells you what's on offer.
Dr Kanchan Sanyal, health and wellness advisor at Columbia Pacific Communities, a healthcare group, shares some crucial tips to stay safe.
As the legend turns 40, we take a look at his journey in cricket and life.
Maoists on Monday night named three negotiators to talk to the Odisha government on the Italian hostage crisis even as they set a fresh 24-hour deadline for acceptance of 13 demands including withdrawal of cases against the ultras.
It is a very different victory of Maradona that fascinates me even more, notes ad guru Sandeep Goyal.
Kolkata software engineer who scored a perfect 100 percentile in CAT 2011 says that he is looking forward to he wants to be an investment banker and will join IIM-Calcutta because it is the best management institute to study finance.
Economists praise Das for his pragmatism and willingness to face challenges head on. And in doing so with the finesse of an able administrator.
IIT Bombay has, over the last decade, generated Rs 200 crore (Rs 2 billion), only via donations from its alumni.
After the United Nations declared June 21 as the International Yoga Day in December last year at India's request, the officers in the Ministry of Ayush began ideating about how to celebrate it in the country.
The overall market breadth remained firm as 1,618 stocks are advancing while 1,270 are declining.
North Block and Mint Road seem likely to now stick to the earlier convention of the RBI governor coming to Delhi and being the only MPC member meeting the finance minister and senior bureaucrats on pre-policy meetings
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People on the move may not need to carry laptops and may not need desktops at all like they did earlier.
Three years after the attacks on Mumbai on 26/11, we have to ask ourselves: Are we any better off? What lessons did we learn? Can we prevent an attack or cope with it better today?
During a series of hectic talks between Cairn Energy and the Indian government over the $1.2-billion arbitration award in favour of the former last week, a slew of options was proposed by the two sides, including computation of capital gains and participation in the Vivad se Vishwas (VsV) dispute resolution scheme. The government is likely to go ahead and appeal against the arbitration award by a Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague before March 21, indicated finance ministry officials. Cairn Energy Plc on Sunday said it was hopeful that an acceptable solution to its tax dispute with the Indian government could be found to avoid prolonging and exacerbating the 'negative issue' for all parties.
Absolutely shocking! This is how Ileena Sen, the wife of Dr Binayak Sen, reacted to the judgment pronounced against her husband by a Chhatisgarh court on Friday.
Rajorshi Sanyal joins Manu Shankar and Abhishek Mande as they get talking about the England-Ireland match in the World Cup.
Rajorshi Sanyal joins Manu Shankar and Abhishek Mande as they get talking about the England-Ireland match in the World Cup.
The engineering marvel defines the Kolkata skyscape.
While most Commonwealth Games winners are asking for 20-35 per cent more, the young stars of India's world cup win have doubled their rates.
The publishing house faced massive backlash online on Friday after an advertisement of the book launch on Saturday with Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kapil Mishra as a guest of honour did the rounds on social media.
By treating Maoists and their sympathisers similarly, we will be driving more people -- who are now merely in the periphery -- into the arms of hard-core violence, warns B Raman
A Raipur sessions court on Friday held Dr Binayak Sen, Naxal ideologue Narayan Sanyal and Kolkata businessman Piyush Guha guilty of treason and waging war against the state and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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While the team may seem 'balanced' to many, injury woes may spoil the show again for the home team, says Rajorshi Sanyal about the World Cup team
Supplementary provisions exceeded the original provision by as much as 239,900 per cent in 2014-15.
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In a major embarrassment to the Indian Army, the national flag was held upside down at a function in presence of senior army officers in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Results of four state elections are giving a strong message that government and political parties need to ensure good governance and provide corruption free rule, industry leaders said on Sunday.
We need to change the way we think of slums and small towns - this is where the new middle class is being created.
A 30-year-old woman's body was found near a village school in Uttar Pradesh's Mohanlalganj area. Sharat Pradhan reports that the victim was brutally stabbed and then left to bleed.
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