Developed to meet the growing transportation needs of modern India, the fully AC Vande Bharat sleeper train would offer passengers an "airline-like travel experience at economical fares," a statement issued by the PMO stated.
The record monsoon rains across India during the June to September months was 937.2 millimetres, the 5th-highest since 2001 and 38th-highest since 1901.
Nearly half of India's sizeable population was on Tuesday forced to spend some agonising hours in absolute darkness due to a major power blackout in northern, eastern and north-eastern India.
More than 20 hours after the country's worst power failure, the three major electricity grids that had collapsed have been restored, Power Grid said on Wednesday.
Power supply has been restored fully in the north-east and it will take a few more hours to resume supplies in other parts of country hit by the outages, Union minister Sushilkumar Shinde said on Tuesday. Grids in the northern, eastern and north-eastern regions failed at 1 am today, causing power crisis for nearly half of the country's population, spread across 22 states and union territories.
Food retailing major McDonald's opened its first restaurant at Kolkata's Park Street.
Bharti Televentures on Thursday announced plans to provide GSM services to six eastern and north-eastern states as well as to Andaman & Nicobar Islands, in two phases.
An earthquake, which hit Myanmar, triggered tremors in parts of Kolkata, Guwahati, Patna, Bhubaneswar and, also, Delhi.
Tawang wears its history -- and also its present -- with ease. The flourishing town, with restaurants selling everything from noodles to dosas and locals returning home to new business prospects, shows little sign of the tension building up at the border about 40 km away to the north.
A shortfall in LPG supply from Aramco has led to huge booking backlog across states. To meet the backlog, India has asked Abu Dhabi National Oil Company for two additional cargos of LPG, but that may take another 10 days to reach.
The slow progress of the south-west monsoon has led to overall deficiency of rains by 22 per cent over the last fortnight, the meteorological department on Wednesday said.
A special task force of the SFIO recently submitted an interim report to the Corporate Affairs Ministry in this regard.
Responding to cyclone Hudhud, the armed forces have repositioned their resources to assist the civil administration to launch rescue and relief operations in the affected regions of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.
The regulator is also exercising its new powers like collection of information from other regulators, government departments and even commercial enterprises such as telecom companies and banks.
Lagarde had said an Indian could head IMF.
Rain deficiency in eastern and western Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Gangetic West Bengal, Assam and Meghalaya is 20-46 per cent less than normal as of June 17.
Scores of Banaras Hindu University students also staged a protest at the Lanka Gate in support of the AMU students.
A preliminary report on the investigations is likely to be submitted soon by SFIO, but the final report may take little longer, Corporate Affairs Minister Sachin Pilot said.
Poor rain threatens recovery in production this season, sugar prices at three-month high
A PTI tally of figures announced by states and UTs, as of 9.30 pm, showed the total number of confirmed cases having risen to close to 2.1 lakh and the death toll to approximately 6,000, showing an increase of nearly 9,000 cases since Tuesday evening and at least 273 more fatalities in this time period.
The bids have been invited by Sebi till October 27, while auction for the sale would take place on October 30
It is a complete mayhem in West Bengal, Manipur and Odisha with more than 60 dead
According to Indian meteorological department, tremors were felt in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Haryana and Punjab, lasting for a minute, triggering panic and forcing people to rush out of their homes and offices. There was no official word about casualties from any of the states but reports from West Bengal said cracks appeared in several multi-storeyed buildings in Siliguri in north Bengal. An incident of wall collapse was reported from Telipara in Jalpaiguri district.
From zeroing in on the best means for stake dilution to moving beyond microfinance, Bandhan navigates a tough path. Namrata Acharya reports.
Twenty years ago, over 50 days in the summer of 1999, the Indian Army fought some of the toughest battles in the annals of military history to evict the Pakistan army from Kargil. The battle to recapture Tiger Hill was a major turning point in the Operation Vijay campaign, points out Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd).
Analysts say loan growth, Casa ratio and exposure to sectors under pressure did not indicate any stress at United Bank.
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