NEW DELHI: India’s updated consumption data significantly influenced World Bank’s global benchmark and improved methods captured more actual spending, leading to a more realistic poverty line and lower poverty rate despite an increase in the threshold, govt said on Saturday.World Bank has announced a revision to global poverty estimates, raising the international poverty line from…
MANGALURU: Mangaluru police on Saturday arrested a postgraduate medical student, Chalasani Monica Choudary, for making a hoax bomb threat call to a private hospital.City police commissioner Sudheer Kumar Reddy C H said preliminary investigation revealed the accused made the hoax call on June 4 to trigger a scare so that she could avoid making a…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said initiatives undertaken during the last 11 years of his tenure have increased the prosperity of farmers and ensured an overall transformation of the farm sector, and promised that his govt’s efforts towards farmer welfare will continue with “greater vigour” in the times to come.Ahead of 11th…
KOTA: An ICICI Bank relationship manager in Rajasthan’s Kota, Sakshi Gupta, has been arrested for allegedly siphoning off Rs 4.6 crore from 110 accounts of 41 customers from 2020 to 2023 for unauthorised stock market investments that turned into duds, reports Rajiv Saxena.Police said Sakshi concealed the unlawful cash pullouts by replacing registered mobile numbers…
NEW DELHI: Top BJP functionaries including party president J P Nadda and Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday reacted vehemently to Congress member Rahul Gandhi’s latest claim questioning the Maharashtra assembly polls, saying that the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha was reflecting his desperation after his party’s losses and the looming one in Bihar assembly polls.“Rahul…
HYDERABAD: In a major breakthrough, Telangana Anti Narcotics Bureau’s (TGANB) investigation to trace the inter-state hawala cash trail of international drug cartels ended in a washing machine in a Goa flat, from which it seized Rs 50 lakh a few days ago.TGANB director Sandeep Shandilya, said the money, collected over just two days, was moments…
JAMMU: The Army paid tributes to a soldier who had sustained grievous injuries during Operation Sindoor, and died Friday night.In a post on X on Saturday, J&K-based White Knight Corps said the General Officer Commanding and other ranks saluted Havildar Sunil Kumar Singh, who was undergoing treatment at Command Hospital, for his supreme sacrifice. “His…
Shashi Tharoor led all-party delegation with US deputy secretary of state Christopher Landau (Picture credit: X/@Tejasvi_Surya) NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, leading an all-party parliamentary delegation to the United States, briefed key American officials on the escalating threat of cross-border terrorism faced by India and the country’s strong counter-response through Operation Sindoor. According to…
Bengaluru stampede: Compensation raised to Rs 25 Lakh; KSCA secretary, treasurer resign NEW DELHI: Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah has announced an increase in compensation for the families of those who died in the tragic stampede outside the M Chinnaswamy Stadium to Rs 25 lakh each, up from the earlier Rs 10 lakh. The incident on…
Kochi-based Paul And Mike were one of the first to launch their own take Sometimes, a global trend finds its sweetest home far from where it began. Ashmeet Singh Dua didn’t think a viral chocolate bar with a pistachio filling from Dubai would define his five-year-old Hyderabad-based dessert brand but the kunafa pistachio chocolate bar…
