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    Indian PM Narendra Modi with US president Donald Trump. (PTI)Opinion
    Edit | India must not buy into United States' rhetoric on China

    The tenor of the US criticism of Xi's China has of late taken on a sharp political and ideological dimension.

    12 Oct 2020 10:40 PM IST

    Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Shaktikanta Das addresses via livestream as he announces the central banks monetary policy decisions, in Mumbai. PTI photoOpinion
    Edit | India's economic recovery is contingent on curbing COVID-19

    A full recovery in the economy, therefore, would be incumbent on how fast the world defeats the coronavirus.

    12 Oct 2020 6:40 PM IST

    Congress supporters at a public rally during Kheti Bachao Yatra against the new farm bills, in Kurukshetra. PTI photoIndia
    SC seeks Centre's reply on pleas challenging constitutionality of farm...

    A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde, in a hearing conducted via video conferencing, issued notice to the central...

    12 Oct 2020 4:26 PM IST

    Future First Insurance Broking has teamed up with Arohan Financial Services, part of the Aavishkaar Group, eastern Indias largest NBFC MFI, to offer simple, customized and affordable insurance products in areas of major livelihood threats including health, accident, natural calamities, theft etc.Business
    IRDAI panel bats for lower capital, liberal norms for floating...

    The changes would require amendments to the Insurance Act, 1938 to bring the standalone microinsurance business under...

    12 Oct 2020 2:18 PM IST

    US President Donald Trump greets supporters after speaking about law and order from the South Portico of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 10, 2020. (AFP)World
    Claiming COVID-19 immunity, Trump hits the election trail again

    Twitter on Sunday hid a tweet from Trump in which he claimed he was immune, saying the post violated its rules about...

    12 Oct 2020 12:55 PM IST

    Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan defends lifting lockdown, urges nation to live with the virus. (AFP Photo)World
    FATF keeps Pakistan on 'Enhanced Follow-up' for meagre progress...

    The development came only a few weeks ahead of the meeting of the FATF to decide on Pakistan's grey list status

    12 Oct 2020 12:38 PM IST

    An employee walks in the water tank of the metropolitan outer underground discharge channel in Kasukabe, Saitama prefecture. - It has been called Japans underground \Parthenon,\ a cavernous complex charged with protecting Tokyo and surrounding areas from catastrophic flooding -- a risk experts warn is growing as climate change advances. (AFP)World
    The underground 'Parthenon' protecting Tokyo from floods

    In Tokyo alone there are 10 other underground reservoirs and three flood tunnels, and more flood-protection structures...

    12 Oct 2020 12:03 PM IST

    An Atlas Centaur 7 rocket on the launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASAs leading asteroid expert, Paul Chodas, speculates that asteroid 2020 SO, as it is formally known, is actually a Centaur upper rocket stage that propelled NASAs Surveyor 2 lander to the moon in 1966 before it was discarded. (AP)Science
    Fake asteroid? NASA expert IDs mystery object as old rocket

    The rocket swept past the moon and into orbit around the sun as intended junk, never to be seen again until perhaps now

    12 Oct 2020 11:40 AM IST

    View of Mumbai city skyline. Large parts of the financial capital reported major power outage on Monday morning due to a technical failure. (PTI)Metros
    Major power outage across Mumbai due to grid failure

    Suburban local train services, operating only for essential workers at present, were affected from 10 am, sources said

    12 Oct 2020 11:35 AM IST

    Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen delivers a speech during National Day celebrations in front of the Presidential Building in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020. Tsai said Saturday she has hopes for less tensions with China and in the region if Beijing will listen to Taipeis concerns, alter its approach and restart dialogue with the self-ruled island democracy. (AP)World
    Taiwan claims entrapment after China shows spy 'confession'

    China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, has repeatedly denounced Taipei for offering support to Hong Kong's...

    12 Oct 2020 10:51 AM IST

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