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Russia launches scheme to boost birth rate, offers money to schoolgirls for having children
World | Jul 05, 2025, 11:50 PM ISTRussia has launched a controversial scheme offering money to adult schoolgirls to boost birth rates amid a deepening demographic crisis.
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Modi govt's success: India's poverty rate drops from 27.1% to 5.3% in a decade, says World Bank
Business | Jun 08, 2025, 06:19 PM ISTIndia has made remarkable progress in reducing extreme poverty, with the poverty rate dropping from 27.1% in 2011-12 to 5.3% in 2022-23, according to the World Bank, driven by government programs like the free food distribution scheme.
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Vegetable prices soar in Varanasi due to rain
News | Jun 30, 2021, 08:54 PM ISTVegetable prices have shot up since few days in parts of Varanasi.
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COVID: 'Recovery rate 93% in Maharashtra, but lockdown still extended'
News | May 28, 2021, 06:07 PM ISTTalking on the current COVID crisis, Maharashtra Health Minister, Rajesh Tope said, "The recovery rate in the state has reached to 93 per cent.
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COVID-19: Mumbai's test positivity rate drops below 10 pc
India | Apr 30, 2021, 02:47 PM ISTCOVID-19 test positivity rate in Mumbai has dropped below 10 percent
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Vegetable prices soar upto 60% from mandi to retail cart
India | Mar 25, 2015, 01:00 PM ISTNew Delhi: Despite a prolific winter, the prices of vegetables and pulses are increasing upward relentlessly.In several cities, prices are higher than average. In Jaipur, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Delhi, Mumbai and Ahmedabad, tomatoes are selling at
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Vegetable prices to soar despite decline in inflation rate
India | Mar 17, 2015, 09:52 AM ISTNew Delhi: Food inflation strengthened in February on the back of rising vegetable, pulses and onion prices and the unseasonal rains in some parts of the country is expected to continue putting more pressure.As per
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Will break vicious cycle of high inflation-interest rate: FM
Jun 09, 2014, 06:18 PM ISTNew Delhi: Committing to break the vicious cycle of high inflation and high interest rate, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today made a case for putting in place strict measures and special courts to stop hoarding
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Wriddhiman Saha: Still rate 35 at Adelaide above century in IPL
Cricket | Jun 05, 2014, 07:45 AM ISTNew Delhi: He has been the focus of attention after a magnificent hundred in the IPL final but Wriddhiman Saha rates a long-forgotten 35-run Test knock in Australia higher than his latest feat. "Although the
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TataSky hikes subscription rates by 8% on premium services
May 15, 2014, 09:22 PM ISTMumbai: Direct-to-home TV broadcast service provider TataSky has hiked its subscription rates by up to 8 per cent (up to Rs 370), on its select long-duration as well monthly packs from this month.The move comes
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Trai For 8% Licence Fee On Internet Cos;May Push Up Rates
May 02, 2014, 05:12 PM ISTNew Delhi: Telecom regulator Trai on Thursday (1 May) suggested a new definition of revenue for Internet service providers (ISPs) on which the government should levy 8 per cent annual fee.Industry officials said the recommendation,
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RBI may not ease rates till Jan 2015: Icra
May 01, 2014, 11:50 PM ISTMumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is unlikely to ease rates till early 2015 as the possibility of a below-average monsoon will make it difficult to contain inflation at the targeted 8 per cent
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Bharti Airtel hikes rates of select Internet, call packs
Apr 13, 2014, 03:53 PM ISTNew Delhi: Telecom major Airtel has increased mobile services rates of both internet and calls under certain schemes, giving an indication of next round of tariff hikes in the industry.“There has been change in Airtel
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SBI to hold home loan rates
Apr 05, 2014, 10:15 PM ISTKolkata: The State Bank of India (SBI) will hold on to its home loan rates, a senior official of the bank said here today.“Home loan rates will remain as they are,” SBI Chairperson and Managing
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Rate cut not enough, need enabling environment for growth: HSBC
Mar 23, 2014, 11:59 PM ISTNew Delhi: To spur investments, the country also needs an “enabling environment” besides reduction in interest rates, HSBC Country Head Naina Lal Kidwai has said. “Interest rates are not the only reason why investment is not
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Gold, silver surge on sesonal demand, firm global trend
Oct 08, 2013, 06:26 PM ISTNew Delhi: Gold and silver prices surged for the third straight day in the bullion market today on sustained buying by stockists and jewellers for the ongoing festival and marriage season amid a firming global
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Onion wholesale prices down Rs 5/kg, retail rates still high
India | Sep 24, 2013, 05:51 PM ISTNew Delhi: Wholesale prices of onion today declined by Rs 5 at Rs 40-45 per kg, although retail rates continued to rule at the uncomfortable level of Rs 60-70 a kilo.Arrival of new crop of
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Onion prices remain high at Rs 60/kg; wholesale rates soften
India | Aug 13, 2013, 07:36 PM ISTNew Delhi: Onion prices remained high at Rs 60 per kg in Delhi today even though wholesale rates fell by Rs 5 per kg on increased supply.In upmarket colonies, the bulb, a key ingredient in
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Gold snaps 3-day fall, up by Rs 120
Jun 27, 2013, 04:09 PM ISTNew Delhi, Jun 27: Snapping a three-day falling trend, gold prices today recovered by Rs 120 to Rs 26,800 per 10 grams in the national capital on buying at existing lower levels amid a rebound
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RBI Keeps Rate Unchanged; Inflation To Guide Future Action
Mar 15, 2012, 12:00 PM ISTMumbai, Mar 15: The Reserve Bank today kept key policy rate unchanged and said future policy action would be determined by the movement in inflation.“On the basis of the current macroeconomic assessment, it has been