July 14 (Reuters) – India’s RBI on Tuesday proposed easing rules for mutual funds, insurance companies and pension funds to raise their stakes in banks to up to 10%. The Reserve Bank of India has proposed that these investors will
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Dehradun, Jul 14 (PTI) Additional Chief Electoral Officer Vijay Kumar Jogdande on Tuesday said that more than 71.33 lakh voters were included in the draft voter list, while 8.26 lakh may face deletion following the completion of the Special Intensive
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New Delhi, Jul 14 (PTI) Gold prices fell by Rs 700 to Rs 1.46 lakh
Mumbai, Jul 14 (PTI) Stock market benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty tumbled on Tuesday as a sharp surge in crude oil prices due to
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July 14, 2026 (Conversation) Ask people what they want at the end of their lives, and overwhelmingly the answers will revolve around comfort, dignity
New Delhi, Jul 14 (PTI) People with both excess body fat and poor muscle health could be more than three-and-a-half times likely to develop
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WASHINGTON, July 14, 2026 (AP) — President Donald Trump is welcoming Iraq’s new prime minister to the White House on Tuesday after strongly backing the political neophyte in his bid for office. Ali al-Zaidi, a businessman with no political background, emerged as a consensus candidate in Iraq after months of deadlock over the premiership following last year’s parliamentary elections. When
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NEW DELHI, July 14 (Reuters) – A prominent Indian social activist demanding
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New York, Jul 7 (PTI) US legal experts said it would be
NEW DELHI, July 3 (Reuters) – The world’s biggest internet domain seller,
NEW YORK, May 15, 2026 (AP) — The U.S. government has agreed
May 15 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department is close to dropping
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July 14, 2026 (Conversation) Last week, the US software company Turnitin revealed 53.6% of Australian tertiary education submissions run through its system used some form of AI in the period from October 2025-April 2026. The company, whose plagiarism-detection technology is widely used
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EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada, July 9, 2026 (AP) — Facebook and Instagram parent Meta said Wednesday it will invest more than US$9.1 billion to build its first artificial intelligence data center in Canada and its largest outside the United States. The facility will
July 6, 2026 (Conversation) Most people can do this easily. They imagine the apple’s shape, colour and shine. But for others, the image is vague and blurry or they “see” nothing at all. This is known as aphantasia – a “blind mind’s eye”. What we are dealing with here are individual differences in mental imagery. Research suggests mental imagery exists
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July 13, 2026 (Conversation) Phones and devices have become inextricably linked with everyday life. They store our credit cards, provide critical bus updates, and allow us to communicate whenever we need to. But when our device use starts to affect our mood,
July 9 (Reuters) – Dixon Technologies said on Thursday the Indian government had approved its joint venture with Chinese smartphone maker Vivo Mobile, clearing the way for the companies to set up a smartphone manufacturing company in India. The joint venture will
July 9 (Reuters) – Multiple Pakistani law enforcement agencies were targeted in separate hacking campaigns linked to groups associated with China and India, researchers at cybersecurity firm SentinelOne said on Thursday. The campaigns offer a glimpse into foreign efforts to gather information
New Delhi, Jul 2 (PTI) Meta-owned WhatsApp has released a detailed set of frequently asked questions (FAQs) on its upcoming username feature, outlining how it plans to address concerns around impersonation, scams and unwanted contact as users begin reserving usernames. The FAQs come
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India proposes easing path for funds, insurers to raise bank stakes up to 10%
July 14 (Reuters) – India’s RBI on Tuesday proposed easing rules for mutual funds, insurance companies and pension funds to raise their stakes in banks to up to 10%. The Reserve Bank of India has proposed that these investors will receive a one-time approval for subsequent acquisitions of major shareholding in a bank where they already hold a stake Under current rules, the investors must seek fresh approval each time their shareholding falls below 5% before they can raise it above that threshold The proposed change would eliminate the need for repeated approvals, making it easier for the investors whose
Uttarakhand draft electoral roll published after SIR; voters down to 71.33 lakh
Dehradun, Jul 14 (PTI) Additional Chief Electoral Officer Vijay Kumar Jogdande on Tuesday said that more than 71.33 lakh voters were included in the draft voter list, while 8.26 lakh may face deletion following the completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Uttarakhand. Jogdande told PTI that out of 71,33,785 voters in the draft list, 52 per cent are male, 47 per cent female, and 217 belong to the third gender. The SIR exercise was conducted in the state on July 1. Under this, the distribution and digitisation of enumeration forms were completed between June 7 and July 8.
India says committed to combating organised crime after US indictment in Canada murder case
NEW DELHI, July 14 (Reuters) – India said on Tuesday that it is committed to working with its partners to combat transnational organised crime, a week after the U.S. charged the imprisoned head of an Indian criminal gang with directing the 2023 murder of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada. Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot dead outside a Sikh temple in Canada’s Surrey, and then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had alleged Indian involvement in his killing, badly damaging ties between the countries. India had termed the accusations “absurd”. The U.S. last week charged Indian criminal gang leader Lawrence Bishnoi and his
Gold falls Rs 700, silver slumps Rs 8,900 in Delhi
New Delhi, Jul 14 (PTI) Gold prices fell by Rs 700 to Rs 1.46 lakh per 10 grams in the national capital on Tuesday, and silver slumped by Rs 8,900, as subdued demand weighed on the domestic bullion market. The yellow metal of 99.9 per cent purity dropped by Rs 700 to Rs 1,46,300 per 10 grams (inclusive of all taxes) from Monday’s closing level of Rs 1,47,000 per 10 grams. Silver also witnessed a sharper correction, tumbling Rs 8,900 to Rs 2,26,100 per kilogram (inclusive of all taxes), according to the All India Sarafa Association. The white metal had
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