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Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das delivers the Monetary Policy statement, in Mumbai. File photo | Photo Credit: PTI The Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) on Wednesday (October 9, 2024) decided to keep the policy repo rate unchanged at 6.50% for the 10th consecutive time. Of the six members of…
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The Monetary Policy Committee had last changed the key interest rate in February 2023. New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has kept its key interest rate unchanged for the tenth consecutive time, its governor Shaktikanta Das announced today. A six-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) headed by Mr Das kept the repo rate unchanged…
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Black-necked cranes are usually seen in pairs (Credit: Niazul Khan, BNHS) Hanle, Ladakh: The endangered black-necked cranes have been sighted high in the Himalayan wetlands at Hanle in Ladakh at about 4,500 meters altitude. These migratory birds that breed in the Himalayas are listed in Schedule I of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972, thereby…
England cricket team star batter Joe Root scripted history by achieving a mammoth feat on Day 2 of the first Test match against Pakistan in Multan on Tuesday. Root became the first batter in history to score 5000 runs in the World Test Championship (WTC) as he slammed 32 off 54 deliveries with…
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File picture of Saudi painter Omar Binladin, the fourth-eldest son of former Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, and his wife Zaina, at an exhibition of his artworks at the “Arielle Brocante”, in Le Teilleul, France | Photo Credit: AFP A son of Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden has been barred from returning to France,…
Under the AFSPA, an area is declared “disturbed” for the convenience of security forces. Guwahati: The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act or AFSPA was extended in four districts of Assam for six months in view of the “recent disturbances” in Bangladesh and its potentially inimical effect on the internal law and order situation, according to…
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The FBI has arrested an Afghan man who officials say was inspired by the Islamic State militant organisation and was plotting an Election Day attack targeting large crowds in the U.S., the Justice Department said on Tuesday, October 8, 2024. Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, of Oklahoma City told investigators after his arrest Monday (October 7)…
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Representative illustration. | Photo Credit: Growtika/Unsplash The story so far: On October 8, John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize for physics “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”. Their work lies at the roots of a large tree of work, the newest branches of which…
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Pakistan vs England Live Score 1st Test Day 3© AFP Pakistan vs England Live Score 1st Test Day 3: England will resume at 96/1 on Day 3 of the 1st Test, trailing Pakistan by 460 runs in Multan. Zak Crawley‘s run-a-ball unbeaten 64 gave England a strong start after Pakistan posted a mammoth 556…
You can kill a revolutionary, not the revolution: Lebanon envoy to India Cites Mahatma Gandhi Following Israel’s announcement of the killing of Hassan Nasrallah’s successors, Lebanon’s Ambassador to India Rabie Narsh cites Mahatma Gandhi’s words and says Hezbollah is a legitimate political party supported by the people and cannot be eliminated. “I am reminded of…