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The reforms are necessary to ensure growth of the banking government without the periodic boom-bust cycles, said a paper co-authored by Rajan and former Reserve Bank Deputy Governor Viral Acharya.

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Monday met the family of aslain Kirti Chakra awardee soldier from Kangra district who reached Raj Bhavan here to return the gallantry award to the Governor as they blamed successive state governments for f...

Additional Chief Secretary (Health) R D Dhiman said that test report of samples collected form Sharma earlier found her to be COVID-19 positive.

Agra's Taj Mahal was opened to tourists on Monday after 188 days of its COVID-19-led closure. The Taj Mahal and Agra Fort were closed to tourists from March 17 amid the COVID-19 outbreak in the country.

The apex child rights body NCPCR has launched a toll-free tele-counselling helpline number 1800-121-2830 for children affected during COVID-19 for providing counselling and psycho-social support. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (...

The Supreme Court Monday agreed to hear a plea which has sought directions to the Centre, all states and Union Territories (UTs) to forthwith re-open all Anganwadi centres in the country which were closed amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The apex court issue...

Rome (AP) Top-seeded Simona Halep won her first Italian Open title on Monday when Karolna Plkov retired midway through the final with an injury. Halep was leading 6-0, 2-1 when Plkov stopped playing..

India has raised the price it will pay to buy newseason wheat from local farmers by 2.6% to 1,975 rupees per 100 kg, Farm Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said, to placate farmers and encourage them to step up planting that begins next month.

All opposition parties should come together and fight these bills tooth and nail, said Banerjee who is also the Trinamool Congress supremo.

Unless small and marginal farmers are organised as cooperatives or producers’ groups, they will fail to benefit from such big reforms, says Dr T Haque.

The Goa Lokayukta has ordered the state police's Anti-Corruption Bureau to start an inquiry into alleged irregularities in the purchase of dustbins for installation at beaches. The order came after a petition by Inacio Domnick Pereira who claimed that R...

The death toll due to COVID-19 in Uttar Pradesh rose to 5,135 on Monday with 88 more fatalities, while 4,703 fresh cases pushed the infection tally in the state to 3,58,893, officials said. Briefing reporters here, Additional Chief Secretary (Medical...

Lieutenant Kumudini Tyagi and Sub Lieutenant Riti Singh in effect be the first set of women airborne combatants who would be operating helicopters from warships. Earlier, entry of women was restricted to the fixed wing aircraft that took off and landed as...

Khalid is in police custody for 10 days, till September 24, in a case related to the large conspiracy in the communal violence in north east Delhi in February.

There are many reasons for the rise in the number of Covid-19 cases in rural districts – easing of lockdown restrictions, the opening of the economy, return of migrant workers to their villages, to name a few.

Coaches of youth teams in India must be process-oriented and need to work on developing talents instead of being result oriented, ISL team Chennaiyin FC's new head coach Csaba Laszlo said. "For India, it is important to have professional and forward-th...