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Jun 6: There is no bilateral meeting planned between the prime ministers of India and Pakistan at a regional summit next week, India's foreign ministry spokesman Rajeev Kumar said on Thursday. India's Narendra Modi and Pakistan's Imran Khan are both scheduled to attend a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Kyrgyzstan on June 13-14. More details are awaited...

Mumbai, Jun 6: The Reserve Bank of India on Thursday said it has done away with charges on fund transfers through RTGS and NEFT routes to boost digital transactions and asked banks to pass on the benefits to customers. The Real Time Gross Settlement System (RTGS) is meant for large-value instantaneous fund transfers while the National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) System is used for fund

Kolkata, Jun 6: Bangladeshi film actress Anju Ghosh joined the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) in presence of the party's state president Dilip Ghosh in Kolkata today. During the event, Ghosh was handed over a BJP flag. When asked by the media about her present citizenship status, she refused to speak. In 1989, her film ''Beder Meye Josna'' (Josna, the gypsey daughter) made a record of being the

New Delhi, Jun 6: A large majority of people in India have recognised that the country's stature in the world has risen in the last five years, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said here on Thursday. Addressing a gathering at a seminar, Jaishankar said a "global rebalancing" is taking place and the "sharpest manifestation" of that is the rise of China and to an extent, the rise of India as

Jun 6: The Reserve Bank of India is likely to cement its position as Asia’s most dovish central bank with a third straight interest-rate cut Thursday. The six-member monetary policy committee led by Governor Shaktikanta Das will reduce the repurchase rate by 25 basis points to 5.75 per cent on Thursday, say 31 of 43 economists surveyed by Bloomberg, while three are penciling in a 50 basis points

New Delhi, Jun 6: Among the eight key Cabinet committees reconstituted by the Centre on Wednesday, Home minister Amit Shah finds representation in all of them while Prime Minister is on-board 6 committees barring Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs and Cabinet Committee on Accommodation. The lone Cabinet Committee having only Prime Minister Modi and home minister Shah on board is

Sitapur, Jun 5: BJP parliamentarian Sakshi Maharaj on Wednesday visited party colleague and lawmaker Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who is lodged in jail over charges of rape and murder. "He is lodged in the jail for a long time. Sengar is one of the most popular lawmakers so I came to thank him after the elections," the BJP leader told reporters. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in its charge

New Delhi, Jun 5: A motorist rammed his car into devotees emerging from a mosque in Delhi's Khureji area on Wednesday but police said no one was injured, denying their own earlier claim that many suffered injuries. A Delhi Police statement said the claim that 17 people were injured was incorrect. "We have realised that the number of injured reported in the incident was not correct and the police

Kozhikode, Jun 5: The police on Wednesday took Badal, an inspector of the Central Excise, into custody, for threatening Union Minister of State V Muraleedharan. Badal is reported to have called the Calicut City Police Commissioner and expressed caution of life threat on the Union Minister. Police sources said the special branch of police is questioning the CE officer

New Delhi, Jun 5: The World Bank retained its forecast of India's growth rate at 7.5 per cent for the current financial year. In its Global Economic Prospects report, the World Bank also said growth rate is expected to remain the same for the next two fiscals. "In India, growth is projected at 7.5 per cent in FY2019/20 (April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020), unchanged from the previous forecast, and to