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Strong government, weak opposition

Kathmandu, March 30 -- In the general elections held on March 5, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) bagged a staggering 182 seats in the 275-member House of Representatives. The RSP's landslide victor... Read More


NRI groom, 'airport officer' con 29-year-old Mumbra banker of rRs.r6.75 lakh in marriage scam

India, March 30 -- A 29-year-old Mumbra woman, a bank employee posted in Dadar, was lured into a carefully scripted cyber trap and cheated of Rs.6.75 lakh by frauds posing as a UK-based NRI groom and ... Read More


Maharashtra police record 81% reduction in response time to 112 helpline

India, March 30 -- Over the last five years, the Maharashtra police have reduced their response time to the national emergency response number 112 by 81%, said officials. In 2021, when the helpline nu... Read More


Punjab: Relative among two held for making rRs.r2-cr extortion call to elderly NRI couple

Jalandhar, March 30 -- Days after an elderly NRI couple received a Rs.2 crore extortion call from a person claiming to be associated with gangster Goldy Brar, Jalandhar police arrested two, including ... Read More


Listing boosts Orkla India's appeal for talent and acquisitions: CEO Sharma

New Delhi, March 30 -- Norwegian consumer goods major Orkla, which owns Indian spice brands such as MTR and Eastern, is seeing growing opportunities for talent acquisition and mergers and acquisitions... Read More


Indian seafarers recount captivity, fear and release after Iranian detention

India, March 30 -- Venkatrao Jammu realised the brutal reality of an Iranian prison not through a warning, but through absence. One morning at Bandar Abbas City Central Jail, the 35-year-old third off... Read More


Take the oil! Trump signals interest in seizing Iran's Kharg Island as war tensions escalate

New Delhi, March 30 -- US President Donald Trump has said he would like to "take the oil in Iran" and suggested that the United States could seize the key export hub of Kharg Island, according to an i... Read More


Living in the dark shadow of the bullet train

India, March 30 -- While the under-construction Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed railway (MAHSR), better known as the bullet train project, may well benefit commuters in future, it has caused grief to many... Read More


India can build serious AI with less capital than frontier labs: Peak XV's Ravishankar

New Delhi, March 30 -- India may still trail the US and China in artificial intelligence (AI), but it can indeed build strong companies in the technology a fraction of the spending of the world's top ... Read More


IFC to up India investments 30% to $7 bn this fiscal, focus on local push, jobs

New Delhi, March 30 -- International Finance Corp. (IFC) aims to scale up its India investments by about 30% to $7 billion this fiscal year ending 30 June, said Sarvesh Suri, regional vice-president f... Read More