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What the GDP numbers reveal

India, Jan. 8 -- India's GDP growth is expected to be 7.4% in 2025-26, the National Statistics Office (NSO) said in its first advance estimates released on Wednesday. This is pretty much on expected l... Read More


Delhi demolition drive: Samajwadi Party MP 'present' before clashes near mosque under scanner

India, Jan. 8 -- Samajwadi Party MP Mohibbullah Nadvi is under scanner after clashes and stone pelting near Faiz-e-Elahi Masjid in Delhi. The clashes broke out due to a late night demolition drive by ... Read More


Azizur Rahman Musabbir, leader of BNP's volunteer wing, shot dead near hotel in Dhaka

India, Jan. 8 -- Azizur Rahman Musabbir, leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party's (BNP) volunteer wing Swechhasebak Dal, was shot dead in Dhaka by unidentified assailants who shot another man, leaving... Read More


Learning from Singapore to realise Viksit Bharat

India, Jan. 8 -- To many Indians, Singapore represents the ideal of what successful development looks like. At the time of Singapore's independence in 1965, its per capita GDP was roughly four times t... Read More


Reimagining India's civil aviation in 2026

India, Jan. 8 -- The year gone by will go down in history as a tragic year for Indian aviation. The question before us is: Do we as a nation brood over the past or look ahead to rectify what's broken?... Read More


Two booked for axing, pruning trees in Ludhiana

Ludhiana, Jan. 8 -- Two residents have been booked in separate cases for illegal pruning and axing of trees in the city on the complaint of the municipal corporation's horticulture wing. In the past f... Read More


Facing blanket shortage, hygiene issues: School Games participants

Ludhiana, Jan. 8 -- Players participating in the 69th National School Games in the district are battling harsh winter conditions, with many saying the biting cold is affecting both their comfort and p... Read More


Mohali: Partial blockade at YPS Chowk continues as Qaumi Insaaf Morcha completes 3 years of protest

Mohali, Jan. 8 -- The Qaumi Insaaf Morcha on Wednesday completed three years of its sit-in protest at Yadavindra Public School (YPS) Chowk on the Chandigarh-Mohali border, with the stretch continuing ... Read More


Supreme Court 'thoroughly disappointed' with the Madhya Pradesh HC for rejecting bail plea without recording reasons

New Delhi, Jan. 8 -- The Supreme Court has suspended the seven-year jail term of a man convicted of counterfeiting currency, saying it was "thoroughly disappointed" with the Madhya Pradesh High Court ... Read More


Ludhiana: Kin cremate slain ex-kabaddi player after arrest of five

Ludhiana, Jan. 8 -- Two days after the daylight murder of former kabaddi player Gagandeep Singh, 36, in Manuke village of Jagraon, the grieving family on Wednesday performed his last rites finally ami... Read More