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More often than not, political developments in Assam have an instant ripple effect on neighbouring West Bengal. With the unsettling effect of the Assam NRC updating exercise on Bengal and other states still continuing, another administrative decision announced in Guwahati has set Muslims elsewhere restive and uneasy. First out-of-state reactions from the community have just been made from Kolkata.

Many people are writing off the Grand Old Party, the 135-year-old Indian National Congress, after its poor performance in the recent Delhi polls, as it has suffered one set back after the other since 2014, despite some good patches in between. Can the Congress with such long history disappear? Will the Congress really perish or it will survive? It is for the millions of Congressmen to answer.

WASHINGTON—Congressional Democrats, progressive groups, and defenders of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid all blasted President Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts for the fiscal year that starts October 1.

The outbreak of the coronavirus, coupled with record valuations in equity markets, has triggered a global sell-off of high-risk investments and a significant shift in sentiment among global investors. Accompanying the dip is a well-reported surge into traditional safe-haven assets such as gold. As global investors remain concerned that the virus could become far more globally significant, inflows into gold exchange traded funds are 30% higher than last year. Other low-risk investments have reported similar inflows of capital.

The daily average consumption levels of visible fat (added fat) in Delhi and Ahmedabad was highest among the seven metro cities in India and the lowest in Hyderabad, according to a special analysis carried out by Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Nutrition (ICMR-NIN) from the database of National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau (NNMB) study (2015-16), ICMR-NIN-Hyd. The analysis was supported by International Life Sciences Institute -India (ILSI - India).

New Delhi: India will host the Junior men's hockey World Cup for the record third time in a row in 2021.

Bellary: As part of the High Performance partnership between the JSW Group and the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI), 11 members of the Indian senior shooting squad completed a 5-day training-cum-conditioning camp at the Inspire Institute of Sport (IIS) on Sunday.

New Delhi: Most of the talented football players in the country have risen from the northeastern states, Kerala and West Bengal over the years. However, ahead of the Khelo India University Games (KIUG), the tide seems to have change.

NEW DELHI: November 2020 will mark a memorable chapter in India's footballing history as the nation hosts the FIFA U17 Women's World Cup and among the coaches that will prepare the Indian side for the challenge will be a Nigerian legend, Precious Dede.

Ignorance may be a bliss for India’s most know-all politicians in power. Otherwise, how else could a top functionary in the government advise the country’s poor fixed depositors with banks and post offices to invest in stock market for better returns? To many, such a suggestion may sound too casual, if not frivolous, considering the fact that the country is among the world’s poorest by per capita income and few have money to buy even 100 shares of seemingly ‘safe’ blue chip companies enjoying among the highest profit-earning (PE) ratio in global stock markets. Imagine one investing Rs.7,000 in 10 shares, having a face value of Rs. 10 each, of a reliably good blue chip company to earn say only Rs. 70 as annual dividend. Dividend is paid on nominal value and not market value of shares. A shareholder can make or lose money on investment from trading, depending on the market price of the share on a day, for which the investor has to keep an eye on daily stock price movements. Seemingly, the political functionary’s response followed a serious public concern over continuous rate cuts by the country’s central bank totally ignoring the growing consumer inflation rates. Falling bank rates brought no positive impact on industrial output or the economic growth rate.