NEW DELHI: Telecom regulator Trai and the department of telecom (DoT) are at loggerheads over fixation of satcom spectrum charges for the companies and other critical matters at a time when satcom players, such as Elon Musk’s Starlink and Sunil Mittal’s Bharti group-backed Eutelsat OneWeb wait for regulatory clarity before beginning commercial services in India,…
Home loan borrowers are set to get relief as several major banks have started cutting lending rates after the Reserve Bank of India lowered the repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.25% on December 5, 2025. Following the repo rate cut from 5.50%, lenders have moved to reduce MCLR-, RLLR- and RBLR-linked rates, paving…
Cracking knuckles creates a gas cavity in fluid; it makes noise but causes no damage Nearly everyone who cracks their knuckles has heard the same warning at some point: keep doing that and your hands will grow, your joints will suffer, and arthritis will follow. The habit has long carried a reputation for causing damage,…
All major political parties in Kashmir held protests and demonstrations, carrying banners and raising slogans describing Aug 5, 2019, as a ‘black day’ SRINAGAR/JAMMU: Striking a poetic note on the seventh anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of the state of Jammu & Kashmir into two Union Territories, chief minister Omar Abdullah…
Mukerjee will now succeed Vineet Joshi, who was last month appointed as secretary, Panchayati Raj (File photo) NEW DELHI: In a late-night bureaucratic reshuffle Monday, govt appointed Deepti Gaur Mukerjee, a 1993-batch IAS from the Madhya Pradesh cadre as new higher education secretary. This comes barely three weeks after Naresh Pal Gangwar, a Rajasthan cadre…
It’s the fourth week of December. It is the last and final chance to look at your financial to-do list for 2025.A pension scheme you picked years ago pops up with a deadline. A tax return you meant to revise “next weekend” is now starting on December 31. And in the background, PAN-Aadhaar compliance still…
Bhojshala complex row: SC asks govt to provide nearby site with ‘mutual consent’ for Friday namaz NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Madhya Pradesh government to make suitable arrangements for members of the Muslim community to offer Friday prayers at a site adjacent to the disputed Bhojshala-Kamal Maula complex in Dhar. The…
The Reserve Bank’s rate-setting panel began its two-day deliberations on Wednesday, with markets closely watching whether borrowing costs could fall further amid supportive macro conditions and improving sentiment.The six-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), headed by RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra, started discussions on the next set of bi-monthly interest rates against the backdrop of a growth-focused…
Stock market today: Indian benchmarks began the week in red, as benchmark indices Nifty50 opened below 25,700 and Sensex was down over 300 points, on Monday. The indices came under pressure as persistent selling persisted, with investors remaining cautious due to ongoing unrest in Iran and rising crude oil prices.NSE benchmark Nifty50 was trading at…
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck southern Iran at 7.13 am (local time) on Thursday, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences said. The quake was recorded at a depth of 10 km, with its epicentre located at 27.36 degrees north latitude and 52.60 degrees east longitude.This is a developing story Source link