New Delhi: Banks across India will stay open on Saturday, May 31, as it is the fifth Saturday of the month.According to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) guidelines, banks are closed on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month, in addition to all Sundays. However, on the first, third, and fifth Saturdays, banks…
Mumbai: Instead of relocating slums from Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) forest land, Mumbai suburban MLAs want the land to be declared as non-forest.On Friday, BJP MLC and group leader in the state legislative council, Pravin Darekar, moved a resolution that residents of Ketkipada in Dahisar and all other surrounding areas right up to Dindoshi…
NEW DELHI: EaseMyTrip reported strong growth in the fourth quarter of FY25, with Gross Booking Revenue at Rs 2,192.7 crore and operational revenue at Rs 139.5 crore, according to its financial report.For the full year ending March 31, 2025, EaseMyTrip achieved a total Gross Booking Revenue of Rs 8,691.6 crore, whilst operational revenue reached Rs…
NEW DELHI: In a span of just a month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has twice taken top central government bureaucrats and state chief secretaries by surprise by flagging public grievances that had reached him directly.On April 30, secretaries and chief secretaries attending a meeting under Pragati — the performance audit PM holds periodically — were…
President Donald Trump on Friday (local time) claimed that the United States is “very close to making a deal with India,” adding that a representative from Pakistan is expected to visit Washington for talks next week.“Pakistan representatives are coming in next week. We’re very close to making a deal with India,” Trump told reporters at…
MUMBAI: The city’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW), probing the multi-crore Mithi River desilting scam, said that Rs 18 lakh were received by UBO Ridez, a company where actor Dino Morea’s brother, Santino, is a director, from arrested accused Ketan Kadam.“We are probing why the amount was transferred from Kadam’s account to UBO Ridez,” said an…
NEW DELHI: India is broadening its efforts to develop AI foundation models. After Sarvam AI, the government on Friday selected three more teams – Soket AI, Gan AI, and Gnani AI – for building indigenous AI models. IT and electronics minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the country has 367 data sets loaded on AI Kosh. “So…
NEW DELHI: An email threat received by secretary, ministry of heavy industries warning of the use of “suicide IEDs” in Udyog Bhavan, prompted an alert on Friday afternoon, though a search mounted by the Delhi Police and CISF eventually found it to be a hoax. Udyog Bhawan is located in a high-security area of the…
NEW DELHI: Vodafone Idea on Friday reported a loss of Rs 7,166 crore for the fourth quarter of the last fiscal, against Rs 7,675 crore in the same period of 2023-24. The company’s board also approved raising of Rs 20,000 crore to fund expansion.The company, reeling under a debt pile of over Rs 2 lakh…
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party MP Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday slammed Pakistani nationals who demonstrated against India outside a venue in Copenhagen hosting an Indian parliamentary delegation and said that Pakistan is a desperate country, and they protest out of desperation. Addressing the Indian diaspora in Copenhagen, the BJP MP said that the Pakistanis…
