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RBI keeps policy repo rate unchanged at 4%. Signs of economic recovery far from broad-based, said RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das. This is the third time that the RBI has maintained status quo. Das also said that the central bank will continue the accomodative stance as long as needed, implying more rate cuts in the future if need arises to support the economy hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. The

London, Dec 4: Haseeb Hameed paid tribute to India captain Virat Kohli for inspiring a revival that the England top-order batsman hopes will see him regain his Test place. Hameed signed a new contract with English county side Nottinghamshire on Thursday that is set to keep him with the Midlands club until the end of the 2022 season. He scored three half-centuries in five Bob Willis Trophy matches

Bengaluru, Dec 4: Karnataka registered 1,446 new Covid cases while 894 recovered in a day, taking its Covid tally to 8,89,113, including 24,689 active cases on Wednesday, said the state health bulletin on Thursday. "With 894 patients discharged during the day, 8,52,584 recovered across the southern state so far, while 11,821 died of the infection, including 13 in the last 24 hours," said the

Darbhanga, Dec 3: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday conducted raids at the residential premises of Popular Front of India (PFI) district president Muhammad Sanaullah in connection with an alleged money laundering case. This comes as PFI members have been named in several violence cases and illegal protest cases across the country, including violence in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh during the

Chennai, Dec 3: Putting an end to all speculations, actor-turned-politician Rajnikanth on Thursday announced that he would launch his political party in January 2021, months ahead of the Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu. He said an official declaration regarding the same will be made on December 31. In a brief statement released on Twitter, Rajinikanth said that his party would fight the Assembly

Udupi, Dec 3: Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Thuraday said that the state government has no intention of imposing night curfew in the state again. Speaking to reporters here on Thursday, Mr Bommai said the Covid-19 Technical Advisory Committee has suggested precautionary measures such as not allowing large gathering. He said all preventive measures are possible without imposing the

Mumbai, Dec 3: Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami on Thursday filed an urgent application before the Bombay High Court, seeking a stay to the filing of charge sheet and further proceedings in the 2018 Anvay Naik abetment to suicide case. Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, who ordered re-investigation by the state CID, had no power to do so as the previous probe by the Alibaug police

Udupi, Dec 3: Anti-conversion laws introduced in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh are being studied in Karnataka to bring out a new legislation to prohibit religious conversion for the sake of marriage in the state, said home minister Basavaraj Bommai. Speaking to reporters here today, he said Karnataka is gearing up for a law against love jihad. “When UP, MP and Haryana governments proposed laws

Bengaluru, Dec 3: Karnataka Agriculture Minister B C Patil on Thursday said the farmers who commit suicide are cowards. "The farmers who commit suicide are cowards. Only a coward who can't take care of his wife and children commits suicide. When we have fallen (in the water), we have to swim and win," Patil said addressing farmers at Ponnampet in Kodagu district of Karnataka. The minister was

Bengaluru, Dec 3: Graded opening of schools from January may be considered after carefully assessing the pandemic situation in the last week of December, the state’s Covid-19 technical advisory committee (TAC) told the government. If the government accepts this recommendation and the pandemic situation is favourable, then schools will first reopen for classes 10 and 12. “Classes 9 and 11 can