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Banks in India wrote off bad loans totaling more than ₹2.09 lakh crore during the FY23, according to information obtained through Right to Information (RTI) queries. This brings the total loan write-offs by the banking sector to a significant ₹10.57 lakh crore in the past five years, as per data provided by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Loan write-offs by banks increased to ₹209,144 crore

New Delhi, July 23: The Narendra Modi government has spent Rs 3,064.42 crore on advertisement and publicity for its schemes and programmes since 2018-19 with print media topping the list, though the overall advertisement budget has shown a decline. The data provided by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in Rajya Sabha last week showed that the government spent Rs 1,338.56 crore in print

Imphal, July 23: The ethnic violence in Manipur that erupted on May 3 and has left over 160 dead has been largely fuelled by rumours and fake news, according to officials from various security agencies who have been monitoring the situation in the restive northeastern state. The despicable May 4 incident in Kangpokpi district, where two women were paraded naked and assaulted by several people, was

Unimaginable stories of horror from Manipur have continued to jolt the rest of the country as the ethnic clashes in the northeast state have turned inhumane. Days after the viral video of two tribal women being paraded naked by a mob, another shocking report has appeared. According to a report, the wife of a freedom fighter was burnt alive inside her house in Kakching district's Serou village

Bengaluru, July 22: Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar today said that the government of Karnataka was read to set up a separate department to address the problems of non-resident Indians across the world. Speaking at an event organised to present the 'State Export Excellence Awards' organised by the Department of Commerce and Industry and the Visvesvaraya Trade Promotion Centre (VTPC), he said

Mangaluru, July 22: BJP Karnataka State President and Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel has urged the Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to name the popular trains of the city after eminent personalities and places of coastal Karnataka. In a letter to the minister, he proposed new names for the trains that run through the region. The MP made a proposal to name the Bengaluru-Mangaluru

Imphal, July 22: On the same day two tribal women were stripped, paraded and allegedly gang raped by a mob in Manipur in an incident that has triggered massive outrage, at least two other young women from the state's Kangpokpi district were brutally assaulted and murdered amidst a wave of ethnic violence that is yet to abate. The victims, aged 21 and 24, were working at a car wash in the Konung

New Delhi, July 22: There is a long list of heinous crimes against women in Opposition-ruled states such as Rajasthan, West Bengal and Bihar, but it is playing politics over the Manipur incident, the BJP alleged on Saturday. Tension mounted in the hills of strife-torn Manipur after a May 4 video surfaced on Wednesday showing two women from one of the warring communities being paraded naked by a

Mangaluru, July 22: The Karnataka state unit of Congress has decided to launch protests at block and district levels with the slogan ‘BJP hatao, beti bachao’ to condemn the incident of tribal women being paraded naked by BJP supporters in Manipur. KPCC spokesperson AC Vinayaraj said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s silence in the sexual harassment case related to Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, Hathras

Mangaluru, July 22: In a fresh case of communal vigilantism, a boy student of a private medical college here was assaulted by a gang of youths after following him on motorcycles. A complaint filed at the Urwa police station here said the gang followed two boys and four girls of the college who had been to Panambur beach together on Friday evening. The boys accompanying the girls were from