India

New Delhi, Aug 3: India’s biggest automaker, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, said it had cut the number of its temporary workers to cope with a slowdown in auto sales, adding to the jobless problem in Asia’s third largest economy. The vehicle industry, accounting for nearly half of India’s manufacturing output, is facing one of its worst slowdowns in nearly a decade, with vehicle sales falling rapidly

Mumbai, Aug 3: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a penalty ranging between Rs one crore to two crore on eight government-owned banks for violating norms on fraud classification, bill discounting and monitoring of end use of funds. Bank of Baroda, Bank of India, Indian Overseas Bank and Union Bank of India were fined Rs 1.5 crore each while Allahabad Bank and Bank of Maharashtra were

New Delhi, Aug 2: The Lok Sabha on Friday passed a Bill which seeks to do away with the automatic nomination of Congress Cresident as trustee of the Jallianwala Bagh Memorial trust as the party staged a walkout in protest. The Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial (Amendment) Bill, 2019 was moved by Culture Minister Prahlad Singh Patel, who said there should not be politicisation of institutions but

Srinagar, Aug 2: The Jammu and Kashmir government on Friday asked Amarnath Yatris and tourists to immediately make necessary arrangements to cut short their stay in the Valley and return as soon as possible in the wake of intelligence inputs of "specific terror threats" to the pilgrimage. The Principal Secretary (Home) issued a security advisory, saying pilgrims and tourists "may curtail their

New Delhi, Aug 2: A Bill amending the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 that allows the government to tag individuals as terrorists was passed by the Rajya Sabha on Friday after an attempt by opposition parties to send it to a House panel was defeated. After a division was called for by some members, 147 members voted in favour of the Bill and 42 against. The Lok Sabha has already passed

New Delhi, Aug 2: The home ministry on Friday said the deployment of paramilitary forces in Jammu and Kashmir was based on the security situation there and requirements of rotation, and that such things are not discussed in the public domain. Over 280 companies of security forces are in the process of being deployed in the Kashmir valley, official sources said. "Based on the assessment of the

New Delhi, Aug 2: The UK and France have toppled India from the position of the fifth-largest economy in 2018, according to data compiled by the World Bank. Earlier data had shown that India had become the sixth largest economy in 2017, pushing France to the seventh place. However, the latest data showed that India had in fact become the fifth-largest economy that year, ahead of even the UK. In

Mumbai, Aug 1: Bombay High Court on Thursday adjourned the hearing on Lt Col Prasad Purohit's plea challenging the validity of prosecution sanction for his trial under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). The High Court adjourned the hearing till August 7. Lt Col Purohit had moved an application in Bombay High Court challenging a special NIA court's order rejecting his plea against the

New Delhi, Aug 1: The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment (UAPA) Bill is "a dangerous piece of legislation" and will be used against the BJP's ideological opponents, the CPI-M has said. The UAPA Amendment Bill has been passed by the Lok Sabha and is now being considered in the Rajya Sabha. An editorial in the CPI-M journal "People's Democracy" said that along with the National Investigation

New Delhi, Aug 1: The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the transfer of all five cases registered in connection with the Unnao rape incident from a court in Uttar Pradesh to a court in the national capital. The apex court also directed the Uttar Pradesh government to provide Rs 25 lakh to the rape survivor as interim compensation. Besides, it directed the CBI to complete within seven days the