Shiv Nadar, founder-chairman of HCL Technologies, has emerged as India’s most generous businessman, donating Rs 2,042 crore in the last financial year. That’s an average of Rs 5.6 crore per day and 76 per cent more than the amount he donated in FY22, when he gave away upwards of Rs 3 crore per day on average.

Israeli troops advanced toward Gaza City Thursday, as the Palestinian death toll rose above 9,000. With no end in sight after weeks of heavy fighting, US and Arab mediators intensified efforts to ease Israel's siege of the Hamas-ruled enclave and called for at least a brief halt to the hostilities in order to aid civilian.

The Uttar Pradesh government has received 76,000 applications so far under the PM Vishwakarma Scheme, launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 17 this year

The Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau Thursday arrested an Enforcement Directorate (ED) officer, posted in Manipur, and his associate here for allegedly taking a bribe of `15 lakh for settling a matter related to a chit fund case

The Supreme Court Collegium Thursday recommended the elevation of Patna High Court judge Justice Chakradhari Sharan Singh as the Chief Justice of Orissa High Court.

CM Naveen Patnaik sanctions `306 crore for development of Ganjam & Subarnapur under ‘Ama Odisha Nabin Odisha’

TMC MP Mahua Moitra, along with other Opposition members, storms out of the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee meet, Thursday.

Pakistan’s general elections will be held February 8, according to an announcement.

India’s unemployment rate climbed to the highest in more than two years in October as joblessness in rural areas witnessed a sharp rise, prompting Opposition Congress to launch a frontal attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, claiming his enduring legacy as PM is record unemployment.

The Odisha Film Development Corporation (OFDC) Thursday held a meeting headed by Chairman Kuna Tripathy to resolve the ongoing dispute between Manoj Mishra and film producers who have banned the actor for two years in the Odia film industry.

Hours after a 14-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Jatni area of Khurda, the twin city Commissionerate Police Thursday claimed that a Plus II student killed the schoolboy over payment of coaching fee to the latter’s father, a tutor.

As many as 60 girl students have lodged a complaint of sexual assault against the principal of a senior secondary girls’ school in Haryana’s Jind.

Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav has said that if the INDIA alliance materialises in Uttar Pradesh, his party would contest 65 of the 80 seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and leave 15 for the alliance partners.

Onion prices touched Rs 100 a kilogram in a number of retail markets in Kolkata on Thursday.

The Archaeological Survey of India on Thursday told a Varanasi court that it has “completed” the survey of the Gyanvapi mosque complex and is granted additional time till November 17 to submit its report.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Thursday did not appear before the Enforcement Directorate for questioning in a case linked to the now scrapped Delhi excise policy and wrote to the Central agency demanding the “recall” of its summons to him, calling it “vague, motivated and unsustainable in law”

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Thursday blamed the Congress’ preoccupation with assembly polls in five states for the INDIA coalition’s inability to build on the momentum it had gained in recent months.

People can send their Rs 2,000 banknotes to specified regional offices of the Reserve Bank through the insured post for credit in their bank accounts.

Billionaire Gautam Adani’s group has acquired the remaining 51 per cent stake in Quintillion Business Media Pvt Ltd to take full control of the Raghav Bahl-curated digital business news platform for an undisclosed amount.

The iconic Wankhede Stadium here as the hosts became the first team to secure a berth in the semifinals of the ongoing ICC World Cup courtesy their massive 302- run victory over Sri Lanka.