Today News Report

MUMBAI: The rupee weakened on Friday due to dollar demand from maturing offshore positions and corporate hedging. It closed at 90.16 per dollar, 14 paise down from its previous close. Falling equities added to the pressure. Elevated dollar demand weighed intraday, though sporadic dollar sales near the lows capped losses and kept sentiment cautious.“The rupee…

NEW DELHI: Iran has backed the Chabahar port and cooperation with India amid the uncertainty looming over the project because of ongoing US efforts to isolate Iran, including the Trump administration’s decision last year to revoke a sanctions waiver that allowed India to develop a terminal at the port. While Washington extended the waiver till…

NEW DELHI: Pearl Agro Corp Ltd, a multi-level marketing firm that promised plot allotments to lakhs across the country and deceived investors and regulators for nearly two decades, raised more than Rs 60,000 crore and siphoned off most of it into personal assets in India and abroad, according to an ED probe report. On Sunday,…

NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi will address the international conference on India’s manuscript heritage on Friday and also launch the ‘Gyan Bharatam’ portal, a dedicated digital platform to accelerate manuscript digitisation, preservation and public access.The PMO highlighted the three-day conference, which began on Thursday under the theme ‘Reclaiming India’s Knowledge Legacy through Manuscript Heritage’, will…