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Indian companies will spend 100 billion rupees ($1.35 billion) over three years on 1,000 liquefied natural gas (LNG) stations along main roads and industrial corridors and in mining areas, the oil minister said on Thursday, to cut diesel consumption.

Rani Laxmi Bai's childhood was spent in the household of the Peshwa ruler Baji Rao II. With an unusual childhood for a girl in the nineteenth century, she grew up in the company of boys in the Peshwa’s court and was trained in sword fighting and horse-rid...

Most Asian stock markets followed Wall Street lower on Thursday as anxiety about the economic fallout from rising coronavirus infections in the United States and Europe clashed with optimism about a possible vaccine.

Delhi's air quality index was recorded at 272 at 9 am.The 24-hour average AQI was 211 on Wednesday and 171 on Tuesday.

A Russian regional governor's decision to be treated for COVID19 in a private Moscow clinic rather than in his own region drew public criticism on Wednesday, as Russia reported a new record daily high of 456 coronavirusrelated deaths.

Moody's said India and Indonesia are DBS' core foreign markets where it is actively growing its digital banking services, and had more than 3 million digital bank customers in these two markets at the end of 2019.

After touching its lifetime intra-day high of 44,215.49, the 30-share BSE benchmark ended 227.34 points or 0.52 per cent higher at its record closing of 44,180.05.

At the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the SGPC-run langar feeds 50,000 devotees on an average during weekdays and almost double of that during holidays and weekends.

IBPS will conduct the CRP clerk 2020 prelims exam on December 5, 12 and 13 while the mains exam is scheduled to be conducted tentatively on February 28. The last date to apply for the IBPS clerk exam 2020 was November 6.

The cross-border firing in the border outpost areas of Satpal, Manyari, Karol Krishna and Gurnam started at 9:10 pm on Tuesday, prompting strong and effective retaliation from the Border Security Force (BSF), the officials said.

Russia says as of November 16 more than 33,000 people have died of Covid-19. But that number is disputed by critics who say the Kremlin is underreporting the numbers.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc is preparing for a second round of job cuts, three months after it began eliminating around 400 positions, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.

As the nation rebuilds post pandemic, PM Modi said COVID-19 has given governments the chance to accelerate the 'process of making cities more liveable for people'.

Sisodia's comments came after the AAP government sent a proposal in this regard to the Centre, with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal mulling shutting down markets that have a "potential of becoming hotspots".

In August, the central bank had announced that it will set up the Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH) to promote innovation across the financial sector by leveraging on technology and creating an environment that would facilitate and foster innovation.

Citing the latest data, which is yet to be made public, the minister said that yesterday (November 16), more than 50,000 tests have been conducted and positivity ratio is less than 13%. The Delhi government would be releasing the data later in the day.