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India's counter response shows country won't be coerced by anybody: EAM

India's counter response to terrorism emanating from Pakistan and to aggressive cross-border skirmish with China displayed that the nation will not be coerced by anybody, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday. He added that the country will do everything to ensure its security. The Balakot air strikes conducted by the Air Force in response to the Pulwama terror attack had sent the much-needed message across, he said referring to the incident in 2019. "On the northern borders, China is today seeking to change the status quo by bringing in large forces and violating our borders. Despite COVID-19, our counter response was strong and firm. Our troops deployed in thousands safeguarded our frontiers in extreme terrain and harsh border and (protection of borders) continues to this day," Jaishankar said while addressing the Tamil weekly Thuglak's 53rd anniversary here on Saturday evening. "The national wellbeing has many facets and national security is without question th

After Singapore, Twitter likely to vacate India offices in Mumbai, Delhi

The process for vacating offices was initiated in December last year, according to reports citing sources

India lets banks use face recognition, iris scan for transactions: Rpts

The Indian government is allowing banks to verify individual transactions that exceed a certain annual limit using facial recognition and an iris scan in some cases, in a bid to reduce fraud

Jerath Path Labs expands the reach in India in allergy-testing

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In a first, India among the top five ECM markets globally in 2022

Interestingly, in 2022 India also broke into the top-five league in terms of market capitalization

LIVE: Former Union Minister Sharad Yadav passes away, confirms his daughter

Catch all the live updates from across the globe here

Conflict and inflation: Indian realities

Policymakers must be wary of using frameworks tailored by rich countries to address rich country problems when crafting India's inflation-control strategy

A chance to reclaim the health of humanity

India's presidency of G-20 is a unique opportunity for the global community to build a consensus around a guiding philosophy that collaboration has a much higher value than competition in healthcare

India may be in better economic shape to create a rupee trade zone

But the China factor could play spoiler

World is in state of crisis: PM Modi at Voice of Global South summit

PM Modi says India can be the voice of Global South

India's Dec gold imports plunge 79%; fall by over a third in 2022: Report

The drop in imports could help in bringing down India's trade deficit and support the rupee

G-20 working on Disaster Risk Reduction under India's presidency: Report

The G20 is all set to establish a new working group on Disaster Risk Reduction under the presidency of India. The group will work towards achieving disaster risk reduction goals

India reports 197 fresh Covid-19 infections; active cases decline

India saw a single-day rise of 197 new coronavirus infections with active cases declining to 2,309, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday. The total tally of Covid cases was recorded at 4.46 crore (4,46,80,583). The overall death toll stands at 5,30,723 with one death reconciled by Kerala, the data updated at 8 am stated. The daily positivity was recorded at 0.10 per cent while the Weekly positivity rate was pegged at 0.11 per cent. Active cases comprise 0.01 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has increased to 98.80 per cent, according to the health ministry website. A decrease of 33 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. The number of people who have recuperated from the infection surged to 4,41,47,551, while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.19 per cent. According to the ministry's website, 220.15 crore doses of Covid vaccine have been administered in the country s

India eyes overseas copper, lithium mines to meet domestic shortfall

"A team of experts has already studied the technical aspects of the one copper and two lithium mines in Argentina by visiting the sites"

Cut down on sugar

Multiple levers are available to improve public health

India-US Trade Policy Forum to boost bilateral trade and investment

The US is also the biggest FDI investor in India in terms of equity, as per the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI's) latest FDI data, with Rs 8.1 crore, accounting for 16.9 per cent share in 2022

India sees single-day rise of 171 new Covid-19 cases; tally at 4.46 crore

India saw a single-day rise of 171 fresh COVID-19 cases, while the active cases have increased to 2,342, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Wednesday. The country's infection tally has reached 4,46,80,386, while the death toll stands at 5,30,722, the data updated at 8 am stated. The daily positivity rate was recorded at 0.09 and the weekly positivity rate was pegged at 0.11. The active cases comprise 0.01 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has increased to 98.80 per cent, according to the health ministry website. An increase of 23 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease in the country surged to 4,41,47,322, while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.19 per cent. According to the ministry's website, 220.15 crore doses of Covid vaccine have been administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination

Top US diplomat Donald Lu to travel to India to attend bilateral forum

United States Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu will travel to India and Bangladesh from January 12-15

Big Tech's new reality in India: Stricter regulation, face-off with telcos

All of a sudden, global tech giants are grappling with the prospect of more stringent regulation and domestic telco's demands for a level playing field

India reports 121 Covid-19 cases, one death; active cases decline

India logged 121 fresh coronavirus infections on Tuesday and the number of active cases came down to 2,319, according to Union health ministry data. The total number of COVID-19 cases now stands at 4.46 crore (4,46,80,215). The death toll increased to 5,30,722 with one death reported from Delhi in the last 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am stated. The daily positivity rate was recorded at 0.07 per cent, while the weekly positivity rate stood at 0.11 per cent. The active cases comprise 0.01 per cent of the total infections. The national COVID-19 recovery rate has increased to 98.80 per cent, according to the health ministry website. A decrease of 52 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,41,47,174. The case fatality rate stood at 1.19 per cent. According to the ministry's website, 220.14 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered so far under the nationwide