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Chidambaram lashes out at Modi govt for changing GDP base year to show higher growth

Congress leader rebuts NITI Aayog vice chairman’s claim that Modi govt has surpassed UPA-era growth despite being handed over economy in bad shape.

Brain behind Baba Ramdev’s Kimbho quits to launch her own messenger app

Aditi Kamal is set to relaunch her old app, Bolo Messenger, just days after Patanjali's ‘swadeshi’ version of WhatsApp hits the market.

China may soon no longer entertain Trump’s escalating trade-war on their country

China has not ruled out tariffs on automobiles, semiconductors and Boeing airplanes to retaliate against Trump.

No stopping fall in India’s forex levels, it now touches $400.8 billion

Analysts say although current levels are comfortable they’re apprehensive of the pace at which reserves are dropping.

The billionaires and the baba: How Fortis Healthcare founders burnt through $2 billion

Over the years, brothers Malvinder and Shivinder loaned about Rs 2,500 crore to their spiritual guru Gurvinder Singh Dhillon which they failed recover.

Internal strife forces Sundar Pichai to rethink Google’s re-entry to China

Reports about Dragonfly, a censored search app, compelled over 1000 Google employees to petition against its launch in China. 

India to test gas-fired plants as ‘peakers’ to supply uninterrupted power supply

Gas-fired power plants can be useful when solar-fired generation peters and coal plants take time to begin their operations.

It’s Mukesh Ambani who could become Amazon’s biggest rival in India

Walmart's acquisition of Flipkart might have given the impression that the battle for India would be an all-American contest, but the fight isn't that simple - or easy. 

The rupee fell past 70/$ and recovered. But don’t take your seatbelts off just yet

Chaos in emerging markets threatens to take the rupee beyond 70.50 by year-end, and America’s Iran threat is making it worse.

Blackstone group in talks for stake in Jet Airways loyalty programme

Jet Airways is racing for funds with rising crude oil prices increasing competition in the India market.

On Camera

Don’t let anti-vaxxers weaponise AstraZeneca furore. Vaccines are safe—and we are the proof

Vaccines have eliminated two diseases—smallpox in humans and rinderpest in cattle. If they were killing one in 50,000 people, we wouldn’t be rolling them out across the globe for decades.

Strong showing by north, improved compliance — how GST revenue rose to record Rs 2.1 lakh cr in April

While April typically sees highest collections in a financial year, analysts say a host of reasons came together this time to lift total figures.

Army Dental Centre of Research & Referral celebrates silver jubilee

The ADC R&R is dedicated to providing high-quality dental care to soldiers, their families, and veterans.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.