India and France adopt Innovation Roadmap 2030 during Modi visit
Narendra Modi and Emmanuel Macron unveiled 13 outcomes on the first leg of the prime minister's France visit, adopting an Innovation Roadmap 2030, launching a joint AI working group and signing 19 agreements spanning trade, space, education and defence.
A year after Air India Flight 171, families mourn 260 dead with no final report
Memorials in Ahmedabad, Delhi, Mumbai and London marked one year since the crash that killed 260; the AAIB's final report is delayed as engine analysis continues.
India lodges 'strong protest' with US after three mariners die in tanker strike
India summoned a senior US diplomat after three Indian seafarers were killed when American forces fired on the tanker Settebello for breaching the blockade on Iranian oil in the Gulf of Oman.
Monsoon sweeps into Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, IMD says
India's southwest monsoon advanced into parts of Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh on Saturday, days after a delayed June 4 onset over Kerala. The weather office, which has forecast below-normal seasonal rainfall, expects the rains to reach Delhi by late June.
RBI weighs rates as weak monsoon forecast clouds India's outlook
The Reserve Bank of India's monetary policy committee is meeting this week with a decision due Friday, as a record-low rupee and a downgraded monsoon forecast complicate its choices. A weaker-than-hoped monsoon threatens rural demand and food prices in an economy where farming still employs nearly half the workforce.
Earlier coverage
- At least 21 killed in fire at New Delhi building housing hotel
- India's seafood exports hit record $8.46 billion despite headwinds
- India–Oman trade pact takes effect, cutting duties on most imports
- More than 100 dead in southern India heatwave as power demand hits record
- Rupee hits record low near 96 to the dollar as RBI rate hike looks increasingly likely
- India finalises ₹3.25 lakh crore deal for 114 Rafale fighters from Dassault
- Maharashtra raises onion procurement price to ₹15/kg as Mumbai supply tightens
- Delhi swelters at 47C as yellow heat alert lifts to orange and dust storms gust at 60 km/h
- India recovers 11th-century Chola copper plates held in the Netherlands
- Modi warns of a "decade of disasters" during Netherlands leg of five-nation tour
- Death toll from Uttar Pradesh thunderstorms climbs to 111
- Mumbai swelters as temperatures approach 42°C and gold rates surge on new import duty
- Tamil Nadu CM Vijay wins trust vote 144-22 as AIADMK splits on assembly floor
- Modi urges Indians to curb fuel and gold as Iran war strains foreign reserves
- Vijay's TVK clears 118-seat threshold as Congress, Left and VCK back government in Chennai
- Sensex sheds 439 points as crude and Hormuz tensions hit banking and auto names
- BJP-led alliance sweeps Assam state polls with 102 of 126 seats
- Delhi notches its hottest day of the year as heatwave grips north India