The new figure is a more than 60% increase on what the group of 10 multilateral development banks (MDBs) had funnelled to poorer nations last year

BJP’s Ravi Shankar Prasad accuses Muslim NGOs of raising support for Congress and its allies in Maharashtra, Jharkhand; says BJP will oppose any efforts to extend OBC, SC quota benefits to Muslims

The Boeing 747-8 had been carrying 329 passengers and 19 crew members. The turbulence was brief and occurred in an intertropical convergence zone

Steps will be taken to establish a tribal or adivasi development corporation for collective welfare, says Siddaramaiah

Since the war in Ukraine and Russia ouster from the international SWIFT payment system, payments have emerged as a major bottleneck between India and Russia

Immediately after the Karunanidhi government was dismissed on corruption charges, Governor K.K. Shah convened a meeting of Collectors and police officers to underscore the importance of a “clean, impartial, efficient, upright and just administration”. He said months later that he would restore Tamil Nadu’s image as the best-administered State

Ikramuddin Kamil has been appointed as the ‘Acting Consul’ at the Afghan mission in Mumbai, Bakhtar News Agency said.

Drinking water schemes get emphasis

The trend signals a shift in the grassroots power dynamics across the State with BJP venturing to claim even more of the BJD’s political territory

The reasons include diversion of foreign funds for carrying out anti-development activities or inciting malicious protests and religious conversions

In a video, the 64-year-old leader is seen speaking to the election staff at the helipad, asking for their names, postings, and appointment letters. He asked them, “How many people have you searched so far?” When they said that he was the first, Mr. Thackeray asked, “Why am I always the first customer?”

AAP leader has challenged a trial court’s September 17 order rejecting his plea challenging the summons issued to him on ED’s complaint in a money laundering case related to the alleged Delhi excise scam

Complementing DRDO on the successful launch, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said this paves the way for future indigenous cruise missile development programmes

The BJP is trying to compensate for the loss of 11 seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha election in the State while the Congress-led INDIA bloc has fallen apart barely five months after the polls

Caste factor often cuts through the religious and social divide in the region’s politics

The byelections, first since the Lok Sabha elections, have somethings at stake for both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress

Pentagon press secretary said the Iranian-backed Houthis launched at least eight drones, five anti-ship ballistic missiles and three anti-ship cruise missiles at the USS Stockdale and the USS Spruance

JNCASR and BIAL are looking for a partner who can provide data to all stakeholders on a regular basis

Mr. Hegseth deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and unsuccessfully ran for Senate in Minnesota in 2012 before joining Fox News.

For over 300 years, scientists have primarily studied bacteria using liquid cultures or flat 2D plates in laboratory settings

The Prime Minister is expected to meet several leaders on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Brazil

The U.S. President elect said their work would conclude by July 4, 2026, adding that a smaller and more efficient government would be a "gift" to the country on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

'You could see the purity of Wajid's soul when he talked to kids on reality shows.'

The unfortunate thing is that the film will leave a poor impression of the IAF's and indeed of the armed forces's ability to handle sensitive social matters within their professional space, observes Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (retd).

'You have not understood the heart of the Indian Air Force,' notes IAF Veteran Nitin Welde.

'I did not find anything atrociously out of place about the depiction of the IAF's image,' says Group Captain Murli Menon (retd).

The Social Dilemma shows how social media is turning human beings into lab rats and zombies, notes Chintan Girish Modi.

Subhash K Jha gives us an insight into Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Saawariya, as it completes 13 years in November.

'He always seemed one of us, part of the great aspiring middle class -- his values, his simplicity, even the intellectual snobbery which he could barely hide,' observes Mousumi Sengupta.

To an award show that's famous for honouring artists belatedly, we have sent as our official entry one of our major film-makers's weakest work yet, feels Sreehari Nair.

Subhash K Jha celebrates Ajay Devgn as the movie star turns 53.

On Kapil Sharma's 41st birthday, Subhash K Jha looks back on the comic's fall and resurrection.

Badhaai Do carries its audience on the wave of those little farces that come with being queer in India, a land where masculinity still has some say, observes Sreehari Nair.

Pellissery's women continue to express the beauty in our common humanity. And often, these women go so far into expressing our hopes, desires, absurdities and follies that they end up acting at variance with the ethical prescriptions of our age. And this, I believe, is precisely why they remain "invisible" to a whole bunch of viewers, says Sreehari Nair.

Sikandar Kher's Nishikant Adhikari is a solitary poet by the corner, trying to remind us that the honest plans of honest people don't always come to respectable ends, observes Sreehari Nair.