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Vande Bharat Express achieves 130 kmph speed during inaugural run

Once India's fastest, the Gatimaan Express, which runs between Delhi and Agra with a maximum speed of 160 kmph and an average of 112 kmph, has now receded to the second place

Pulwama attack: Withdrawing MFN status to Pak won't hurt Islamabad too much

Granting Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to Pakistan has helped India more than Pakistan over the years

Forex reserves dip $2.1 bn to $398.1 bn on fall in foreign currency assets

In the previous week, the reserves had surged by $2.063 billion to $400.24 billion

India ends MFN status to Pak, Jaitley says will ensure its global isolation

The decision was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Friday morning

MSP hike to improve sugar mills' operating profit margins by 6%: Icra

The rating agency Icra said that this is likely to translate to an increase in operating profits by around Rs 2/kg sugar sold which is around 6 per cent increase in operating margins

Exports grow 3.74% to $26.36 bn in Jan; trade deficit narrows to $14.73 bn

Imports almost remained flat at $41 billion during the last month, narrowing the trade deficit to $14.73 billion

India to be world's largest energy growth market by mid-2020s: Report

Global energy demand is expected to increase by around a third by 2040

PM Modi lays foundation for Rs 20,000 crore defence corridor in UP

So far, MoUs worth Rs 4,000 cr have already been signed with public and private sector firms for Corridor, which consists of various infra projects totalling over Rs 40,000 cr in Bundelkhand region

Govt mulling interoperability for public Wi-Fi network: Telecom Secy

Telecom secretary Aruna Sundararajan said 3.7 lakh Wi-Fi hotspots have been deployed by the industry

Why national data will remain contested

The expansion and transformation of the Indian economy has altered the scale of measurement and the way data is gathered

Did Modi's policies for electronics help achieve 'Make in India' dream?

The Make in India policy for electronics has achieved modest targets and manufacturers balk at stiffer ones

Why there are doubts on Bhavantar plan

A complicated registration and compensation mechanism and price manipulation by traders have precluded success

The 'blue flame' revolution

Why the government can unambiguously take credit for the scheme to distribute cooking gas to poor rural households

Brent above $65: Oil prices hit 2019 highs amid OPEC-led supply cuts

Brent pushed above $65 per barrel for the first time in 2019, before edging back to $64.91 a barrel by 0143 GMT. That was still 0.5 percent above the last close.

Lucknow to Najaf: Air India restarts flights to Iraq after a 30-year gap

The five-and-a-half-hour flight from Lucknow to Najaf will operate on Mondays and Thursdays.

Arun Jaitley likely to resume charge of FinMin today, to attend CCS meet

After resuming the charge, sources said, he would also attend a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security to discuss the Pulwama attack that killed at least 37 CRPF personnel.

Weighted average call rate anomaly needs to be fixed, says RBI research

While one set of banks poses liquidity in surplus, the other suffers from an acute deficit

WPI inflation eases to a 10-month low of 2.76% in January on cheaper fuel

The trend is in line with the consumer price inflation rate, which declined to a 19-month low of 2.05 per cent in January from 2.11 in December

Job creation, technology transfer, investments dominate India-US talks

Last year, both US and India had given a wide berth to contentious trade issues in the 2+2 dialogue

Bharat 22 ETF's additional offering subscribed over ten times: Govt

Since its launch in Nov 2017, the Centre has raised Rs 22,900 cr through Bharat 22 ETF in two tranches