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Budget 2019: Tech industry hails Modi govt's vision to boost digital economy

The main objective of the budget is to set the groundwork for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's aspiration of a $5 trillion dollar economy.

Jul 5, 2019

Union Budget 2019: Sitharaman increases the financial outlay for defence

Sitharaman's omission of defence allocation in speech surprised many, she being a former defence minister, but the finance minister defended her choice of highlights for the speech at the post-budget press conference

Jul 5, 2019

Black-buck poaching case: Jodhpur court warns to reject Salman Khan's bail

Salman Khan is yet again in trouble as a Jodhpur court has warned the actor that his bail will be rejected if he does not appear in person in the next hearing of 1998 blackbuck poaching case.

Jul 5, 2019

Venezuela blames US sanctions for blocking debt financing, oil sales

Vice Foreign Minister William Castillo said the country's oil export income plummeted from $40 billion per year to $5 billion.

Jul 5, 2019

Businessman found with gunshot wounds in his car in Hyderabad

Faizal has been shifted to Care Hospital at Banjara Hills.

Jul 5, 2019

Refugee Crisis: 80 African migrants killed as boat capsizes off Tunisia coast

Survivors told the Tunisian coast guard that the boat was rescued off the port town of Zarzis.

Jul 5, 2019

Tamil Nadu honour killing: Couple hacked to death, woman's father arrested

Thoothukudi police have arrested Jothi's father on a complaint filed by the woman's family. It is being claimed that he was threatening the couple since they got married.

Jul 5, 2019

OMG! What a sizzling hot butt! But it's no butt, only a sea star, say biologists

A Japanese girl's tweet with the photograph of a sea star with a 'thick bottom' in a US aquarium goes viral triggering a barrage of memes on social media.

Jul 5, 2019

Budget 2019: Petrol, diesel price to rise by Rs 2/litre after the cess hike

The finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has proposed to increase the Special Additional Excise Duty (SAED) as well as Road and Infrastructure Cess by Re 1 per litre on automobile fuels.

Jul 5, 2019

'Wolf of Wall Street' producer Riza Aziz charged in 1MDB scandal

The Hollywood producer was accused of receiving $248.2 million of funds from the contentious state fund, 1MDB, into personal Swiss bank accounts.

Jul 5, 2019

Indian-origin banker gets 13 years in Singapore jail for siphoning US$10 million from client's accounts

Kale Jagdish Purushottam (43) plead guilty to 20 forgery and cheating charges. He also plead guilty to 30 charges under the Computer Misuse Act where he had siphoned USD 10 million. There were more than 500 other charges taken into account during Kale's sentencing.

Jul 5, 2019

Inertia grips Congress in Karnataka as leaders make no move to stop MLA resignations

The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Dinesh Gundu Rao is likely to go on a foreign trip while the state government is hanging on a thread. Instead, Rao has assigned working president Eshwar Khandre to reach out to rebel MLAs to pacify them.

Jul 5, 2019

Haren Pandya murder case: 12 convicted for killing ex-Gujarat Home Minister

The court dismissed the PIL filed by the Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), which sought fresh court-monitored probe into the killing.

Jul 5, 2019

MDMK chief Vaiko sentenced to year in prison over 2009 sedition case

The sedition case was filed by the Tamil Nadu government in 2009. Vaiko had given a seditious speech during his book launch event at Raja Annamalai Mandram in Chennai.

Jul 5, 2019

Shangri-la Bengaluru brings a new executive chef to town

At Shangri-La Hotel, Bengaluru, the new executive chef is to focus on continuously improving the guests' dining experience through the highest quality of food standards.

Jul 5, 2019