India's contribution to the improved global growth outlook extends well beyond the immediate AI boom or the performance of energy-exporting economies. The IMF's assessment points instead to a combination of domestic demand, demographics, market expansion and structural reforms as important drivers of India's longer-term prospects.
With 52,509 new coronavirus (Covid-19) cases and 857 deaths in the last 24 hours, India crossed 19 lakh-mark with the total caseload standing at 19,08,254 while the total fatalities increased to 39,795, data from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare revealed on Wednesday
Underlining the importance of adequate testing for COVID-19, World Health Organisation's (WHO) Chief Scientist, Dr Soumya Swaminathan, on Tuesday said that India's testing rate is low, compared to other countries which have done well in combating the pandemic
India's Health Ministry on Tuesday said that as many as 18,000 ventilators have been supplied to hospitals across the country till now and that only 0.27 percent of coronavirus patients are on them
Online sale of fake medical supplies, drugs and personal protective equipment, and exploitation of teleconference tools are the major Covid-19 cybercrime trends in Asia, said Interpol in a report released on Tuesday
India on Tuesday slammed Pakistan, saying it is obsessed with territorial aggrandisement after the Imran Khan government issued a new political map which includes parts of Gujarat and the Union Territories of Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir
The Ram Janmabhoomi movement's guiding force and BJP patriarch L.K. Advani broke his silence late on Tuesday evening on the Bhumi Pujan (groundbreaking ceremony) of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, calling it an "emotional and historical day"
The Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and the Uttar Pradesh Police have intensified patrolling along the 551 km-long India-Nepal border, ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's scheduled visit to Ayodhya for Ram Temple Bhumi Puja on Wednesday
Exhuming confidence on India's long-term economic prospects, Maruti Suzuki's Managing Director & CEO Kenichi Ayukawa has said the Indian economy may recover relatively faster from the Covid-induced downturn, as it did from the global financial crisis
Nepal appears on the top list of the countries that may face most losses in remittances due to the COVID-19 pandemic, says a new report
The initial excitement among Nepal's domestic airline operators over resumption of flights after nearly a five-month hiatus has begun to dampen
On the eve of the first anniversary of the revocation of the contentious Article 370 and Article 35A, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan unveiled a new political map which includes the UT of J&K as part of Pakistan on Tuesday
In a strongly worded response to Indian MEA's statement on Pakistan's issuance of a new political map, the Pakistan Foreign Office said: "We categorically reject the statement made by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Pakistan's political map
Polling for the 2020 parliamentary election commenced in Sri Lanka Wednesday at 7 am in 12,985 polling stations across the country under strict health guidelines
Bangladesh seems to be sliding sides through soft diplomacy, signalLing towards possibilities of cooperation with Pakistan as two sides work towards melting the ice of critical, tense and strained relations
The flood situation improved in Bangladesh as water levels of major rivers fell further but many rivers are still flowing above the danger mark
