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India vs Australia ODI | Found a nice rhythm but there wasn’t a lot of pressure: Steve Smith
Smith struck 105 off 66 balls in Australia’s lop-sided 66-run win in the first ODI. Australian batsman Steve Smith found his “rhythm” with a cracking hundred against India in the first ODI but admitted that there wasn’t much pressure unlike other times. Smith struck 105 off 66 balls in Australia’s lop-sided 66-run win in the […]
Petrol price crosses ₹82-mark, diesel above ₹72 a litre
This is the eighth increase in rates since Nov. 20 when oil companies resumed daily price revision after nearly two-week hiatus. Petrol price on Saturday crossed ₹82-mark in Delhi and diesel surpassed ₹72 a litre after eighth increase in rates in past nine days. Petrol price on Saturday was hiked by 24 paise per litre […]
Indian economy contracts by 7.5% in Q2
Country enters technical recession. India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted 7.5% in the second quarter of 2020-21, following the record 23.9% decline recorded in the first quarter, as per estimates released by the National Statistical Office on Friday. The country has now entered a technical recession with two successive quarters of negative growth. However, the […]
₹4300 crore collected as compound interest during moratorium returned, SC notes
The payments were made in compliance of a government payback scheme introduced on October 23 The Supreme Court recorded in a judgment on Friday that lending institutions have returned over ₹4300 crore in compound interest collected from small borrowers during the moratorium period. The ex-gratia payments have been made into 13.12 crore bank accounts across […]