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Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has expressed grief over the death of five persons from his state, who met with an accident in Goa. “Deeply saddened over their death, who were from East Champaran district of Bihar and died in a road accident in Goa. Wishing speedy recovery of the injured persons,” said Kumar. Four Bihar labourers were killed and four others injured after a bus rammed into their hutments along the roadside at Verna Industrial estate in the coastal state on Saturday. These workers, all natives of Bihar, were engaged in the construction work of pavement…

NEW DELHI: The tech giant, Apple, launched two company-owned stores in India last year. One in Mumbai and another in Delhi. These two stores in India have a direct reporting line to the Apple retail team in the US. Other Apple Indian stores have to report to Apple India Sales Operations. The former sales are also included in the global financial records. Among all the hurdles which this tech giant might have expected in their meeting, the cash inflow must have been at the bottom of it. The company had to install currency-counting machines to efficiently analyse the amounts that…

MUMBAI: Leading global financial firm Goldman Sachs has revised its forecast for India’s GDP growth by 10 basis points to 6.7 per cent as it expects the government’s heavy investments in big-ticket infrastructure projects to continue with the huge dividend coming in from the RBI. “Going forward, we expect investment growth momentum to sustain with extra fiscal space for infrastructure spending given a higher than expected dividend transfer by the RBI. As a result, we recently revised our growth forecasts for 2024 slightly higher by 10 bps to 6.7 per cent,” Andrew Tilton, head of emerging markets economic research at…

MUMBAI: The BCCI’s deadline for applications for the position of Indian men’s cricket team head coach expired on Monday. The Indian Cricket Board and their rumored top candidate, Gautam Gambhir, remained silent on the matter. Gautam Gambhir’s name has gained significant momentum after he led Kolkata Knight Riders to their third IPL championship on Sunday. Though neither Gambhir nor the BCCI have made any official comments, the cricket board wants to hire one of the Indian players. According to BCCI secretary Jay Shah, the Board is seeking a candidate who has worked their way up through the organization and is…

MUMBAI: Rohit Sharma-led India have arrived in the United States to take part in the 2024 T20 World Cup, which begins on June 2. Ahead of the marquee event, former England captain Eoin Morgan has backed the Men in Blue to end their decade-long ICC trophy drought by winning the T20 World Cup next month. Morgan in a recent interaction on Sky Sports called India the ‘strongest team’ in T20 World Cup. He said, “The strongest side even with injuries throughout the tournament is India without a doubt. Their strength and depth are absolutely incredible at the moment… We are…

NEW DELHI: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday stuck to its first forecast and reiterated that this year’s Southwest monsoon would see “above normal” rainfall, but warned that it will be a hot and humid June in northwest India (including Delhi), with the humidity making it worse than the ongoing heatwave in the region. But overall, monsoon rainfall is expected to be “above normal” at 106% of long period average with a model error of +/-4%, the weather office said in its second Long Range Forecast of the Southwest monsoon. It said the same in its first LRF on…

NEW DELHI: A bomb threat was reported on a Delhi-Varanasi IndiGo flight, which was scheduled to take off at 5.35 am on Monday. A total of 176 passengers on the flight were safely evacuated onto the tarmac through emergency exits, while a quick response team reached the site and began a search, said the Delhi Fire Service. Airport officials said the flight (6E2211) received a specific bomb threat at the Delhi airport following which, as per protocol, the aircraft was taken to an isolation bay. The flight is being inspected by a bomb disposal squad, they said. After all security…