It was a cloudy Wednesday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 21 degrees Celsius, five notches above the season’s average, the weather office said. “The sky will be partly cloudy. Thunderstorm and light rains are likely to occur,” an India Meteorological Department official (IMD) told IANS. The maximum temperature was […]
President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended Navroz greetings to the Parsi community on Wednesday. “Navroz Mubarak to everybody, especially to our small, much-loved and over-achieving Parsi community. May the coming year be happy and fulfilling,” Kovind said in a tweet. Modi also took to Twitter to wish the community. “Navroz Mubarak […]
Best known for her role as Miranda in the hit TV series “Sex and the City”, actress and activist Cynthia Nixon has officially entered the race for the governor of New York, challenging incumbent Andrew M. Cuomo who is seeking his third term, the media reported. “I love New York, and today I’m announcing my […]
The world’s largest social media company Facebook suffered the biggest one-day drop of its stocks by seven per cent on Wall Street on Monday in four years following reported data leakage of its 50 million users for alleged political purposes. The Facebook loss came after US and British media reported that the data of more […]
The US Treasury slapped sanctions on Monday on four current and former senior Venezuelan officials, accusing them of alleged economic mismanagement and corruption. The designated individuals include a director of the country’s National Bank of Housing and Habitat, the head of the body that oversees price controls in Venezuela, the head of the National Treasury […]
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s attorney, joked about the ongoing litigation with Stormy Daniels, a porn star who alleges of having an affair with the US President, and suggested that he might use winnings from the case to take a vacation, the media reported. “The more I’m thinking about it, I might even take an extended […]
The Pentagon has announced that the annual military drills between the US and South Korea will start from April 1, the media reported on Tuesday. “US Secretary of Defence James N. Mattis and the South Korea Minister of National Defence Song Young-moo have agreed to resume the annual combined exercises including Foal Eagle and Key […]
The key Indian equity indices opened on a negative note on Tuesday. The wider Nifty50 of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) traded lower by 38.45 points or 0.38 per cent at 10,055.80 points. The barometer 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) of the BSE, which opened at 32,876.48 points, traded at 32,826.94 points (9.25 a.m.) – down […]
A flash agitation by job-seekers over issues pertaining to railway recruitment has culminated in a rail-blockade, police caning and retaliatory stone-throwing leading to a virtual paralysis of the Central Railway suburban train services here on Tuesday. For nearly three hours, the services were severely disrupted as the protestors squatted and laid on the railway tracks […]
Expelled and now jailed AIADMK leader V.K. Sasikala’s husband M. Natarajan died on Tuesday at a private hospital here. He was 74. According to a statement issued by the Gleneagles Global Health City, Natarajan died at 1.35 a.m. “Every possible clinical attempt was made to sustain his revival. However, despite our best efforts he was […]