It was a sunny and cold morning in the national capital on Wednesday with the minimum temperature recorded at 7.6 degrees Celsius, one notch above the season’s average. At least 18 trains were cancelled, 30 delayed and six rescheduled due to fog in several parts of northern India. Humidity in Delhi at 8.30 a.m. was […]
The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) on Wednesday opened on a positive note during the morning session of the trade. The Sensex of the BSE after opening at 34,087.32 points, touched a high of 34,087.32 points and a low of 34,019.61 points. On Tuesday the Sensex closed at 34,010.61 points. The Sensex is trading at 34,040.86 […]
Japan will not relocate its embassy from Israel’s Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono has said. In talks with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi, Kono on Tuesday said that Tokyo considers Jerusalem as one of the final status issues that need to be settled through direct negotiations. Kono reiterated Japan’s support for […]
Night temperatures throughout Jammu and Kashmir improved on Wednesday as the Met forecast light rain and snow in the higher reaches on Thursday and Friday. Minimum temperatures improved due to nightlong cloud cover in the state, a Met official said. Srinagar recorded a minimum temperature of 0.7 (rising above the freezing point) against Tuesday’s minus […]
Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar on Wednesday asked all opposition parties to help pass the Triple Talaq Bill in Parliament on Wednesday. “I appeal to all the opposition parties to help pass the bill on Triple Talaq in the Parliament unanimously,” Kumar told reporters after arriving in Parliament here. His remarks came amid continued […]
A day after Delhi Lt Governor Anil Baijal returned the AAP government’s move to home deliver public services, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday attacked him, questioning “who should have the final say”. “LG says digitisation enough. Elected government says digitisation needs to be coupled with doorstep delivery. LG does not agree. So, the question […]
India will “leapfrog” Britain and France to become the world’s fifth largest economy in 2018, ahead of an oncoming major global economic shift towards Asia, according to a British research organisation. The World Economic League Table (WELT) 2018 released on Monday by Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) said that in dollar terms India […]
At least 32 people, including women and children, were killed Monday in airstrikes carried out by the Saudi-led Arab coalition near the Yemeni capital and in the provinces of al-Hudaydah and Damar. Eleven died in the town of Aser, near Sanaa, eyewitnesses told Efe. The bombs destroyed a house located behind the town’s Egyptian Cemetery, […]
Russia’s central election commission on Monday rejected the registration of the opposition leader’s candidacy for the country’s upcoming presidential race. According to local media, 12 out of 15 commission members voted against Alexei Navalny’s bid to register as a candidate in the March 2018 election to run against popular incumbent Vladimir Putin. Navalny, who leads […]
Pope Francis I on Monday called on Christians to pray for all the children living in places ravaged by war and conflict in his traditional Christmas Day message. In his annual Urbi et Orbi (“to the City and the World”) nativity address, which he delivered from the central loggia of the Vatican Basilica, the pontiff […]