Taking a cue from global markets, the key Indian equity market indices on Thursday opened higher. The Sensitive Index (Sensex) of the BSE, which had closed at 33,218.81 points on Wednesday, opened higher at 33,376.62 points. Minutes into trading, it was quoting at 33,418.41 points, up by 199.60 points, or 0.60 per cent. At the […]
An Iranian-born Australian Senator has been racially abused by members of a far-right group in Melbourne. Sam Dastyari, the Senator representing New South Wales (NSW) for the Australian Labour Party (ALP), was abused by members of the Patriot Blue group in a city bar here on Wednesday night, Xinhua news agency reported. A video of […]
Income Tax (IT) officials on Thursday raided 187 locations belonging to relatives of jailed AIADMK leader V.K. Sasikala, her nephew T.T.V. Dinakaran and organisations connected to them in several cities, said a senior IT official. He said the search is in connection with unexplained routing of cash post-demonetisation through shell companies connected with them. Ten […]
Indian-origin International Development Secretary of UK Priti Patel, has resigned amid controversy over her unauthorised meetings with Israeli officials, media reports said. Patel resigned on Wednesday night after being summoned back from a trip to Uganda and Ethiopia by Downing Street after it emerged that she failed to be candid with Prime Minister Theresa May […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with his visiting US counterpart Donald Trump on Thursday, saying that bilateral ties were at a “new historical starting point”. The two leaders met at the Great Hall of the People here, reports Xinhua news agency. Trump arrived here on Wednesday on a three-day visit, the third leg of […]
Polling for the 68-seat Himachal Pradesh assembly in a single phase began amid tight security on Thursday, an election official said here. Voters across the state could be seen reaching polling stations even before polling started at 8 a.m. despite cold. “There is no report of any delay in starting the poll process,” Chief Electoral […]
Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha on Tuesday said that a detailed report has been sought from budget carrier IndiGo regarding the incident at Delhi airport last month, when a passenger was manhandled by the airline’s staff. The incident which took place on October 15 surfaced on Tuesday after a video showed […]
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday said it had seized nearly Rs 36.5 crore in demonetised currency and arrested nine persons here in its ongoing probe into the Jammu and Kashmir terror funding case. Following inputs, an NIA team seized the currency on Monday on Jai Singh Road near Connaught Place — a business […]
Russia’s export of arms and military equipment is expected to reach $15.3 billion by the end of 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. “Based on the results of January to September of this year, the portfolio of orders for military-technical cooperation exceeded $45 billion. Under the 2017 plan, export deliveries will amount to […]
Search engine Google on Wednesday dedicated its doodle to ‘Nritya Samragini’ Sitara Devi on her 97th birth anniversary. In the doodle the Kathak legend is seen in a pink costume posing elegantly at the centre of the graphic, with the accompaniments of instruments — ghungroo, tabla and sitar — taking the place of the remaining […]