For the second consecutive day on Tuesday medical services in 17 government hospitals in Maharashtra, including four in Mumbai, were hit when over 3,000 resident doctors continued their mass Casual Leave protest against growing incidents of attacks by patients’ relatives. In the absence of any concrete measures by the government pertaining to their security, the […]
US President Donald Trump’s administration will appeal rulings by two federal judges who blocked his second attempt to institute a travel ban, media reports said. “We intend to appeal the flawed rulings,” White House spokesman Sean Spicer said in his daily press briefing on Thursday, referring to temporary stays issued by federal judges in Hawaii […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Dutch Prime Minister Rutte won the elections but lost a friend like Turkey, media reports said. “Rutte, you might have finished the elections as the first party, but you should know that you lost a friend like Turkey,” Xinhua news agency quoted Erdogan as saying at a rally […]
The US intelligence community and defence officials are anticipating that North Korea will soon carry out a new round of testing of its missile and nuclear programme, a media report said on Friday. The officials are closely monitoring the regime’s programmes and there are growing intelligence indicators of fresh and concerning activity inside North Korea, […]
Key Indian equity market indices opened in the green on Friday after the Council approved the Goods and Services Tax (GST) draft bills. The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) was trading 110.15 points or 0.37 per cent higher during the early session. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was also trading 36.95 […]
A fire was reported in a Delhi hotel with the Jharkhand cricket team and former India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni in it on Friday morning. Dhoni is currently leading his state team. “A fire call was received at 6.30 a.m., from Welcome Hotel in Dwarka Sector 10 area, following which 30 fire tenders were rushed […]
Positive global cues, a strong rupee and healthy buying in metals, capital goods and consumer durables stocks, brought a cheer to the Indian equity markets on Thursday. The key indices provisionally closed with gains of more half a per cent each, well absorbing the 25 basis points (bps) rate hike by the US Federal Reserve […]
Congress leader Vishwajit Rane on Thursday resigned from the Congress and the assembly, shortly after he went missing during a trust vote in the house which the BJP coalition won. Rane told reporters that he had submitted his resignation to the Speaker’s office and it had been accepted. “I have been told by my party […]
Skipper Steven Smith led the way with a half-century as Australia posted 194/4 in their first innings at tea on the opening day of their third cricket Test against India at the JSCA International Stadium here on Thursday. Smith was batting on 80 runs with Glenn Maxwell on 19 at the other end when the […]
The Delhi High Court on Thursday dismissed a plea filed by NRI televangelist Zakir Naik against a ban on his NGO Islamic Research Foundation (IRF), saying the home ministry has “sufficient material for immediate ban”. Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva dismissing Naik’s plea, said: “Immediate action appears to have been taken in interest of sovereignty, integrity and […]