Key Indian equity market indices opened in the green on Friday with companies posting healthy gains in the third quarter earnings. The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) was trading 101.87 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 35.85 points or […]
Over a dozen shops, two banks and a post office were gutted in a massive fire that broke out here in the Kashmir Valley on Friday. No casualties werte reported in the incident, police said. According to police, flames and smoke billowing out of the old Majestic Hotel building at the Court Road area near […]
The Vice Chairman of Samsung Group, Lee Jae-yong, on Thursday morning arrived at the prosecutor’s office for questioning in a bribery case, media reports said. Lee, is the heir apparent of South Korea’s largest family-run conglomerate that was being investigated for the scandal involving impeached South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Xinhua news agency reported. Lee […]
The disciplinary committee of the Kerala Cricket Association (KCA) that probed Sanju Samson for his objectionable conduct in a Ranji Trophy match last month, on Thursday let off the 22-year-old player with a strong warning to behave himself. Along with the warning, the KCA has asked Samson’s father, a former constable with the Delhi Police, […]
US Senator John McCain has admitted that he gave the FBI a dossier detailing claims of a Russian blackmail plot against President-elect Donald Trump. The Arizona lawmaker, who is a longtime Trump critic, made the public statement on Wednesday as questions piled up about his alleged role in spreading an unverified and error-riddled document that […]
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has reiterated that his country will not pay for a wall along the US-Mexico border, within hours of US President-elect Donald Trump doubling down on his campaign pledge to force the Latin American neighbour to do so. “It is evident that we have some differences with the new government of […]
The head of the US Office of Government Ethics (OGE) slammed President-elect Donald Trumps plan to separate himself from his business, calling it “wholly inadequate” in resolving potential conflicts of interest. “The plan the President-elect has announced doesn’t meet the standards that the best of his nominees are meeting and that every President in the […]
The US Department of Defence has announced that the stronghold of the Islamic State (IS) in the Iraqi city of Mosul is weakening, a media report said on Tuesday. The Pentagon announcement came hours after the Iraqi special forces advanced and reached the Tigris River bank in the southeastern part of the city, opposite the […]
A drug that could “melt away” cancer cells has been approved for human use in Australia, a media report said on Tuesday. Developed in Melbourne, Venetoclax, which will be sold as Venclexta, has been approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) for use by patients with advanced forms of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, Xinhua news agency […]
At least 21 trains were running late and seven cancelled due to dense fog in parts of north India on Tuesday morning, a railway official said. The status of the delayed and cancelled trains was last updated till morning 5 a.m. According to the Northern Railway official, nine trains were rescheduled. The cancelled trains included […]