Markets open on high note

Markets open on high note

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 opened at a high of 35,330.14. It touched a low of 35,251.34. The Sensex was trading at 35,316.07 up by 171.58 points or 0.53 per cent from its Tuesday’s close at […]

Rain, snow to continue in J&K till Thursday

Rain, snow to continue in J&K till Thursday

Fresh snowfall and rains occurred in the mountains of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, as the Met forecast scattered rains and snow to continue till Thursday. There would be some improvement in the weather after Thursday, the weather official said, adding that the state has so far received 83.5 mm rainfall between October 1 and […]

Deepika, Ranveer set for ‘band, baaja, baaraat’ in Italy

Deepika, Ranveer set for ‘band, baaja, baaraat’ in Italy

A six year-long love story will culminate with a wedding on Wednesday when actors Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh tie the knot in a dreamy Lake Como setting in Italy amidst a tight circle of family and friends. The actors, adored for their on-screen chemistry in movies like “Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela” and “Bajirao Mastani”, […]

Maoist attacks in Chhattisgarh, 6 injured

Maoist attacks in Chhattisgarh, 6 injured

Maoists carried out two simultaneous attacks here on Wednesday injuring four Border Security Force (BSF) troopers, a civilian and one District Reserve Guard in one of the attacks, police said. The Left wing extremists, who had asked citizens to boycott the poll process going on in the state, carried out the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) […]

Karnataka celebrates Tipu Jayanti as CM stays away

Karnataka celebrates Tipu Jayanti as CM stays away

Karnataka on Saturday celebrated the 269th birth anniversary of erstwhile Mysore (Mysuru) ruler Tipu Sultan and the one person who was conspicuously missing from the festivities was Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy. Even Deputy Chief Minister G. Parameshwara, who was slated to inaugurate the state celebrations here, did not make it to the event. Security was […]

Soldier killed in Pakistan firing on LoC

Soldier killed in Pakistan firing on LoC

An Indian Army soldier was killed on Saturday in a Pakistani ceasefire violation on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, a defence officer said. “The Pakistan Army resorted to unprovoked ceasefire violation in Sunderbani at around 9.45 a.m.,” Defence Ministry spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Devender Anand said. The soldier succumbed to […]

Spurned suitor kills girl’s father in Maharashtra

Spurned suitor kills girl’s father in Maharashtra

A jobless suitor in a Maharashtra village stabbed a man to death after he rejected him his daughter’s hand in marriage, police said here on Saturday. Another relative was also grievously injured in the late Friday incident in the Datada-Budruk village, when Sachin Narayan Surnar attacked Kailash Shinde at his home. Surnar wanted to marry […]

‘Mini Taj’ maker dies in UP hit-and-run

‘Mini Taj’ maker dies in UP hit-and-run

Faizul Hasan Qadri, who hit headlines for building a ‘mini-Taj Mahal’ in memory of his late wife in Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh, has been killed in a road accident, police said on Saturday. Qadri sustained serious injuries in the late Thursday hit-and-run incident in Kesar Kalan. The 83-year-old retired Postmaster was admitted in hospital […]

Non-reduction of fuel prices tantamount to robbery: Ramadoss

Non-reduction of fuel prices tantamount to robbery: Ramadoss

PMK Founder S. Ramadoss on Saturday termed the high retail prices of petrol and diesel despite there being a decline in global crude oil prices as robbery. In a statement issued here, Ramadoss said that the international crude oil prices have now fallen by 22.87 per cent to $60.13/barrel from $77.96/barrel on October 3, 2018. […]