Key equity indices – BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty50 — touched fresh all-time highs on Monday, supported by healthy buying in banking, consumer durables and auto stocks. Both the Sensex and Nifty50 hit their all-time highs of 37,801.78 points and 11,427.00 points respectively. According to analysts, broadly positive global cues also supported the gains. At […]
Life across the Kashmir Valley remained adversely affected for the second consecutive day due to a separatist-called protest shutdown on Monday. Separatist conglomerate, Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) has called for the protest shutdown to voice support for Article 35A. The article has been challenged in the Supreme Court. A petition seeking abrogation of this article […]
Supreme Court judges who are upset with the Centre altering the seniority of Justice K.M. Joseph for his appointment as the Supreme Court judge, will meet Chief Justice Dipak Misra on Monday over the issue. The judges include collegium members who are unhappy as the Presidential notification listed Justice Joseph at number three in terms […]
By Sandeep Manohar New Delhi On a rainy July morning, Sumit Kumar, a murder convict in Delhis Tihar Jail, one of the country’s largest, finishes his tea and rushes to begin his dance session in preparation for the latest season of a reality show that over the last few years has become a regular feature […]
By Saket Suman What impact can a song have on an individual, particularly on somebody as iconic as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi? The surreal, symbolic and sensual “Vaishnav jan to” was Bapu’s favourite song and is synonymous with him even today. But who is its writer? As somebody who grew up in India over four decades […]
New Delhi Deshna Jain, a 20-year-old girl from Tikamgarh who has become Miss Deaf Asia and the third runner-up of Miss Deaf International held in Taiwan, says that the platform has given her a new boost and she now wants to go to Italy and participate in fashion shows globally. “This platform has given me […]
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday assured that there will be no discrimination or unnecessary harassment in the updation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and said the entire process has been fair and transparent. Reiterating that the matter pertained to national security, he condemned alleged attempts by a “few” (persons) to create […]
The Antigua government has said fugitive Indian jeweller Mehul Choksi was given citizenship of the Carribean country after “stringent background checks” and clearance certificate by Mumbai Police and the External Affairs Ministry. The Citizenship by Investment Unit (CIU) of Antigua and Barbuda, however, said while conducting background checks on Choksi, it found that the Securities […]
The key Indian equity indices — S&P BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty50 — rose over one per cent on Friday supported by a healthy macro economic data and firm buying activity in the banking, consumer durables and metal indices. The Nikkei India Services Business Activity Index released on Friday rose from 52.6 in June to […]
West Indian power-hitter Chris Gayle on Friday predicted that England will win the ongoing five-match Test rubber despite India giving a tough fight to the hosts in the first Test at the Edgbaston Cricket Ground. “I believe England are the favourites because they are playing under familiar conditions, but at the same time I would […]