Ten more people died due to flood-related incidents across Assam in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 49, officials said on Thursday. The second wave of floods in Assam since July-end have affected over 30 lakh persons in 24 districts. Assam State Disaster Management Authority statistics said 31,54,882 persons in 2,584 villages […]
The key Indian equity market indices opened in red on Friday following global cues. The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) was trading 209.12 points or 0.66 per cent lower during the early session. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was also trading 62.60 points or 0.63 per cent lower at 9,841.55 points. […]
The suicides of two youngsters in Kerala and Maharashtra while playing the Blue Whale challenge, has forced the Goa Police to issue a formal advisory to parents on safeguarding their wards from playing the online game. The advisory released by the Crime Branch late on Thursday, asked parents to install parental control software in computers […]
Software major Wipro on Wednesday announced that it had won a five-year deal to manage the IT infrastructure and services of Bangladesh’s leading telecom operator Grameenphone Ltd. “We will manage the IT landscape for the operator by leveraging our Artificial Intelligence platform Holmes, own application development and management, infrastructure support and maintenance and back offices […]
A flight attendant of a private airlines died under mysterious circumstances reportedly after falling from her flat on the fourth floor of an apartment in North 24 Parganas district’s Kestopur, police said on Wednesday. “Clara Khongshit (22), hailing from Shillong, allegedly fell down through the sliding window of her flat on the fourth floor of […]
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Wednesday approved a new mechanism to expedite strategic divestment in select public sector firms. According to CCEA, the new mechanism envisages setting up of an “Alternative Mechanism” (AM) consisting of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari and minister from the concerned administrative […]
Days after he was removed as the party’s leader in the Rajya Sabha, former Janata Dal-United (JD-U) president Sharad Yadav on Wednesday said that people are “living in fear” and the Constitution of the country is being “tinkered with”. Yadav also announced that the Opposition will hold ‘Sajha Virasat Bachao’ (Save Composite Culture) conferences across […]
The Panaji bench of the Bombay High Court on Wednesday questioned the Airports Authority of India over its decision to allow a public meeting of BJP president Amit Shah on the premises of Dabolim International Airport in Goa. A division bench of Justices G.S. Patel and Nutan Sardessai was hearing a petition filed by city […]
Despite the bilateral tensions, border guards of India and Pakistan on Tuesday exchanged sweets and greetings along the International Border in Punjab on India’s 71st Independence Day. Border Security Force (BSF) officers and personnel exchanged sweets with Pakistan Rangers at Attari joint check post, 30 km from Amritsar, and the Hussainiwala border in Ferozepur district, […]
Telangana is proud to host the upcoming Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) in November and is preparing to make it a grand success, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao said on Tuesday. In his Independence Day speech, he said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump’s daughter and advisor Ivanka Trump would participate in the […]