The Lok Sabha on Thursday condoled the passing away of former Speaker Rabi Ray. Soon after the house met after a month-long recess, Speaker Sumitra Mahajan made the obituary references to the death of Ray along with other members Jambuwant Dhote, P. Shiv Shankar and Syed Shahabuddin. A two-minute silence was observed before the Question […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has exuded confidence on the passage of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill in the Budget session of Parliament which resumed on Thursday. “There will be detailed discussion on the Budget and I am sure the level of debate and discussion will be of good quality. It will be focused […]
An air ambulance, hired by Medanta Hospital, had crashlanded near Bangkok on Sunday, killing one of its pilots, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Monday. “The Air Ambulance of Medanta Hospital with five member crew caught fire and crashlanded near Bangkok. The injured were shifted to Bangkok Hospital by Army helicopters,” she tweeted on […]
Indian equity markets traded on a flat-to-negative note during the early morning trade session on Tuesday, as heavy selling pressure was witnessed in metal, automobile and healthcare stocks. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) inched down by 8.00 points or 0.09 per cent, to 8,955.45 points. The barometer 30-scrip sensitive index […]
Russian State Nuclear Energy Corporation or Rosatom closed 2016 with its overseas order book position valued around $133 billion, the company said. The company’s order book includes the orders from India which is in the process of setting up two more units at Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli district around 650 km from here. Rosatom […]
By Debayan Mukherjee Kolkata “I sometimes feel that the world is certainly not a better place.” To hear renowned author Ruskin Bond — who helps transport children to a surreal world in the lap of nature — say this is painful. Growing conflict, violence, environmental degradation — all these worry the 82-year-old popular writer. “I […]
Two Civil Society groups in Meghalaya have sought the intervention of President Pranab Mukherjee to stop the attacks on RSS and BJP workers in Kerala allegedly by CPM workers. The groups — Meghalaya Citizens Forum for Human Rights (MCFHR) and Meghalaya Conscious Citizen Forum (MCCF) — on Wednesday also staged a sit-in protest in Shillong, […]
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 after opening at 28,849.04 points, touched a high of 28,894.85 and a low of 28,824.17 points. On Tuesday the Sensex closed at 28,743.32 points. The Sensex is trading at 28,868.40 points […]
Landslides on Tuesday forced closure of the Jammu-Srinagar national highway yet again stranding scores of vehicles carrying passengers and goods, a traffic department official said. Fresh landslides in Mehar area of Ramban district led to the disruption of traffic on the strategic highway in Jammu and Kashmir. No traffic would be allowed on the highway […]
Banking operations across the country came to a halt on Tuesday as 10 lakh bankers staged a strike against the government’s “anti-people banking reforms”, said a bank union leader. The strike was called by the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), comprising nine unions. They also pressed for compensation to employees for extra work done […]