Key Indian equity indices trade flat
Key Indian equity market indices opened flat on Tuesday following global cues. The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) was trading 13.09 points or 0.05 per cent lower during the early session. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was trading 0.75 points or 0.01 per cent higher at 8,805.80 points. The BSE Sensex, […]
Security forces deployed across Kashmir
Following a separatist appeal for a protest shutdown across the Kashmir Valley, authorities on Monday made heavy deployment of security forces to avoid violence, police said. “There will be no curfew anywhere in the valley,” S.J.M. Gilani, inspector general of police (IGP) Kashmir zone, told the media here. Violent clashes erupted on Sunday in Fraesal […]
UP polls: Voting picks up within hours
Voting picked up in the first phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections within hours of its start at 7 a.m., poll officials said on Saturday. Kasganj witnessed 13 per cent polling in the first two hours, Muzaffarnagar 15, Meerut 10, Mathura 11, Noida seven and Greater Noida nine per cent. Technical snags in the […]
Scanty voting so far in first phase of UP polls
Voting started at a slow pace in the 73 assembly constituencies in western Uttar Pradesh on Saturday morning. The turnout in the first hour was poor with mostly youngsters seen casting their ballots. Polling was delayed due to technical snags in electronic voting machines (EVMs) at four polling stations — Sardhana, Baghpat, Hathras and Noida. […]
UP polls: Candidates confident of win
Prominent candidates in the fray in the first phase of Uttar Pradesh elections on Saturday exuded confidence of victory. Talking to reporters Pradip Mathur, the leader of Congress legislature party in the outgoing assembly said that people were in favour of the Congress-Samajwadi Party (SP) alliance and he will win with a wide margin. Mathur […]
BJP MLA kin held with pistol in polling booth
Gagan Som, brother of senior BJP leader and Sardhana legislator Sangeet Som was detained on Saturday after a pistol was recovered from him, a police officer said. Som was detained by the police personnel on duty in Faridpur. Spotting the pistol, the security personnel whisked Som away from inside the booth. An official told IANS […]
Buying support lifts Indian equities
Indian equities markets traded on a flat-to-positive note during the early morning trade session on Friday, as healthy buying was witnessed in consumer durables, banking and IT stocks. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) inched up by 9.80 points or 0.11 per cent, to 8,788.20 points. The barometer 30-scrip sensitive index […]
Global uncertainty on energy was pronounced in 2016: Saudi oil expert
The year gone by was marked by huge uncertainty on the energy front with anti-globalisation events on one hand conflicting with the interconnectedness of the market as demonstrated by the volatility in global oil prices, a renowned Saudi expert on the oil industry said here. “The sheer volume of unexpected events in 2016 is overwhelming […]
‘Raincoat’ jibe due to PM’s ‘peculiar imagination’: Yechury
Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Sitaram Yechury on Thursday said that the “raincoat” jibe at former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh probably came of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “peculiar imagination”. “I think the raincoat example came out of the peculiar type of imagination that the Prime Minister has,” Yechury said half jokingly while speaking with […]