Indian equity markets were on Tuesday buoyed by strong buying support across sectors, coupled with positive global cues and an appreciating rupee. Both the key Indian indices closed the day’s trade with substantial gains — surging more than 1.5 per cent each — to touch new intra-day highs, with healthy buying witnessed in automobile, banking […]
The Defence Ministry said on Tuesday that the newly-inked India-US military logistics agreement will work only on mutual consent, and clarified that it does not provide for setting up of bases or an obligation to carry out joint activities. “Defence cooperation between India and the United States has never been stronger than it is today,” […]
The West Bengal Assembly on Monday passed a resolution proposing the name of the state be changed to ‘Bangla’ in Bengali or ‘Bengal’ in English. However, the government resolution under rule 169 – moved by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Partha Chattopdhyay – eluded a consensus, as none of the opposition parties – Congress, Left Front and […]
The Home Ministry-appointed expert committee, which was to explore alternatives to pellet guns as non-lethal weapons to deal with protestors in the Kashmir Valley, submitted its report to the central government on Monday. “A seven-member Expert Committee under the chairmanship of T.V.S.N. Prasad, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, for exploring the other possible alternatives […]
Delhi Public School (Vasundhara) in Ghaziabad has expelled a class 7 student after her father filed a petition in Allahabad High Court against an “arbitrary” fee hike by the school, alleged the father on Monday. Ananya Bhatnagar was on Friday handed over her Transfer Certificate and asked to leave the school. The school management could […]
West Bengal CID sleuths on Sunday detained one person as they took over the probe into the fire that left two dead and seven injured at a state-run medical college in Murshidabad district. A CID team, led by its Deputy Inspector General B.L. Meena visited the Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital in Baharampur and spoke […]
Two minor boys were apprehended on Sunday for allegedly gang-raping a minor girl for the last one month, police said. The two minors were apprehended from the Batla House area after the girl’s mother filed a complaint against them at the Jamia Nagar police station on Saturday evening, a senior police officer told IANS. Both […]
The oil tanker association in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday announced it was again suspending fuel supplies to the Valley. Anan Sharma, president of the All Jammu and Kashmir Oil Tankers Association, told reporters here that oil tankers and their drivers had been attacked in the Valley despite assurances from the state government. “Our drivers, […]
Former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who is also the Congress’s presumptive chief ministerial candidate in Uttar Pradesh, fell ill on Saturday during the ’27 Saal, UP Behaal’ campaign and had to cut short her trip. Accompanied by senior leaders the septuagenarian Dikshit was in Kushinagar when she started feeling uneasy, a party leader told […]
Amid nationwide outrage over a tribal man walking 10 km with his wife’s body on his shoulders in Odisha’s Kalahandi district, the state government on Saturday said such incidents would not get repeated in future. “The state government is concerned over the unfortunate incident. We are working so that such incidents do not recur in […]