Markets open on high note

Markets open on high note

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 opened at a high of 35,330.14. It touched a low of 35,251.34. The Sensex was trading at 35,316.07 up by 171.58 points or 0.53 per cent from its Tuesday’s close at […]

Rain, snow to continue in J&K till Thursday

Rain, snow to continue in J&K till Thursday

Fresh snowfall and rains occurred in the mountains of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, as the Met forecast scattered rains and snow to continue till Thursday. There would be some improvement in the weather after Thursday, the weather official said, adding that the state has so far received 83.5 mm rainfall between October 1 and […]

Facebook blocks more accounts for malicious activities

Facebook blocks more accounts for malicious activities

The Facebook crackdown on accounts engaged in “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” on its platform and on Instagram continues. “Combined with our takedown last Monday, we have removed 36 Facebook accounts, six Pages and 99 Instagram accounts for coordinated inauthentic behaviour,” Nathaniel Gleicher, Head of Cybersecurity Policy, said in a blog post on Wednesday. These accounts were […]

Melania wants WH aide fired

Melania wants WH aide fired

US First Lady Melania Trump has called for a top national security aide to President Donald Trump to be fired, media reports said. “It is the position of the Office of the First Lady that Mira Ricardel, the deputy national security adviser, no longer deserves the honour of serving in this White House,” her spokeswoman […]

Deepika, Ranveer set for ‘band, baaja, baaraat’ in Italy

Deepika, Ranveer set for ‘band, baaja, baaraat’ in Italy

A six year-long love story will culminate with a wedding on Wednesday when actors Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh tie the knot in a dreamy Lake Como setting in Italy amidst a tight circle of family and friends. The actors, adored for their on-screen chemistry in movies like “Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela” and “Bajirao Mastani”, […]

Maoist attacks in Chhattisgarh, 6 injured

Maoist attacks in Chhattisgarh, 6 injured

Maoists carried out two simultaneous attacks here on Wednesday injuring four Border Security Force (BSF) troopers, a civilian and one District Reserve Guard in one of the attacks, police said. The Left wing extremists, who had asked citizens to boycott the poll process going on in the state, carried out the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) […]

Carjacking ignites Pathankot-like attack fear in Punjab

Carjacking ignites Pathankot-like attack fear in Punjab

 A massive search operation is on here in the frontier areas in Punjab on Wednesday after four suspected terrorists hijacked a taxi at gunpoint causing fears of a Pathankot airbase-like attack that took place in 2016. The taxi, a silver-coloured Toyota Innova, was initially hired by the four men from Jammu. They had booked it […]

Karnataka celebrates Tipu Jayanti as CM stays away

Karnataka celebrates Tipu Jayanti as CM stays away

Karnataka on Saturday celebrated the 269th birth anniversary of erstwhile Mysore (Mysuru) ruler Tipu Sultan and the one person who was conspicuously missing from the festivities was Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy. Even Deputy Chief Minister G. Parameshwara, who was slated to inaugurate the state celebrations here, did not make it to the event. Security was […]

Soldier killed in Pakistan firing on LoC

Soldier killed in Pakistan firing on LoC

An Indian Army soldier was killed on Saturday in a Pakistani ceasefire violation on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, a defence officer said. “The Pakistan Army resorted to unprovoked ceasefire violation in Sunderbani at around 9.45 a.m.,” Defence Ministry spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Devender Anand said. The soldier succumbed to […]

AI tools may fail during key medical diagnosis: Researchers

AI tools may fail during key medical diagnosis: Researchers

In a first such warning when it comes to the role of Artificial Intelligence in making sense of critical health data, a team of US researchers has said AI in the medical space must be carefully tested for performance across a wide range of populations as the deep learning models may fall short. The findings […]