Mumbai, Dec 10 (IANS) The benchmark Sensex closed 248 points lower on Tuesday while Yes Bank lost over 10 per cent ahead of its crucial board meeting. There was a broad based sell-off witnessed in the market with Nifty Midcap and Nifty smallcap down 1.3 per cent and 1.1 per[Read More…]
Mumbai, Dec 10 (IANS) Automobile major Tata Motors Group’s November global wholesales was lower by 15 per cent on a year-on-year (YoY) basis. According to the group, global wholesales including those for Jaguar Land Rover declined to 89,671 units during the month under review. “Global wholesales of all Tata Motors’[Read More…]
Mumbai, Dec 10 (IANS) Streaming platform Hotstar said on Tuesday that it has registered two times growth in installs this year compared to 2018, leading to over 400 million downloads so far. While the platform’s reach during this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL) went pass 300 million, 25.3 million live[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Automobile major Hyundai Motor India will hike prices across models effective from January 2020. According to the company, the price increase has been necessitated on account of rise in input and material costs. “The extent of price increase may vary for different models and fuel[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Delhi Transport Minister Kailash Gehlot here on Tuesday flagged off 100 buses from the Rajghat Bus Depot to be included in the DTC fleet. The new buses are equipped with GPS trackers, panic buttons, CCTV and hydraulic lifts for the convenience of the differently-abled. The[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party will start a fund raising campaign to gather money to fight the upcoming Assembly election in the national capital. Party chief Arvind Kejriwal, on Tuesday, called a meeting of all the MLAs, MPs and other office bearers to gear up[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Domestic automobile sales continued to decline in November with the overall sectoral off-take plunging 12.05 per cent on a year-on-year basis, data showed on Tuesday. According to the data furnished by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), the sector’s total sales declined to 17,92,415[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) IDBI Bank’s Board on Tuesday gave “in-principle approval” to divest its stake in IDBI Capital Market Securities (ICMS) and IDBI Intech Limited (IIL). According to a regulatory filing issued on Tuesday, the lender will divest its stake to the extent of 49 per cent to[Read More…]
Chennai, Dec 10 (IANS) The countdown for the Wednesday evening launch of India’s latest spy satellite RISAT-2BR1 and nine foreign satellites began at 4.40 p.m. on Tuesday at the Sriharikota rocket port in Andhra Pradesh. India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket was expected to blast off from the first[Read More…]
Bhopal, Dec 10 (IANS) The burnt body of a man tied with chains was found in a government school here on Tuesday. The police said the body was found in Panchsheel Nagar’s Sardar Patel School on Tuesday morning. The boyd was found near the store room of the school. Deputy[Read More…]
Kathmandu, Dec 10 (IANS) A planned tripartite meeting between Nepal, India and Bangladesh to fix the terms for power trade is in limbo with no word for the past two months from the Indian External Affairs Ministry which had proposed to host it. Nepal is in line to produce surplus[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Delhi is a gas chamber then why hand down death penalty, said Akshay Kumar Singh, one of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case, while moving the Supreme Court seeking review of its 2017 judgement of sentencing all the four convicts to[Read More…]
Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 10 (IANS) Kerala’s Loktantrik Janata Dal (LJD) and Janata Dal(S) have started unofficial talks to merge. Loktantrik Janata Dal (LJD) headed by media baron and Rajya Sabha member M.P. Veerendra Kumar and Janata Dal (S) led by senior legislator C.K. Nanu, are both allies of the CPI-M led[Read More…]
By Sfoorti Mishra New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Yet another incident of fratricidal firing has occurred. This time it took place at a Central Reserve Police Force camp near Bokaro, Jharkhand, where the CRPF was deployed on election duty. Two personnel, including an assistant commandant and an assistant sub-inspector, were[Read More…]
By Rohan Agarwal New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) While the Sunday’s fire at an illegally-run unit in the Anaj Mandi area of North-West Delhi that killed 43 people shocked the nation, IANS study of similar cases of the past two years points to loss of over 80 lives in similar[Read More…]
Kolkata, Dec 10 (IANS) A Kashmiri doctor, having a thriving practice in Kolkata, was blackmailed by four persons, including a woman, who demanded Rs 10 lakh from him after forcing him to disrobe and clicking his pictures with the woman, a police source said. The doctor, a resident of Tiljala,[Read More…]
Mumbai, Dec 10 (IANS) Actor Mohnish Bahl claims his role in Ashutosh Gowariker’s historical drama “Panipat” has been garnering a lot of praise, and says it is a “great feeling” to witness one’s work being appreciated. Mohnish plays Nanasaheb Peshwa in the film starring Arjun Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt and Kriti[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Paris-based independent content creation company Banijay Group, known for backing shows like “Survivor” and “Keeping Up With The Kardashians”, is planning to expand operations in India and South East Asia by bringing high-profile slate of action adventure shows to the subcontinent. Two of Banijay Group’s[Read More…]
London, Dec 10 (IANS) Believe it or not but our forefathers were way smarter than us when it came to wooing the opposite sex for mating. According to a new study, Neanderthals learnt how to smile and make expressive faces in order to attract less-aggressive mates. Researchers from the University[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Upping the ante against the passage of the contentious Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019 in the Lok Sabha, the Congress has urged its party leaders and workers to hold protests across the country on Wednesday. In a letter to all the state party chiefs, Congress General[Read More…]
Mumbai, Dec 10 (IANS) Actor Angad Bedi is not only aiming to get the look of a police officer right in upcoming series “MumBhai”, but also trying to bring back the 1990s vibe. The actor says the series will try to bring back the “alpha male” prototype as well. Post[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) The Railways will grant 50 per cent concession in 2nd/Sleeper Class category to devotees travelling to Varanasi to attend the celebrations in connection with the 643rd birth anniversary of Guru Ravidas, Union Minister Piyush Goyal has said. In a letter to his Cabinet colleague Harsimrat[Read More…]
New York, Dec 10 (IANS) Researchers at University of Texas Southwestern have developed a software tool that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to recognize cancer cells from digital pathology images – giving clinicians a powerful way of predicting patient outcomes. The spatial distribution of different types of cells can reveal a[Read More…]
Bengaluru, Dec 10 (IANS) The second Cabinet expansion of the over four-month-old BJP government in Karnataka would take place after party chief Amit Shah approved the names to be finalised soon, Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa said on Tuesday. “The Cabinet will be expanded soon after Shah and Prime Minister Narendra[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Qatar Museums will present ‘Where Cultures Meet: A Photographic Encounter Between Qatar and India at India Habitat Centre in the national capital from December 17 to January 12. The participating photographers include Hamad Al Shamari and Aisha Al Sadah from Qatar, and Ajeesh Puthiyadath and[Read More…]
