Bhubaneswar, Dec 5 (IANS) The authority of Dhenkanal district headquarters hospital in Odisha on Thursday disengaged a contractual sweeper for administering injection to a patient, the video of which has gone viral. The on-duty staff nurse was also sent on leave and a show-cause notice has been issued in this[Read More…]
Panaji, Dec 5 (IANS) A survey worker was injured on Thursday, after he was electrocuted, while conducting a survey of the Sonsodo garbage dump in South Goa, which incidentally also caught fire following the sparks emanating from the incident. While the survey worker has been hospitalised is out of danger,[Read More…]
Mumbai, Dec 5 (IANS) Bankers and industry were surprised and disappointed on Thursday at the RBI maintaining its key interest rates unchanged, when they had been expecting the repo, or the central bank’s short-term lending rate, to fall below the current 5.15 per cent even as the second quarter GDP[Read More…]
New Delhi/Lucknow, Dec 5 (IANS) After the Samajwadi Party (SP) demanded the President rule and dismissal of the Yogi Adityanath-led government in UP over the law and order situation, the Congress said the SP had woken up late. The Congress said it had been raising the issue of the state[Read More…]
Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 5 (IANS) The Kerala police on Thursday arrested the Trivandrum Press Club secretary M. Radhakrishnan after his woman colleague complained of moral policing by him. According to the complainant, on Saturday night Radhakrishnan arrived at the house of his woman colleague, allegedly after he was told that another[Read More…]
Kolkata, Dec 5 (IANS) Angered over a “deathly silence” greeting him during a pre-announced visit to the state Assembly where he could not enter through the gate earmarked for him as it was locked, West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday described the chain of events as “threat to democracy”[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) Indian cricket great Kapil Dev on Thursday said that England’s fast bowling legend Bob Willis was a ‘terror to face’. Kapil also said that Willis, who has died aged 70, was the only one to ever hit him with the ball. “It was a very[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) Commercial banks gave loans to every Tom, Dick, Harry, ‘Jija’ (brother-in-law) and ‘Bhatija’ (nephew) during the UPA-II regime, leaving a huge burden on the next government, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. Replying to members on the Taxation Laws[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) With outrage over the barbaric gang rape and murder of a veterinary doctor in Hyderabad reaching a boiling point, YouTube sensation Bhuvan Bam has come up with a video “My Duty”, emphasising on what is needed more than just expressing anger. In the five minute[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) The Delhi Cabinet has approved to install three CCTV cameras, 10 panic buttons and an automatic vehicle location system in each of the existing 5,500 DTC and cluster buses, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Thursday. Addressing the media, Kejriwal said the project is estimated[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) It’s once again ‘Pariksha Pe Charcha (PPC)’ time and a possible interaction with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in January 2020 for students of classes IX to XII. The Prime Minister on Thursday hit the Twitter mode, inviting schoolchildren across the nation to participate in the[Read More…]
Hyderabad, Dec 5 (IANS) Alleging that indiscriminate sale of liquor in Telangana is the main reason for growing crime against women, a woman leader of opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday announced she will undertake two-day fast demanding prohibition in the state. D.K. Aruna said she would observe fast[Read More…]
Mumbai, Dec 5 (IANS) Zee Studios, who released the film “Hotel Mumbai” in India, have brought together real-life heroes across walks of life for their campaign Bharat Salaam. “Hotel Mumbai” showcased the courage shown by ordinary people like the staff of The Taj Mahal Palace hotel which came under major[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) The three-party alliance in Maharashtra is likely to face the first political test next week when the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) comes up for discussion in Parliament, The Congress would talk to Shiv Sena supremo Uddhav Thackeray on opposing the Bill, said a top party[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday told Parliament that the government had been working on a Rs 14,000 crore scheme with the assistance of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank to remove “black spots” – which are vulnerable to accidents[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka could follow in the footsteps of Gujarat and Chhattisgarh to declare a ‘no new coal’ policy, a new analysis said on Thursday. This implies these states will not need any new coal power plants in the future, and all of[Read More…]
Kohima, Dec 5 (IANS) Kolkata’s Sandeep Mukherjee, one of the top rated TSD rallyists of the country, lived upto his reputation, successfully claiming the 10th JK Tyre Hornbill Motor Rally title that culminated in Kohima on Thursday. Competing in the open category, Sandeep (with navigator Prakash M) was at his[Read More…]
Chennai, Dec 5 (IANS) Britsh Grandmaster and Vice President of FIDE, the global chess governing body, Nigel Short on Thursday alleged that the Indian chess federation was functioning in a manner that went against the players’ interests. Further, while the Indian government accuses Pakistan of waging a proxy war through[Read More…]
Mumbai, Dec 5 (IANS) The surprise decision by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to take a “temporary pause” in reducing key lending rates and its revising the country’s projected GDP growth rate to a seven-year-low of 5 per cent caught the Indian equity markets off-guard on Thursday. Consequently, both[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) Twitter users on Thursday vent their anger over the burning of a rape survivor in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao, blaming the Yogi Adityanath-led state government for the gory crime. #Unnao trended on Twitter with 11.6K tweets. A user retweeted a news report that the 23-year-old woman[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) The Reserve Bank of India on Thursday noted that in the credit market, the 1-year median marginal cost of funds-based lending rate (MCLR) has declined by 49 basis points and the weighted average lending rate (WALR) on fresh rupee loans sanctioned by banks declined by[Read More…]
Mumbai, Dec 5 (IANS) Raising concerns of higher inflation in the near term, Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das on Thursday observed that recent announcements by the telecom operators to raise tariffs will add to the inflation rate in the country. In a surprise move, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) While cricket dominates the sporting arena in India, football national coach Igor Stimac feels pride in training the Blue Tigers and feels the nation has the potential to produce some great talents in the game. “I’ve loved every second so far,” Stimac told FIFA.com. “It[Read More…]
Mumbai, Dec 5 (IANS) Singer Armaan Malik says he went through a lot of bullying during his school days. “I have gone through a lot of bullying in my school days. Not many people know that, but now through all these activities that I’m doing (on his social media), I[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) Ransomware attacks are set to morph into two-stage extortion campaigns and criminals will exploit their extortion victims even more in 2020, cyber security company McAfee said on Thursday. According to McAfee’s “Advanced Threat Research (ATR)”, the rise of targeted ransomware has created a growing demand[Read More…]
