Mumbai, Aug 13 (IANS) Reliance Infrastructure (RInfra) on Tuesday reported a year-on-year rise of 211 per cent in its consolidated net profit for the first quarter of 2019-20. According to the company, its consolidated net profit during the quarter under review increased to Rs 299 crore from Rs 96 crore[Read More…]
Agra/Mathura, Aug 13 (IANS) The month of Shravan has won laurels for the UP Forest department’s anti-poaching drive, which supported by Wildlife SOS, has rescued 111 snakes from snake charmers in this area. On the last Monday of Shravan, 34 snakes were seized outside the Shiva temples in Agra. “Devotees[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) A fire broke out at the Gandhi Nagar market in the national capital on Tuesday. Twenty-one fire tenders have been rushed to the spot. There were no reports of any injury, fire officials said. According to a senior fire department official, they received a call[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed that data collected for publishing in the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam shall be kept as secure as the Aadhaar data. Spelling out directions to the State Coordinator, NRC, Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said” “With regard to[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) A 45-year-old sweeper was arrested for sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl inside a toilet of a school in Greater Kailash Part-II of South Delhi, a police officer said on Tuesday. The accused, Pinchumuttu, was arrested on Thursday from his residence in south Delhi. He was[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency on Tuesday said it has arrested an absconding Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) operative, wanted in the 2014 Burdwan blast case, from Madhya Pradesh’s Indore. The JMB operative was identified as Jahirul Sheikh, a resident of Nadia in West Bengal. An NIA official[Read More…]
Mumbai, Aug 13 (IANS) Demand for safe haven assets amid uncertain global business environment took the gold price to fresh highs on Tuesday. The precious metal hit a life-time high of Rs 38,666 per 10 gram after it had surpassed the Rs 38,000 mark for the first time last week.[Read More…]
Kolkata, Aug 13 (IANS) A Kolkata court on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant against Congress leader and former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor in a case filed over his remark last year that BJP’s victory in the 2019 general elections will turn the country into a “Hindu Pakistan”. The warrant has[Read More…]
New Delhi/Islamabad, Aug 13 (IANS) India and Pakistan will mark their respective Independence Days with events emphasising their territorial stamp on the two divided parts of Kashmir. While Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan will spend the day at Muzaffarabad, the capital of what it terms as ‘Azad Kashmir’, on independence[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) People opposed to abrogation of Article 370 have again been found to be sharing fake videos on social media. A video of a mock drill by the police in Maharashtra’s Amravati has now been passed off as army atrocities in Kashmir, fact-checking website Boom revealed[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) Three days after denying media reports that there were large-scale protests after Friday prayers in the Valley, the government on Tuesday acknowledged that there was an “incident” at Soura in Srinagar in which “miscreants mingled” with locals and resorted to stone pelting at security forces.[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) The government on Tuesday notified the scheme of partial credit guarantee for PSBs to buy pooled assets of NBFCs up to Rs 1 lakh crore, activating the announcement of the Budget on July this year to boost lendings to the cash strapped NBFCs. “This would[Read More…]
By Chandrakant Naidu Bhopal, Aug 13 (IANS) The Kamal Nath-led Madhya Pradesh government has borrowed heavily to come to terms with the financial crunch caused by farm loan waivers. While it borrowed Rs 1,000 crore earlier this month to sustain development schemes, the total borrowings since mid-December has been Rs[Read More…]
Berlin, Aug 13 (IANS) Croatian winger Ivan Perisic has moved from Inter Milan to Bayern Munich on a season-long loan deal, the German club announced on Tuesday. The 30-year-old, who has played 141 matches for Inter since joining the Italian club from Wolfsburg in 2015, strengthens a Bayern attack shorn[Read More…]
Pune, Aug 13 (IANS) A Maharashtra legal activist on Tuesday said that the Supreme Court must elevate and include a sitting judge from the Jammu and Kashmir High Court to hear the various petitions filed before the apex court challenging the government’s abrogation of Article 370 and deletion of 35A.[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) Fifty-year-old Sandhyawati could not walk straight for the last 15 years, she would only crawl reason being a rare rheumatoid arthritis in which her knees were permanently bent. Last month, she underwent a complex knee replacement surgery and her happiness has no limits. Sandhyawati, who[Read More…]
Jaipur, Aug 13 (IANS) Soon after the erstwhile royal families of Jaipur and Udaipur and a Congress spokesperson claimed to be the descendants of Lord Ram, the Rajasthan Transport Minister from the ruling Congress government on Tuesday joined this league, claiming that his family members are the descendants of Lord[Read More…]
By Sandeep Bamzai New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) One of the biggest decisions taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the first 75 days of his government is undoubtedly the unshackling of Jammu and Kashmir so that there is better integration and mobility and the faux concept of dual citizenship[Read More…]
Port of Spain, Aug 13 (IANS) Chinaman Kuldeep Yadav has become a major weapon in skipper Virat Kohli’s armory in limited overs cricket, showing immense potential in just a short period of time. Making his debut in June 2017 against the West Indies here, the left-arm spinner is on the[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath’s nephew, the industrialist Ratul Puri on Tuesday approached the Delhi High Court challenging the trial court order dismissing his anticipatory bail in a money laundering case relating to the AgustaWestland scam. The matter was first mentioned before a division[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) On Tuesday, the fifth day of hearing in the Ayodhya case at the Supreme Court, Hindus submitted that a temple was destroyed and a mosque was built over it. Such an act couldn’t deprive the deity and the temple of the ownership of the place,[Read More…]
Toronto, Aug 13 (IANS) Gitanjali Rao’s debut directorial feature film “Bombay Rose” will open Venice International Film Critics’ Week on August 29, before its North American premiere in Toronto on September 7. The film will premiere in the Contemporary World Cinema Strand at the Toronto Film Festival (TIFF) 2019 on[Read More…]
Chandigarh, Aug 13 (IANS) Reacting strongly to the highly provocative tweet by Pakistan minister Fawad Chaudhary, inciting mutiny among Punjabis in the Indian Army, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday asked Pakistan to mind its own business and keep out of India’s internal matters. “The Indian Army is a[Read More…]
Panaji, Aug 13 (IANS) A major tragedy was averted at Goa’s Dabolim International Airport early on Tuesday after an Air India passenger aircraft flying in from Mumbai was forced to abort landing at the last minute because of stray dogs trespassing into the runway, a statement issued by the Indian[Read More…]
By Sandeep Bamzai New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) On the 75th day of his second innings, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met IANS with a smiling visage. Having successfully piloted the revocation of the contentious Article 370 and Article 35A in a systematic and seamless manner which has not only blindsighted[Read More…]
