Mumbai, Aug 8 (IANS) Speculation about the roll-back of the budgetary proposal of a taxation surcharge on the super-rich category triggered a buying spree which lifted the Indian equity markets on Thursday. Additionally, attractive valuations buoyed the markets with the S&P BSE Sensex gaining 636.86 points, or 1.74 per cent,[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS) Ahead of the meeting of capital market representatives with the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday, highly-placed sources said the FPI tax issue is currently under discussion, but no decision has been taken with regard to its withdrawal. “It (FPI tax issue) might be under[Read More…]
Agra, Aug 8 (IANS) A plane carrying 30 prisoners from Kashmir landed at the Kheria airport here on Thursday afternoon from where they were shifted under heavy security to the central jail, 10 kms away. Senior police officials refused to comment. The route to the jail was secured with heavy[Read More…]
Mumbai, Aug 8 (IANS) Maharashtra is facing a severe flood situation after incessant rains for several days, especially in western districts. The Maharashtra Congress, here on Thursday, demanded that the army be called to help in relief and rescue operations in the flood-ravaged Kolhapur, Sangli and Satara districts. State Congress[Read More…]
Mumbai, Aug 8 (IANS) Phishing emails impacted one in two Indian organisations that were hit by a cyber attack and IT managers are inundated with cyber attacks coming from all directions as they struggle to keep up due to a lack of security expertise, budget and up-to-date technology, a new[Read More…]
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Moscow, Aug 8 (IANS) Two people were killed and four others injured in a liquid propellant jet engine blast at a military test site in Russia’s northern Arkhangelsk region, officials said. “During testing of a liquid jet engine an explosion and combustion of the product occurred,” said a statement by[Read More…]
London, Aug 8 (IANS) The global smartphone shipments declined for the seventh consecutive quarter. Shipments in the second quarter (Q2) of 2019 were down by 3.6 per cent to 331.2 million compared with Q2 of 2018, according to a IHS Markit report. But the combined share of the top-six firms[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS) After Pakistan announced it was “permanently discontinuing” the Samjhauta Express and the train with 110 passengers was stranded at its Wagah station, the Indian Railways brought the train to Attari in India after sending its locomotive and crew to the other side. Northern Railway spokesperson[Read More…]
Shimla, Aug 8 (IANS) Seven girl students of Lawrence School in Himachal Pradesh’s Sanawar have set out to capture Africa’s highest range – Mount Kilimanjaro – located at 5,895 metres above sea level, the school said on Thursday. The girls, aged between 15 and 18 years, were shortlisted on the[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS) India Open gold medalists Sarita Devi (60kg), Neeraj (57kg) and Jamuna Boro (54kg) find themselves among 10 women boxers selected to represent India as the three-day trials for the AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships came to an end at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium on[Read More…]
Geneva, Aug 8 (IANS) The target of keeping global warming below 2 degrees will not be possible without changes in land use, paired with new food consumption habits such as switching to a plant-based diet, a United Nations report said on Thursday. The special report on climate and land by[Read More…]
Patna, Aug 8 (IANS) Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad’s daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai appeared before a Patna family court on Thursday in connection with the hearing in the divorce case filed by her husband Tej Pratap Yadav. Aishwarya Rai reached the court along with her parents for the first[Read More…]
San Francisco, Aug 8 (IANS) Apple is reportedly gearing up to launch a foldable device in two years, more likely to be an iPad than an iPhone, analysts at Swiss investment bank UBS have predicted. According to the consumer survey, more than a third of Apple customers showed interest in[Read More…]
By Deepika Bhan New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS) The end of Article 370 heralds a new beginning for many Kashmiris, despite the doom and gloom in some quarters over its revocation. Now Kashmiris will not require any certificate to prove they are Kashmiris. This demise has given freedom from bondage,[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Thursday adjourned till August 13 a plea seeking postponing of the release date of the Hindi film “Batla House”. A single judge bench of Justice Vibhu Bakhru asked the petitioner to file an additional affidavit highlighting the relation between the[Read More…]
Mumbai, Aug 8 (IANS) Reliance Capital Ltd’s Board of Directors in their special review meeting here on Thursday noted that legal opinion from a reputed law firm confirmed that there was no violation attracting Section 143 (12) of the Companies Act as alleged by audit firm, Price Waterhouse & Co[Read More…]
New York, Aug 8 (IANS) Japan’s export curbs wouldn’t affect launch of premium smartphones, but it would certainly affect (the business) if prolonged, said DJ Koh, chief of Samsung IT and Mobile Division. Koh expressed concerns over rising uncertainties due to escalating trade war between China and the US, and[Read More…]
Bengaluru, Aug 8 (IANS) Genetic diagnostic and drug discovery research firm MedGeneome Labs on Thursday claimed to have developed the first whole genomic sequencing-based test to detect drug-resistant mutation in tuberculosis (TB) bacteria. “The breakthrough DNA test will enable a doctor to correctly prescribe the most effective drug to a[Read More…]
Mumbai, Aug 8 (IANS) Marathi actress Amita Khopkar, who has been part of films like “Gadar: Ek Prem Katha” and “Jogwa”, will be seen as a fun-loving and trendy grandmother in the television show “Tara from Satara”. Amita will essay the role of actor Upendra Limaye’s on-screen mother and ‘Aaji’[Read More…]
San Francisco, Aug 8 (IANS) Ahead of the launch of its 2019 line-up of iPhones, Apple has turned to a YouTube trend — called autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) — that has gone viral online, for its promotional videos. The first four ASMR videos posted on Apple’s official YouTube handle[Read More…]
Mumbai, Aug 8 (IANS) A two-day conference examining the Antiquities and Art Treasures Act, 1972, enacted to prevent smuggling and fraudulent dealings in Indian antiquities, will be opened here on Friday. The conference titled “Art Laws of India” will seek to de-construct the Act that governs the movement of Indian[Read More…]
Kolhapur/Sangli (Maharashtra), Aug 8 (IANS) At least 23 people have been killed, including 14 in Kolhapur and 12 in Sangli as a rescue boat capsized, as rains wreaked massive havoc in these Maharashtra districts since the past over one week, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said here on Thursday. Fadnavis was[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS) After veteran Congress leader Karan Singh on Thursday said there were “several positives” in the government decision on Jammu and Kashmir, his son Vikramaditya Singh fully backed the integration of J&K into the Indian Union. In a statement, Vikramaditya Singh, a former Member of the[Read More…]
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