Mumbai, Oct 4 (IANS) Key Indian equity indices provisionally closed on a higher note on Wednesday as positive global cues, coupled with healthy buying in healthcare, oil and gas and FMCG stocks buoyed investors’ sentiments….
New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) Recent reports that Tata Teleservices is headed for closure has once again underlined the tremendous stress India’s telecom sector is under — and the need for quick government intervention to…
Mumbai, Oct 4 (IANS) Rising inflationary pressure and concerns over “fiscal slippage” prompted India’s central bank, the RBI, on Wednesday to maintain its key lending rates. However, the central bank eased liquidity constraints, but also…
Chennai, Oct 4 (IANS) The Madras High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition objecting to the constitution of an inquiry commission led by a retired judge to probe then Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J, Jayalalithaa’s…
Kanpur, Oct 4 (IANS) A massive explosion here on Wednesday killed two persons, razed a building and damaged many houses, police said. The incident occurred at one Raghunath Singh’s house in Maharajpur’s Sarsaul in Uttar…
Panchkula (Haryana), Oct 4 (IANS) Jailed Dera sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh’s close aide Honeypreet Insan was on Wednesday sent to six days police remand by a court in Panchkula. The Haryana Police had…
Stockholm, Oct 4 (IANS) The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for the development of cryo-electron microscopy, which both simplifies and improves the imaging of biomolecules….
Mumbai, Oct 4 (IANS) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday lowered the country’s growth projection for 2017-18, pegging the Gross Value Added (GVA) at 6.7 per cent. The central bank had earlier estimated…
Dhaka, Oct 4 (IANS) Around 10,000 Rohingyas are stranded in the no-man’s land between Myanmar and Bangladesh, where they are being aided by the International Committee of the Red Cross, local authorities said on Wednesday….
Jammu, Oct 4 (IANS) Three Indian soldiers were injured on Wednesday in Pakistani shelling and firing on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district. Defence Ministry sources said here that the…
Djibouti, Oct 4 (IANS) President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday held delegation-level talks with his Djiboutian counterpart Omar Guelleh and discussed maritime cooperation and renewable energy among other issues. “#PresidentKovind accorded ceremonial welcome by President…
Panchkula (Haryana), Oct 4 (IANS) A day after her arrest, jailed Dera sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh’s close aide Honeypreet Insan was on Tuesday produced in a court in Panchkula town in Haryana, adjoining…
Chandigarh, Oct 4 (IANS) Two female disciples who were raped by self-styled godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh have moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking life imprisonment for him as the 20-year jail term…
Mumbai, Oct 4 (IANS) Rising inflationary pressure and concerns over “fiscal slippage” prompted India’s central bank, the RBI, on Wednesday to maintain its key lending rates. According to the Reserve Bank of India’s fourth bi-monthly…
Mumbai, Oct 4 (IANS) Key Indian equity indices surged to trade on a higher note on Wednesday after the country’s central bank maintained its key lending rates prompted by rising inflationary pressure. According to the…
Mumbai, Oct 4 (IANS) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday lowered the country’s growth projection for 2017-18, pegging the gross value added (GVA) to fall to 6.3 per cent. The central bank had…
Panaji, Oct 4 (IANS) Government offices in Goa will soon ban all plastic from their premises as part of a Swachh Bharat initiative, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Wednesday. Parrikar said he exhorted government…
Las Vegas, Oct 4 (IANS) Investigators trying to determine what sparked the Las Vegas mass shooting carried out by gunman Stephen Paddock have said the massacre which claimed 58 lives was meticulously planned with the…
Agra, Oct 4 (IANS) The Samajwadi Party, ousted from power in Uttar Pradesh, will hold its national convention in this Taj city on Thursday. The meeting will take place at the Central Telegraph ground in…
Mumbai, Oct 4 (IANS) Rising inflationary pressure prompted India’s central bank, the RBI, on Wednesday to maintain its key lending rates. According to the Reserve Bank of India’s fourth bi-monthly monetary policy review of 2017-18,…