New Delhi, 14/5:In the backdrop of spiralling prices, India has banned the export of wheat with immediate effect. In a late Friday night notification, the ministry of commerce said the exports of the commodity will only be allowed on the basis of permission already granted to other countries to meet their food security…
Delhi, 14/5: Charred human remains were found on Saturday on the second floor of the building in outer Delhi’s Mundka area where a massive fire broke out a day back, Delhi Fire Service officials said. Twenty-seven people have died so far in the blaze that ripped through the four-storey building on Friday. The…
Ahmedabad, 14/5: In what could be one of the biggest setbacks for Gujarat Congress before the Assembly polls, its state working president Hardik Patel, the poster boy of the Patidar agitation movement, is said to be resigning from the party soon. Sources close to him said that “the impasse between Hardik and Congress…
J&K, 13/5: Two militants affiliated with the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) outfit, who had recently infiltrated into Kashmir, were killed in an encounter with security forces in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Friday. Police said the encounter erupted after security forces launched a cordon-and-search operation in Brar in the Aragam area of Bandipora following…
Mumbai, 3/5: An NCP youth wing leader on Friday approached the cyber cell of Mumbai police seeking action against the BJP for uploading an alleged edited version of Sharad Pawar’s recent speech in order to portray him as a “Hindu hater”. The @BJP4Maharashtra on Wednesday tweeted a short video of the speech and…
Washington DC, 13/5: Elon Musk said on Friday he was putting a temporary halt on his much-anticipated deal to buy Twitter, sending shares in the social media giant plunging. Musk, the world’s richest man and founder of automaker Tesla, had made the eradication of spam accounts and bots one of the centerpieces of his…
Washington DC, 13/5: Elon Musk on Friday put his $44-billion deal for Twitter Inc temporarily on hold, citing pending details in support of calculation that spam and fake accounts indeed represent less than 5 per cent of users. Shares of the social media company fell 17.7 per cent to $37.10 in premarket trading,…
New Delhi, 13/5: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia has written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah urging him to stop the “destruction” ensuing in the national capital due to the anti-encroachment drive being carried out by the three BJP-ruled municipal bodies. In an online briefing, Sisodia claimed that the civic bodies have…
Colombo, 13/5:Sri Lanka’s new prime minister was struggling Friday to forge a unity government and forestall an imminent economic collapse after a senior opposition figure refused to helm the finance ministry. Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in late on Thursday to navigate his country through the worst downturn in its history as an independent nation,…
New Delhi, 13/5: With headline inflation accelerating to an eight-year high of 7.79 per cent in April, ratings agency Crisil said price rise is getting broad-based, and the Reserve Bank is likely to respond with rate hikes of up to 1 percentage point in FY23. The research wing of the entity said it now…
