Mumbai, 6/3: Markets opened on a positive note on Monday with Sensex up 514.97 points to 60,323.94 in early trade. Meanwhile, Nifty rose 149.95 points to 17,744.30. D-Street was aided by a rise in high-weightage financial and information technology stocks after strong economic data from the United States and investment in the Adani…
Mumbai, 6/3: Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan on Monday said that he sustained serious injuries and hurt his rib cartilage while shooting a scene. “In Hyderabad at shoot for Project K, during an action shot, got injured, rib cartilage popped broke & muscle tear to the right rib cage. Cancelled shoot, did doctor consult…
New Delhi, 5/3: Sounding a note of caution, former Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan has said that India is “dangerously close” to the Hindu rate of growth in view of subdued private sector investment, high interest rates and slowing global growth. Rajan said that sequential slowdown in the quarterly growth, as revealed by…
Mumbai, 5/3: Fixing is the “proverbial tip of the huge iceberg of corruption” in cricket and a major revamp of the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to check illegal practices is the need of the hour, writes retired IPS officer and the Unit’s former head Neeraj Kumar….
Mumbai, 5/3: The Adani group, whose mostly debt-fueled breakneck expansion saw gross debt doubling in four years, has almost $2 billion worth of foreign-currency bonds coming up for repayment in 2024, according to a presentation the conglomerate made to investors. The apples-to-airport conglomerate borrowed over $10 billion in foreign currency bonds between July 2015…
Islamabad, 5/3: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan is likely to be arrested in Toshakhana case on Sunday as the Islamabad police reached Lahore with the deposed premier’s arrest warrant, local media reported. A non-bailable arrest warrant had been issued against Khan by a district and sessions court in the federal capital on February 28….
Paris, 5/3: Kylian Mbappe became Paris Saint-Germain’s all-time leading scorer when he netted in added time of the 4-2 win over Nantes in the French league. Producing the sixth and last goal of the match gave Mbappe his 201st goal for PSG and eclipsed Edinson Cavani’s record. The third consecutive win moved…
New Delhi, 5/3: More than three years after it broke out, a professional umbrella organisation of doctors on Sunday has called upon the World Health Organisation and Indian government to officially announce the end of the Covid-19 pandemic and the withdrawal of all restrictions. The Organised Medicine Academic Guild (OMAG), the apex federation of 15…
Kathmandu, 5/3: Even as Nepal suffers from the economic fallout of the Ukraine conflict in terms of higher food, fuel and fertilizer costs and reduced growth on the one hand and is buffeted by the US-China contestation for influence witnessed in the acrimonious debates on the US-sponsored MCC (Millennium Challenge Corporation) versus Chinese BRI (Belt…
New Delhi, 5/3: A passenger of a New York-New Delhi American Airlines flight has allegedly urinated on a fellow male passenger on board in a drunken state, sources said on Sunday. The incident allegedly took place on flight number AA292, which took off from New York at 9:16 pm on Friday and landed…
