New Delhi, 4/6: The BJP on Thursday announced candidates for upcoming Rajya Sabha polls in five states, fielding party national general secretary Tarun Chugh from Madhya Pradesh and Satish Poonia from Rajasthan. The names of Union ministers Ravneet Singh Bittu and George Kurian did not figure in the list of BJP candidates. Both ministers’ term…
New, 4/6: Commerce & Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Thursday that India will implement at least two to three free trade agreements (FTAs) over the next six months, while another 3-4 such pacts are expected to come into force in 2027. In the last three-and-a-half years, Goyal said, India has finalised nine FTAs including…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday said the plea of the Wrestling Federation of India against the Delhi High Court order allowing wrestler Vinesh Phogat to participate in selection trials has become infructuous in view of subsequent developments. A bench of Justices PS Narasimha and Aravind Kumar, which refused to go into the observations…
Patna, 4/6: A massive fire broke out in the ICU ward of Prasad Hospital in Muzaffarpur, Bihar on Thursday morning, June 4, leaving at least three people dead and several others injured, ANI reported Muzaffarpur District Magistrate Subrat Kumar Sen said firefighters rushed to the spot and have brought the blaze under control. According to…
New Delhi3/6: A raging fire in a ‘bed and breakfast’ hotel operating without a fire NOC in a congested bylane in south Delhi on Wednesday morning snuffed out lives from 21 people, including 11 foreigners who came to India as bystanders for their relatives undergoing treatment in nearby hospitals.The blaze broke out at the Flourish…
New Delhi, 3/6: At least 21 people, many of them from Central Asia and Africa, were killed in a tragic fire in a bed and breakfast hotel in south Delhi on Wednesday morning, officials said. The fire broke at Flourish Stay B&B in Malviya Nagar at around 8:48 AM following which eight fire tenders were…
Bengaluru, 3/6: Congress veteran D K Shivakumar took oath as the 24th chief minister of Karnataka on Wednesday at a ceremony held at the Lok Bhavan in Bengaluru. He was admitted the oath of office and secrecy by Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot. Senior Congress leader G Parameshwara also took oath as a minister in the D…
Kolkata,3/6As many as 58 dissident TMC MLAs backed expelled legislator Ritabrata Banerjee as the leader of the legislature party and conveyed their decision to West Bengal Assembly Speaker Rathindra Bose on Wednesday, a move that could redraw the opposition’s power structure in the house.Sources said that Banerjee, along with fellow rebel MLA Sandipan Saha and…
Washington DC, 3/6: The US Trade Representative (USTR) has proposed slapping 12.5 per cent additional duties on 54 countries, including India, for failing to prohibit the import of goods produced with forced labour. The action comes after investigations were launched against 60 countries over what the USTR described as their failure to impose and effectively…
New Delhi, 3/6′:The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may have offloaded a portion of its gold holdings to shield its foreign-currency assets from the cascading fallout of the war in the Middle East, according to an analysis by Bloomberg Economics based on publicly available data. The RBI likely sold gold reserves worth roughly $12 billion…
