Dispur, 9/12: The Assam government said it will conduct a socio-economic assessment of indigenous Assamese Muslims of the state The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday. “A socio-economic assessment of indigenous Assamese Muslims will be conducted through the Directorate of Minority Affairs and Char Areas,”…
Pune, 9/12: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is conducting raids at over 40 locations in Karnataka and Maharashtra in an ISIS terror-conspiracy case, reports news agency ANI. Of the total 44 locations being raided by the NIA since this morning, the agency has searched one place in Karnataka, two in Pune, 31 in Thane rural,…
Moscow, 8/12: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday told soldiers who had fought in the Ukraine war that he would run for president again in the 2024 election, a move that will allow the former KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti) spy to stay in power untill 2030. Putin, who was handed the presidency by Boris Yeltsin…
Bhubaneswar, 8/12: BSKY has become the saviour for poor and helpless. It has provided super speciality clinical care to the poor in the hospitals both inside and outside the State of Odisha. Miss Divya Seth of village Ambapalli in Bargarh district says, “ My sister Sneha Seth ( 14 years) suffered from blood cancer since…
Mumbai, 8/12: Equity benchmark Nifty scaled the psychological milestone of 21,000 in afternoon trade on Friday, and the Sensex touched its all-time intraday high of 69,888.33 after the central bank’s decision to keep policy rates unchanged in line with market expectations. The 50-share benchmark index opened on a bullish note, after taking a breather on…
Mumbai, 8/12: In a major decision, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday announced to raise the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) payment limit to hospitals and educational institutions to Rs 5 lakh from Rs 1 lakh presently and hiked the cap for e-mandates for recurring payments to Rs 1 lakh. Unveiling the December bi-monthly…
New Delhi, 8/12: Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra was on Friday expelled from the Lok Sabha in the ‘cash for query’ matter. The Ethics Committee report was tabled in the House today.
Mumbai, 8/12: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) kept the key lending rate unchanged on Friday with inflation control remaining a major focus amid expectations of a spike in food prices in coming months and better than expected economic growth. The six-member monetary policy committee (MPC), consisting of three RBI and three external members, kept…
Hyderabad, 8/12: Ex-Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao was admitted to the Yashoda Hospital in Telangana on Friday. The BRS party chief is suspected to have fractured his hip at his Erravelli farm house. Doctors are evaluating the condition of the BRS president, who is aged 69, and it might require a surgery, the sources…
New Delhi, 7/12: BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri on Thursday expressed regret for his remarks against BSP’s Danish Ali in a meeting of the Lok Sabha Privileges Committee, which heard both leaders separately. Sources said Bidhuri in his deposition before the committee noted that senior BJP leader and Union minister Rajnath Singh had conveyed his regret…
