Mumbai, 24/3: Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty buckled under selling pressure for the second straight session to settle nearly 1 per cent lower on Friday as investors pared exposure to the metal, energy and realty stocks amid a bearish trend in Asian and European markets. Besides, a depreciating rupee against the US…
New Delhi, 24/3: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been disqualified as a member of the Lok Sabha from the date of his conviction by a Surat court in the criminal defamation case on March 23 over his ‘Modi surname’ remark. Rahul Gandhi… stands disqualified from the member of Lok Sabha from the date of his…
Mumbai, 24/3: Ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 that begins from March 31, Ashneer Grover’s new venture Third Unicorn has launched a fantasy sports app called CrickPe that aims to take on Dream11 and Mobile Premier League (MPL). “Biggest revolution in Cricket since IPL – only fantasy game paying cricketers for…
Thiruvananthapuram, 24/3: The Kerala High Court has stayed the capturing of a wild elephant in Idukki district of Kerala. Considering the petitions filed by animal rights forums, the court held a special session on Thursday evening and stayed till next Wednesday the forest department’s plans to capture the wild elephant. The…
Washington DC, 24/3: Block Inc. co-founder Jack Dorsey’s net worth was hammered after Hindenburg Research’s latest report, which alleged the payments company ignored widespread fraud. Dorsey’s fortune plunged by $526 million on Thursday, his worst single-day decline since May. He’s now worth $4.4 billion after the 11% drop, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires…
Mumbai, 24/3: Well-known filmmaker Pradeep Sarkar – who directed the musical romance film Parineeta – with Vidya Balan, Saif Ali Khan and Sanjay Dutt in lead roles in a the film adapted from the work of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay and Rani Mukherji-starrer Mardani – passed away in Mumbai on Thursday. He was 67. …
Bhubaneswar, 23/3: Chief Minister SRI Naveen Patnaik today felicitated Odisha FC’s Diego Mauricio, who won the coveted ISL 2022-23 Golden Boot award and congratulated Diego for his exemplary performance and contribution to the Odisha FC’s standing this season and wished him the best. They also posed with the ISL Golden Boot. Diego along…
Telengana, 23/3: Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president and party MP A Revanth Reddy on Thursday appeared before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing into the case of the question paper leak for a recruitment test conducted by the TSPSC, after being summoned to give evidence over his allegations in connection with the case. …
Bangalore, 23/3: Central PSU Power Finance Corporation Limited (PFC) has partnered with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) to establish a new facility to house the Interdisciplinary Centre for Energy Research (ICER). The state-of-the-art building, estimated to cost Rs 60 crore and to be constructed over two years, will foster fundamental and applied research…
Ahmedabad, 23/3: A Court in Gujarat’s Surat District today convicted Congress leader and MP Rahul Gandhi in a defamation case for his remarks “why all thieves share the Modi surname” made during a political campaign in Karol in April 2019. The Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate HH Varma sentenced him to two years in…
