London, 14/10: Newly appointed UK finance minister Jeremy Hunt is a mild-mannered political survivor who will require all of his considerable experience to calm an economy and government beset by chaos. Mr Hunt, 55, was health minister under David Cameron, and foreign minister under Theresa May, but found himself on the sidelines after Boris…
Thiruvananthapuram,14/10: Actor-turned-politician and former Rajya Sabha member Suresh Gopi will be inducted into the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Kerala core committee. The move to include Gopi in the highest decision-making body of the party’s state cadre is being seen as a part of BJP’s efforts to make inroads into Kerala politics. The actor had contested…
Bhubaneswar, 14/10: As many as 384 Banking Assistants were inducted today in 15 District Central Co-operative Banks in presence of Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik. Besides, he also launched online operations in Primary Agriculture Cooperative Societies. With this, 2063 PACS came under the Core Banking Solution platform. Speaking on the occasion, the…
Washington DC, 14/10: Elon Musk is being investigated by federal authorities over his conduct in his $44 billion takeover deal for Twitter Inc, the social media company said in a court filing released on Thursday. While the filing said he was under investigations, it did not say what the exact focus of the…
New Delhi,13/10:A girl child has the right to wear hijab in her house or outside, and that right does not stop at her school gate, Supreme Court Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia declared on Thursday. “The child carries her dignity and her privacy even when she is inside the school gates, in her classroom. She…
Mumbai, 13/10: Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday wrote to the Election Commission of India raising objection to the recent decisions of the ECI in the matter of allotment of party election symbols and names to two Shiv Sena factions, ANI reported. In a letter to ECI, Thackeray said, “Several communications and actions of the…
J&K, 13/10: Just a day after the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) administration started enrolling outsiders who had lived more than one year in the Union Territory (UT) as voters the order was revoked in a late-night notification after opposition by most political parties. On Tuesday Deputy Commissioner Jammu issued an order authorising tehsildars…
Bangalore, 13/10: Calls to do away with the 4 per cent reservation exclusively given to Muslims under the OBC category in Karnataka are growing within the ruling BJP. Following the ban on Popular Front of India (PFI), the theory doing the rounds within the ruling BJP is that doing away with reservation for…
New Delhi, 12/10: MiG 29K combat jet crashed into the Arabian Sea after developing a technical snag on Wednesday. The pilot ejected safely and was rescued by the Navy team. A Board of Inquiry (BoI) has been ordered to investigate the cause of the incident
New Delhi, 12/10: India is talking to different countries to make Rupay acceptable in their nations, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Tuesday. “Not just that, the UPI (Unified Payments Interface), the BHIM app, and NCPI (the National Payments Corporation of India) are all now being worked in such a way that…
