Mumbai, 16/8: Benchmark BSE Sensex rose by over 379 points on Tuesday as gains in oil & gas, banking and auto shares helped the barometer continue winning run for the third straight session. The 30-share BSE benchmark index advanced 379.43 points or 0.64 per cent to settle at 59,842.21. During the day, it…
Kashmir, 16/8: The latest targeted killing of a Kashmiri Pandit (KP) farmer by militants in south Kashmir’s Shopian district has forced a community organisation to once again call for mass migration from the Valley. Kashmiri Pandit Sangarsh Samiti (KPSS), an organisation that represents the Pandits living in the Valley, in a statement said…
Mumbai, 16/8: An MLA from Maharashtra Chief Eknath Shinde-led faction has asked his supporters to beat up workers of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena amid the growing rift between the two groups. A video on Monday went viral on social media platforms wherein MLA Prakash Surve was also seen assuring his supporters to…
J&K, 16/8: In yet another targeted killing, a Kashmiri Pandit (Hindu) farmer was shot dead while his brother was injured after militants fired upon them in Chotigam village of south Kashmir’s Shopian district Tuesday. Reports said the siblings were working in their orchards when militants riding a motorcycle fired upon them from a close…
Patna, 16/8: The two-member ‘Mahagathbandhan’ government in Bihar comprising Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Prasad Yadav expanded its Cabinet to 31 on Tuesday. Tejashwi Yadav-helmed RJD bagged 16 berths in the Cabinet while Nitish’s party got 11. Tej Pratap Yadav, RJD leader and brother of Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav, was…
Kashmir, 16/8: At least seven Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel were killed while over two dozen were injured when a bus they were travelling in met with an accident near Chandanwari in Pahalgam area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Tuesday. Reports said the vehicle, carrying 37 ITBP jawans and two J&K police…
New Delhi, 16/8: India was on Tuesday suspended by world governing body FIFA for “undue influence from third parties” and stripped the country of the right to host the Under-17 Women’s World Cup, scheduled for October. This is the first time the All India Football Federation (AIFF) has been banned by FIFA in…
Washington DC, 16/8: US President Joe Biden believes that the India-US relationship is essential to global peace, stability and economic resilience, his top trade negotiator has said, noting that the two countries are now better placed to work on tough issuesPresident Biden believes that the relationship between our two great democracies is essential to global…
Gujarat, 15/8: All the eleven convicts sentenced to life imprisonment in the 2002 post-Godhra Bilkis Bano gang rape case on Monday walked out of the Godhra sub-jail after the Gujarat government allowed their release under its remission policy, an official said. A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Mumbai on January…
Pune, 15/8: Serum Institute of India’s (SII) Chief Executive Officer Adar Poonawalla said he expects an Omicron-specific vaccine in the country in six months, SII, the world’s biggest vaccine maker, produces AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine under the brand name Covishield. SII did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
