New Delhi, 19/7: The Indian rupee touched another record low as foreign investors continued to sell the nation’s equities. The rupee declined to 80.06 per US dollar on Tuesday. The currency has been buffeted by nearly $30 billion of foreign outflows from the nation’s equities so far this year — a record sum —…
New Delhi, 18/7: Suspended BJP leader Nupur Sharma has once again approached the Supreme Court seeking stay on her arrest following her remarks against Prophet Muhammed in a TV debate. In her fresh plea, she contended that following the strong remarks against her by the top court earlier, she had received renewed rape…
Durham, 18/7: England’s Ben Stokes has announced he will retire from one-day international cricket after Tuesday’s match against South Africa on his Durham home ground. The all-rounder, 31, said playing three international formats — Twenty20, 50-over ODIs and Tests — was now “unsustainable”. Stokes, who captain’s the England Test team, will take the field…
Patna, 18/7: Voting began in Bihar Assembly here at 10 a.m. on Monday to elect the 15th president of the country from among NDA nominee Droupadi Murmu and UPA’s Yashwant Sinha. Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha was among the early voters. State Deputy Chief Minister Tarkishore Prasad and Leader of the Opposition Tejashwi Yadav…
New Delhi, 18/7: NCP MLA Kamlesh Singh on Monday took many in the political circle by surprise as he announced that he has voted for NDA Presidential nominee Droupadi Murmu. Elsewhere in Odisha, acting against party line, senior Congress MLA Mohammed Moquim also cast his vote in favour of Murmu, who is a…
Kerala, 18/7:A 31-year-old man who arrived in Kerala last week from Dubai has tested positive for monkeypox, state Health Minister Veena George said on Monday. This is the second case of monkeypox in the state as well as the country. The minister said the patient, who arrived in Kerala on July 13, was…
Madras, 18/7:The Madras High Court on Monday took strong objections to the violent incidents in Tamil Nadu’s Kallakurichi district on Sunday, and directed the state police chief to constitute a SIT to identify the rioters and take stern action against them. Appropriate criminal action should be taken against them following the Special Investigation Team (SIT)…
Washington DC, 18/7: Three people were killed at a mall in Greenwood, Indiana, in a mass shooting that ended when another armed individual fatally shot the gunman, city authorities said. Two additional people were hospitalised in the shooting, which began when a man with a rifle and several magazines of ammunition entered the…
New Delhi, 18/5: Around 4,800 elected MPs and MLAs on Monday will vote on choose the next President of India with the ruling NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu all set to romp home comfortably after parties holding around 60 per cent of votes in the electoral college pledging support to her over her rival Yashwant Sinha….
Mumbai, 17/7: Business tycoon Anand Mahindra has shared a picture of a ‘latest technology to dry clothes on Twitter, and it has left Twitter users amused and in splits. On the microblogging site, Mahindra posted a cartoon of two women conversing by an ordinary rope with washed clothes drying over it suspended from both ends…
