New Delhi, 28/7: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said Jan Dhan Yojana-led interventions and digital transformation have revolutionised financial inclusion in the country, as more than 50 crore people have been brought into the formal banking system with this scheme. On the ninth anniversary of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY), which is…
Budapest, 28/8: Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra on Sunday scripted history yet again as he became the first Indian to win a gold medal in the World Athletics Championships with a best throw of 88.17m in the men’s javelin final here. In another first, three Indians finished in top eight with Kishore Jena (84.77m) and DP…
Shahpur, 27/8: A 60-year-old woman was killed by a leopard in Shahpur village in Afzalgarh area here on Sunday, officials said. They said 14 people have so far been killed by the wild cat in the area. Gomti, wife of Yashpal, had gone to the forest. They said 14 people have so far been killed…
Mumbai, 27/8: Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday likened the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to an amoeba, saying that the BJP-led front does not have any definite shape and size. Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for calling the opposition INDIA alliance as “ghamandia” (marked by arrogance) and “Indian Mujahideen”, Thackeray…
New Delhi, 27/8: A payload onboard the Chandrayaan-3 lander has recorded, for the first time, temperature variations at different depths from the surface of the lunar south pole, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Sunday. ChaSTE (Chandra’s Surface Thermophysical Experiment) is designed to measure the temperature profile of the lunar topsoil around the…
Mumbai, 27/8: Stock exchanges have slapped fines on state-owned oil and gas firms including IOC, ONGC and GAIL for their failure to meet listing requirements of having a requisite number of independent directors and women directors. In separate filings, the companies detailed the fines imposed by the BSE and NSE but were quick to point…
Kashmir, 27/8: Just a day after a teacher in Uttar Pradesh was seen making her students beat a fellow Muslim kid, two teachers in the Kathua district of Jammu were booked for allegedly administering corporal punishment to a student for writing “Jai Shri Ram” on the blackboard. The incident was reported from the government higher…
Florida, 27/8: A man armed with a high-powered rifle and handgun killed three people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, on Saturday, before shooting himself, in what local law enforcement described as a racially motivated crime. “He hated Black people,” Jacksonville Sheriff TK Waters told a press conference. The suspect, whom Waters described…
London, 27/8: Former Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries savaged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in an excoriating resignation letter, as she finally quit her parliamentary seat weeks after first saying she would do so. Dorries, an ally of ex-premier Boris Johnson who who blames Sunak for his ouster last year, lashed out at the prime minister in…
Madrid, 26/8: FIFA’s Disciplinary Committee said on Saturday it has provisionally suspended Luis Rubiales, president of the Spanish soccer federation, amid uproar after he kissed player Jenni Hermoso on the lips after Spain’s victory in the Women’s World Cup. The chairman of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee… has decided today to provisionally suspend Mr Luis Rubiales…
