Mumbai, 28/6: US-based boutique investment firm GQG Partners and other investors have bought close to $1 billion worth of stocks in Adani group’s two firms from the founding family in large block trades. The group’s flagship Adani Enterprises Ltd saw 18 million shares, or 1.6 per cent, trade in a single block while…
Washington DC, 28/6:Former US President Donald Trump on Tuesday sued E Jean Carroll for defamation, alleging she falsely accused him of rape after a jury in a civil trial found that he sexually abused her. Trump’s counterclaim against Carroll in Manhattan federal court comes after a jury’s unusual finding in May that he sexually abused…
New Delhi, 27/6: The Delhi High Court has awarded 20 years imprisonment to two men for gang-raping a Nigerian woman in 2014, saying mere absence of traces of semen during the DNA analysis does not falsify the victim’s claim and penetration was sufficient to prove the offence of rape. The high court modified the jail…
New Delhi, 27/6: The Centre has approved the mass promotion of 1,592 assistant section officers to the post of section officers with immediate effect, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Tuesday. He said that the promotion orders will be issued soon by the respective cadre controlling authorities. “Government has been granting mass…
Chattisgarh, 27/6: A hardcore Naxalite, wanted in more than a dozen incidents of Maoist violence, was killed in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district on Tuesday, police said. Two to three other Naxalites also sustained injuries in the exchange of fire, he added. A firearm, an improvised explosive device (IED) and materials…
Deogarh, 27/6: Today i.e. on 27-06-2023, short while ago, Sri Rajendra Dash, Accounts Officer, Reamal Block, Dist-Deogarh who belongs to the Odisha Taxation and Accounts Service (OTAS), has been apprehended by Odisha Vigilance while demanding and accepting bribe Rs.6,000/- from a Complainant for processing release of pending bill in favour of complt in connection with…
Mumbai, 27/6: India’s current account deficit narrowed sharply in the January to March quarter, mainly on the back of a moderation in the trade gap and an increase in services exports, the Reserve Bank of India said on Wednesday. The current account deficit stood at $1.3 billion or 0.2 per cent of GDP…
Gooa, 27/6: Prime Minister Narendra modi on tuesday virtually flagged off the madgaon (goa)-mumbai vande bharat express train The train, goa’s first vande bharat express, departed from madgaon station in south goa at around 11 the new vande bharat express train launched between the tourist destination goa and country’s financial capital mumbai,…
New Delhi, 27/6: The Congress on Tuesday staged a demonstration against the AAP government in Delhi over a hike in power tariffs in the national capital. The monthly electricity bills of the majority of domestic consumers in Delhi — who use more than 200 and up to 600 units — will be hiked by up…
Beijing, 27/6: China’s economic growth in the second quarter will be higher than the first and was projected to reach the annual economic growth target of around 5 per cent, China’s Premier Li Qiang told delegates at the World Economic Forum in Tianjin on Tuesday. As factory output slows amid weak external and domestic demand,…
