India

Mumbai: Benchmark indices continued to rally for the third day running on Friday with the Sensex climbing 619 points in early trade to reclaim the 57,000 level. The 30-share BSE benchmark jumped 619.27 points to 57,477.06. The broader NSE Nifty advanced 189.15 points to 17,118.75. Among the Sensex constituents, Tata Steel, Bajaj Finserv, Asian Paints, […]

Dakshina Kannada: A gang of miscreants allegedly hacked a Muslim youth to death in Karnataka’s Mangaluru district, hours after the state Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s visited the family of slain BJP activist Praveen Kumar Nettaru, police said. The deceased Muslim youth has been identified as Mohammed Fazil, a resident of Mangalpete near Surathkal, located on the […]

Jorhat: The passengers had a harrowing experience after a Kolkata-bound IndiGo flight with 98 passengers on board, skidded off the runway while taxiing for take-off at the Jorhat airport in Assam on Thursday. Indigo flight 6E-757 was scheduled to take-off for Kolkata on Thursday at 2:20 pm, as per the scheduled departure time. While taxiing […]

Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate has conducted raids at several premises linked to the owner of DC Motors Dilip Chhabria. The agency raided six premises linked to the car designer in Mumbai and Pune on Thursday. A money laundering case has been registered on the basis of cases registered against Chhabria by the Crime Intelligence Unit […]

Chennai: In a glittery event, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared open the FIDE 44th Chess Olympiad here on Thursday. Encouraging the players, Modi said that in sports there are no losers, but winners and future winners. “Sports is beautiful because it has inherent power to unite. Sports brings people and societies closer. Sports nurture a […]

New Delhi: Google and Apple on Thursday pulled popular battle royale game Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) from their respective app stores, following a government order. Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) is the Indian version of PUBG Mobile, exclusively for players in the country developed and published by Krafton. The game was released on July 2, 2021 […]

New Delhi: Two Indian Air Force pilots were killed when their twin-seater Mig-21 trainer aircraft met with an accident near Barmer in Rajasthan on Thursday night. The IAF said the accident took place around 9:10 pm. “A twin seater Mig-21 trainer aircraft of the IAF was airborne for a training sortie from Utarlai air base […]

New Delhi: Demanding lifting of suspension of TRS Rajya Sabha members, TRS MPs held a protest in front of Mahatma Gandhi statue on the premises of Parliament on Thursday. They also demanded that special debate on inflation, price rise, flood relief to Telangana and other issues be taken up in both Lok Sabha and Rajya […]

Hyderabad: A woman from the city was allegedly confined and raped for four days by a musician known to her at Guwahati in Assam. The victim, an interior designer in her thirties, had gone to Guwahati alone a year ago, where she is learnt to have met the suspect Sudheer Chaudhary, an artist and musician […]

Hyderabad: Pharma major Dr Reddy’s Laboratories (DRL) reported a profit after tax of Rs 1,188 crore for the June quarter. This is an increase of Rs 108% from Rs 570.8 crore during the corresponding period last year. Its revenues during the June quarter were Rs 5,215 crore, up 6% from Rs 4,919 crore. During the […]

Hyderabad: Both men and women have natural facial hair. However, there’s a lot of stigma attached around women growing facial hair as the society has certain check-boxes for women and expects them to adhere to their perceptions and definitions. Shattering all the norms, a thirty-five-year-old woman, Shyja, from Kerala is breaking gender stereotypes by flaunting […]

New Delhi: Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, in the soup for the remark which he claimed was a “slip of tongue”, on Thursday said he will apologise to President Droupadi Murmu but not to “these pakhandis” (hypocrites). He also accused the BJP of making a “mountain out of a molehill” over the issue. Chowdhury said […]

New Delhi: Rural population is now driving Internet growth in India as urban India appears to have hit a plateau, a new report showed on Thursday. There are 692 million active Internet users in India, and much of the growth continues to be driven by rural India (351 million users with 37 per cent). The urban […]

Chennai: India’s demand for gold will be between 800-850 tonne in 2022, said a top official of World Gold Council-India. He also said 80 per cent of the demand will be for jewellery and the balance in the form of gold coins. The gold demand in India for 2022 will be above 800 tonne. It will […]

Amritsar: Controversy over Lok Sabha MP from Sangrur Simranjit Singh Mann calling freedom fighter Bhagat Singh a “terrorist” refuses to die down with many politicians and activists coming out in support of the national hero. Post Simranjit Singh Mann’s remark, his son Iman Singh Mann, patron of the Youth wing of SAD(A), on Wednesday demanded […]

Amaravati: The BJP has slammed Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy for his statement that the Centre is yet to release funds to the state for the Relief and Rehabilitation package under Polavaram project. BJP’s state general secretary Vishnuvardhan Reddy on Thursday found fault with the chief minister’s remarks made during his […]

Mumbai: The already buzzing Indian Information Technology (IT) sector got a shot in the arm when the industry body National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) predicted that the sector will grow twice as much the Indian gross domestic product (GDP) in the last financial year. It is around $227 billion industry, which added […]

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat Home Department on Thursday transferred two SPs and five police officers in connection with the Botad hooch tragedy that claimed 46 lives. Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Raj Kumar has transferred Botad District Superintendent of Police Karanraj Vaghela and posted him as Commandant of Government properties, Gandhinagar while Ahmedabad District Superintendent of Police […]

New Delhi: After the Bharatiya Janata Party demanded an apology from Sonia Gandhi for insulting President Droupadi Murmu by referring to her as ‘Rashtrapatni’, Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi said, “Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has already apologised.” “He has already apologised,” Sonia Gandhi responded to the media on party’s Adhir Chowdhury’s ‘Rashtrapatni’ remark. However, Adhir Ranjan […]

New Delhi: Three more MPs, two from Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and one Independent, were on Thursday suspended from the Rajya Sabha for the remainder of this week on charges of disrupting the proceedings of the House. Those suspended from the House are AAP MP Sushil Kumar Gupta and Sandeep Kumar Pathak as well as […]

New Delhi: British luxury brand, Burberry, is winning people’s hearts with its latest Autumn-Winter ’22 collection for children by celebrating diversity in fashion. In a first for the brand, Burberry has featured its first Sikh child model. Sahib Singh, is photographed dressed in a Burberry cardigan with a pair of sneakers and a matching black […]

New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday approved the ‘Signing of Guarantees’ for the hosting of FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup 2022 in India. The seventh edition of the women’s under-17 football World Cup will be hosted in India from October 11 to 30. Thanking […]

Hyderabad: A video of a group of Korean students dancing to the song ‘Ghagra’ from Ranbir Kapoor-Deepika Padukone’s film Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani went viral on social media, leaving netizens incredibly impressed. The video, which was initially posted on Instagram, shows Korean students dressed in traditional outfits and kurtas. They were seen grooving to Ranbir […]

New Delhi: Nine in 10 Indians use Twitter while watching TV or streaming content as they turn to the platform for trailers, highlights and latest news about TV shows, the micro-blogging platform revealed on Thursday. About 79 per cent people in India use Twitter more when they’re watching sports content elsewhere, and what they seek on […]