The Bahujan Samaj Party’s problems were further compounded the Uttar Pradesh Vigilance Department filing a chargesheet against its state unit chief Ram Achal Rajbhar, in a Rs 4 crore disproportionate assets (DA) case, an official said on Monday. The final chargesheet report is with the Yogi Adityanath government, the official added. Once the state government […]
Light rain and cold winds brought relief from the heat in the national capital on Monday morning. The minimum temperature settled at 24 degrees Celsius, four notches below the season’s average. The city received 7.8 mm rain in the last 24 hours, the Met office said. An official of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said […]
Rahul Jarngal, an engineer belonging to Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district, has scaled the Mount Everest. Jarngal belongs to the border village of Gurabeldaran in Hira Nagar and is an engineer with the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC). On May 27, he along with three other members of an ONGC team scaled the […]
Curfew and restrictions continued in Srinagar and other places in the Kashmir Valley on Monday as authorities said “these were necessary to maintain law and order”. “Curfew will continue in seven police station areas of Khanyar, Rainawari, Nowhatta, M.R. Gunj, Safa Kadal, Kralkhud and Maisuma”, Farooq Ahmad Lone, District Magistrate Srinagar said. Syed Abid Rashid, […]
Authorities on Friday ordered a magisterial probe over a rumour that a school bus was believed to have met with an accident in Jammu’s Rajouri district. On Thursday, the Gareeb Nawaz Academy school bus was carrying 45 persons on a picnic from Manjakot in Poonch to Peer Ki Gali on the Mughal Road that connects […]
Key Indian equity market indices opened flat on Friday following global cues. The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) was trading 23.02 points or 0.07 per cent higher during the early session. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was trading 5.10 points or 0.05 per cent lower at 9,504.65 points. The BSE Sensex, […]
Under attack from the opposition for caste clashes in Saharanpur district, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday appealed to the state’s people not to pay heed to statements aimed at inciting them. “Some forces are out to create disturbances in the state as they are unable to digest the welfare steps of the […]
Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday dubbed as a “blatant lie” BJP President Amit Shah’s comment that the Centre was providing additional funds of Rs 20,000 crore to the state every year. Rao said he challenged Shah to prove that even Rs 200 crore of additional funds were provided to the state. He […]
Taking a cue from global markets, the key Indian equity market indices on Thursday opened higher. The Sensitive Index (Sensex) of the BSE, which had closed at 30,301.64 points on Wednesday, opened higher at 30,374.81 points. Minutes into trading, it was quoting at 30,386.61 points, up by 84.97 points, or 0.28 per cent. At the […]
It was a partly cloudy Wednesday morning here in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 26.6 degrees Celsius, season’s average, the weather office said. “The sky will continue to remain partly cloudy in the day and the maximum temperature is likely to hover around 40 degrees Celsius,” an official of the India […]