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 […]
The European Union said it will need to invest between 350 and 450 billion euro ($393-$505 billion) through 2050 in order to maintain its current level of nuclear power output, officials said. The European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy Miguel Arias Cañete spoke during the 12th plenary meeting of the European Nuclear Energy Forum […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday announced ex gratia of Rs two lakh for the next of kin of each of those killed in a bus accident in Uttarakhand. “My prayers and solidarity with those who lost their loved ones in the unfortunate bus accident in Uttarkashi. May the injured recover soon,” Modi said in […]
The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) on Wednesday opened on a higher note during the morning session of the trade. The Sensex of the BSE after opening at 30,446.77 points, touched a high of 30,489.01 points and a low of 30,396.31 points. On Tuesday the Sensex closed at 30,365.25 points. The Sensex is trading at 30,445.97 […]
At least 24 persons were killed and eight others injured when the bus they were travelling in plunged into a deep gorge in Uttarakhand late on Tuesday, police said. The accident took place near Nalupani in Uttarkashi district when a bus full of pilgrims from Indore, Madhya Pradesh were returning from the Gangotri shrine. Three […]
Pakistan’s Attorney General Ashtar Ausaf Ali will on Tuesday brief the country’s parliament and take the members into confidence in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case. “The Attorney General has been invited to brief the MPs through the Parliamentary Committee for National Security on the efforts the government has so far made,” Dawn online quoted National Assembly […]
The strength of women members of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) in Tripura rose to a record 28 per cent against 12 per cent at the national level, a party leader said here. “Over 27.77 per cent of the 94,259 CPI-M members in Tripura are women. Always the percentage of women members of the […]
BJP chief Amit Shah on Tuesday said Telangana should become the gateway for the party in south India. Addressing a public meeting at Peddadevulapalli village in Nalgonda district on the second day of his three-day visit, he exuded confidence that the BJP will form the government in Telangana in 2019. Shah said Telangana should become […]
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notice to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a fresh Rs 10 crore defamation suit filed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley over his lawyer Ram Jethmalani using the word “crook”. Joint Registrar Pankaj Gupta issued the notice to Kejriwal and posted the matter for July 26. Jaitley, in the […]
The key Indian equity indices on Monday was trading higher in the morning session. The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex), was trading 200.02 points or 0.66 per cent higher soon after opening. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was also trading 61.05 points or 0.65 per cent higher at 9,488.95 points. The […]