Kolkata, June 17: India recorded total tea production of 1233.14 million kgs during the financial year 2015-16, which is the highest ever recorded by the country so far. As compared to 2014-15, the total tea production registered an increase of 35.96 million kgs which is 3% more than last year. Indian tea achieved another milestone during the financial […]
At least 20 fighters of the Shia Houthi group were killed on Tuesday when they launched armed attacks on government-controlled areas and a strategic airbase in Yemen’s southern province of Lahj, a military official said. He said the attacks were unleashed in the early hours of Tuesday by scores of Houthi fighters and their allies, […]
Quick government measures including actions against hoarders and increasing of stocks have led to “increased availability of the commodity” in the market on Tuesday resulting in modest fall in wholesale prices of arhar and a few other pulses, officials said on Tuesday. In the National Capital Region and parts of north India, arhar and other […]
Millions of Indians on Tuesday morning stretched and twisted their bodies and performed breathing exercises to celebrate the second International Yoga Day, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Chandigarh urging people to delink the ancient Indian practice from their religious beliefs. “Yoga is not a religious activity. Many people do not understand yoga completely. It […]
It was a warm Sunday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 30.1 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s average, the weather office said. “The sky will remain partly cloudy. Light rains or thunderstorm are likely to occur in some areas towards evening or night,” said an official of the Indian Meteorological Department […]
Ending months of suspense, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Govind Rajan formally told his colleagues on Saturday that he is not keen on a second term at the helm of the country’s central bank and will return to academia when his tenure ends in September. Soon after, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, while appreciating […]
Opposition National Conference (NC) and Congress MLAs on Saturday disrupted proceedings of the state assembly over “shortage of rations and spiraling prices in the state”. As the speaker of the state assembly, Kavinder Gupta took his seat to start the day’s proceedings, opposition MLAs stood on their seats shouting slogans against what they claimed has […]
Security forces on Friday shot dead two militants holed up in a house in Jammu and Kashmir’s Sopore town following a gun battle, police said. “Both militants have been killed in Chana Mohalla area,” a police officer said here. “The firing has stopped but searches are going on there.” Two AK-47 rifles and some ammunition […]
Fourteen years after 69 people were massacred at a housing society here during the Gujarat riots, a court on Friday sentenced 11 of the 24 convicts to life imprisonment, one man to 10 years and 12 others to seven years in jail. Pronouncing the punishment in a packed courtroom, Special SIT Court Judge P.B. Desai […]
Assam Congress chief Anjan Dutta passes away at the age of 64 here at AIIMS on Thursday morning . He was admitted to the hospital on May 25 and was undergoing treatment under pulmonary medicine expert Randeep Guleria. “He died today (Thursday) morning at 7.15 a.m. and his body has been sent to the mortuary […]