N ew Delhi, March 15 Home Minister Rajnath Singh has assured Japan and Russia of “bilateral cooperation in disaster management” during bilateral meetings at the 3rd UN World Conference on disaster risk reduction, an official here said. The home minister exchanged views in bilateral meetings with ministers of Japan and Russia at the UN World […]
Fearing that he had contracted HIV, a 39-year-old IITian set his wife and kids ablaze in a car before attempting to kill himself at Betul in Madhya Pradesh on March 4. Now it turns out he doesn’t have the virus. Refusing to believe his suicide-pact story, police sent his blood samples for tests. “We got […]
Thiruvananthapuram, March 15 A Rs.474.03 crores rights issue of State Bank of Travancore will open on March 17 and close on March 31, the bank said in a statement here on Sunday. The issue is for 1,18,50,694 equity shares with a face value of Rs.10 each for cash at a price of Rs.400, including a […]
Chandigarh, March 15 Opposing the Land Acquisition bill brought by the BJP-led central government, the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) on Sunday said the only aim of the proposed law was to grab the farmers’ land and help land grabbers. The issue was raised at a meeting of BKU leaders from Punjab and Haryana held here […]
Mumbai, March 15 With over 99 percent of permitted investment levels for overseas investors already exhausted, the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) will on Monday auction investment limits for government debt securities worth Rs.893 crore. The BSE, in a circular, said the auction will take place on its “ebidxchange” platform between 3.30 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. […]
It may be even more difficult for you to identify a genuine 500-rupee note from a counterfeit one as the currency being smuggled into India by inimical agencies is now a closer imitation of the original, Delhi Police have cautioned. Officers of the Delhi Police Special Cell point to the role of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence […]
By Sanu George Thiruvananthapuram, March 14 While the rival fronts in the Kerala assembly have claimed ‘victory’ over what happened on Saturday on the floor of the house, the real looser has been democracy. If that was not enough, the Left opposition called a state- wide shut down on Saturday to protest against its legislators […]
Mumbai, March 14 India’s foreign exchange reserves decreased by $286.3 million to $337.79 billion for the week ended March 6, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data showed. The reserves had increased by $3.88 billion to $338.07 billion for the previous week ended Feb 27. In the week ended Feb 20 the reserves were up by […]
Agartala, March 14 Over 2,700 employees engaged in MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) scheme continued their strike for the sixth day on Saturday affecting its execution in Tripura. The employees have been demanding annual wage hike at par with other government employees, regularisation of their jobs and removal of anomalies in their […]
Kolkata, March 14 They were once an integral part of the Nandigram movement that eventually catapulted the Trinamool Congress into power in West Bengal, but women who were at the forefront of the anti-acquisition stir are now confined to their homes. They are also subjected to all kinds of oppression, according to Women against Sexual […]