Chandigarh, Dec 18 (IANS) Authorities in Chandigarh Thursday evening started culling of all birds in and around the city’s famous Sukhna lake after a dead goose was confirmed with the H5N1 (avian influenza or bird flu) virus. “On communication received from the central government, culling of all birds in the vicinity of Sukhna lake — […]
Jammu, Dec 18 (IANS) As many as 478 complaints of violation of the model code of conduct have been received by the Election Commission since the beginning of the five-phase Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections, a poll panel official said. Also 92 incidents of violence relating to the poll campaign were reported from different parts […]
Kolkata, Dec 18 (IANS) Nearly three months after Jadavpur University erupted in protests over a police crackdown on agitating students, yet another showdown looms large with many students set to boycott the convocation even though West Bengal Governor and university chancellor K.N. Tripathi has warned against it. The Jadavpur University Teachers’ Association (JUTA) along with […]
Gurgaon, Dec 17 (IANS) People were evacuated from a Delhi Metro station and two markets in posh areas of Gurgaon Wednesday afternoon after police received bomb threat calls, officials said. The threats, however, turned out to be hoaxes. Train services were affected for over two-and-a-half hours – from around 3.30 p.m. till 6 p.m. – […]
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) The Lok Sabha Wednesday passed the Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2014, after Corporate Affairs Minister Arun Jaitley told the house that some of the original provisions were only posing hurdles to doing business in the country. “The object of these amendments is solely to ease the process of doing business in […]
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) Security was beefed up Wednesday in schools across India, especially in the national capital, and in shopping malls and other crowded places, a day after a terror attack in a school in Pakistan’s Peshawar city left at least 148 people, mostly children, dead. The central government issued an advisory late […]
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Wednesday imposed a penalty of Rs.50 lakh on ICICI Bank and Rs.25 lakh on Bank of Baroda for violation of KYC norms, a statement issued by the apex bank said. “The Reserve Bank of India has imposed monetary penalty on the following two banks […]
Manila, Dec 17 (IANS) Reforms brought by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will help India grow 5.5 percent this fiscal and, if extended, should lift growth to 6.3 percent next year, a top official in the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said here Wednesday. The expected growth is backed by sliding oil prices and the reforms ushered […]
Kolkata, Dec 17 (IANS) France is keen to attract Indian firms to invest in the country, after losing considerable market share in global trade over the last 10 years and now facing a wide trade deficit. “In France, we have a large number of SMBs (small and medium businesses) which are developing technologies in large […]
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday “strongly condemned” the terror attack on a school in Pakistan’s Peshawar city in which at least 126 school children were killed. Mukherjee expressed “deep anguish” and “strongly condemned” the incident in which heavily armed terrorists launched a brazen attack on the […]