India
Markets saw a positive start today as the benchmark Sensex rose 80 points, coming on the back of an overnight record close on the Wall Street. Investors kept track of the two-day monetary policy meeting of the US Federal Reserve, which is due to announce its decision today. The 30-share barometer added 79.62 points, or […]
Gurgaon police today released sketches of the three accused in a case of gang rape of a woman and murder of her infant daughter. After failing to recover any concrete evidence and clues of the three accused who gang-raped the 23-year-old woman and killed her baby daughter on May 29, Gurgaon police released the sketches […]
It was a record setting spree for the markets early on today as the NSE Nifty crossed the 9,700-mark for the first time and BSE Sensex shot up by 121 points to hit a fresh all-time high of 31,430.32. Trading sentiments got a boost as investors widened positions ahead of the Reserve Bank’s monetary policy […]
The CBI today carried out searches at the residence of NDTV founder Prannoy Roy here and in Dehradun for allegedly causing loss to a private bank. The agency has registered a case against Roy, his wife Radhika and RRPR Holdings for allegedly causing a loss of Rs 48 crore to ICICI Bank, CBI sources said. […]
India today successfully test-fired its indigenously developed nuclear-capable Prithvi-II missile from a test range in Odisha as part of a user trial by the Army. The trial of the surface-to-surface missile, which has a strike range of 350 km, was carried out from a mobile launcher from launch complex-3 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) […]
Historian Ramachandra Guha, appointed by the Supreme Court as one of the four administrators of BCCI, today informed the court that he had resigned from the post due to personal reasons. A vacation bench of Justices M M Shantanagoudar and Deepak Gupta was informed by Guha’s counsel that he had tendered his resignation on May […]
India and Spain today signed seven agreements, including on cyber security and technical cooperation in civil aviation, during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the European country. The agreements were signed after Prime Minister Modi held wide-ranging talks with Spanish President Mariano Rajoy at the Moncloa Palace in the Spanish capital. The two sides agreements […]
Key equity indices faltered by giving up their record hit in early part of the day as the Sensex was barely above 31,000 and the Nifty hovered around 9,600. Buying in heavyweight stocks as well as key FMCG and consumer durables kept the upside going. Sentiment was muted as most of the major world markets […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today inaugurated the Dhola-Sadia Bridge, the country’s longest river bridge, over the Lohit in the eastern most tip of Assam connecting Arunachal Pradesh. After inaugurating the Rs 2,056 crore strategic bridge at Sadia in Assam’s Tinsukia district, Modi walked a short distance over it. A vehicle carrying the prime minister, union […]
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’ helicopter crash landed at Nilanga in Latur district today after it suffered a snag, but he escaped unhurt. Our helicopter did meet with an accident in Latur but me and my team is absolutely safe and ok. Nothing to worry. — Devendra Fadnavis (@Dev_Fadnavis) May 25, 2017 A senior official […]
