Author: Agencies
MUMBAI: Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty staged a comeback on Thursday, mainly due to buying in the last hour of trade, even as US President Donald Trump slapped an additional 25 per cent duty on Indian goods, which weighed on investor sentiment. Rebounding around 926 points from the day’s low, the 30-share BSE Sensex edged higher by 79.27 points or 0.10 per cent to settle at 80,623.26. The index traded in the red for most of the session and hit a low of 79,811.29. However, fag-end buying helped recover losses and touch a high of 80,737.55. The 50-share NSE…
ULGAM: Amidst the ongoing anti-terror operation in Kulgam, which entered its seventh day on Thursday, locals from the Akhal village have called for their relocation from the area, citing severe hardships. The residents claimed they were unable to sleep due to the relentless firing and were now running out of food as well. “We have been facing severe difficulties for the past seven days. Firing and bombs go on during the night. There is a shortage of ration in our homes now,” Mubarak Khanday, a villager living close to the encounter site, said. Emphasising that the women and children in…
BHAVNAGAR: A man has been arrested for allegedly harassing a lion by going dangerously close to the big cat when it was feasting on its prey in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district, officials said on Thursday. In a short video which went viral on social media a few days back, a person, who also seemed to be recording the lion’s activity on his mobile phone, is seen going close to the wild animal while it is eating a cattle carcass. When he reaches too close, the lion starts charging towards him, prompting others watching the act from a distance and recording it…
NEW DELHI: The BJP on Thursday accused Rahul Gandhi of insulting the people of the country by calling the party’s election victory a “fraud” and said the voters will continue to reject the Congress for such “irresponsible and shameless” character and conduct. The ruling party said that Gandhi has made allegations against the Election Commission out of “frustration and anger” because people are not giving their mandate to the Congress. This came after Gandhi claimed before the media here that an analysis of the voter data pertaining to a Lok Sabha constituency in Karnataka showed that elections were rigged by…
GUREZ: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said that Jammu and Kashmir should be granted statehood as soon as possible, as it is the right of the people, who have been waiting for its restoration. During an address at the National Tribal Festival in Gurez, Omar Abdullah said the Supreme Court mentioned about the restoration of statehood during Article 370 hearing last year. He said statehood is the right of Jammu and Kashmir and it should be granted without further delay. The Chief Minister also spoke about the significance of hosting the festival near the Line of Control (LoC). He…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday lauded MS Swaminathan’s contribution towards the agricultural sector of the country and said that the scientist was a jewel of “Maa Bharti”. Speaking at the MS Swaminathan Centenary International Conference, the Prime Minister noted that MS Swaminathan was such a “great” scientist whose contributions are not limited to a single era or a single region. “Some personalities are such that their contributions are not limited to a single era or a single region. Prof. MS Swaminathan was one such great scientist, a true son of Mother India. He made science a medium…
NEW DELHI: Even as the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi was in the msdst of a news conference alleging poll irregularities, the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of responded in stogly worded letter asking him to sign an affidavit detail his allegations made on the addition and deletion of electors. “It is understood that during a Press Conference held today, you had mentioned about the inclusion of ineligible electors and exclusion of eligible electors in the Electoral Rolls cited at Para 3. You are kindly requested to sign and return the enclosed Declaration/Oath under…
NEW DELHI: Reliance Industries has built four high-powered growth engines of retail, digital services, media and entertainment, and new energy to propel the conglomerate’s next phase of expansion, Chairman Mukesh Ambani said. Parallelly, Reliance is reshaping itself into a new-age deep-tech enterprise, he said in a message to shareholders in the firm’s latest annual report. The firm, which traditionally had oil and petrochemicals as the growth drivers, has in the last few years ventured into retail both online and physical stores – telecom and digital services, built a media empire around news and entertainment channels, and laid the foundation for…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday cited an analysis of data from a Lok Sabha constituency in Karnataka from the 2024 general elections to allege that the Election Commission is colluding with the BJP to “steal elections” and called it a “crime” against the Constitution. Addressing a press conference at the AICC headquarters here, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha said the Congress put together a team and collected “concrete evidence of vote chori” in six months. If the EC does not give us machine-readable data for the past 10-15 years and the CCTV footage, they…
NEW DELHI: Occurrence and filling of vacancies, including the backlog ones, is a continuous process, Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh said on Thursday. “Instructions have been issued to all ministries/departments of the central government to constitute an in-house committee for identification of backlog reserved vacancies, to study the root cause of such vacancies, to initiate measures to remove the factors causing such vacancies and to fill them up through special recruitment drive,” he said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha. Each ministry or department is also required to designate a liaison officer of deputy secretary rank or above…