Hot morning in Delhi, min at 27.4 deg C
New Delhi,: The Delhiites on Monday woke up to a hot morning, with minimum temperature being recorded at 27.4 degrees Celsius, a notch below the normal. The relative humidity till 0830 was pegged at 74 per cent. According to the MeT Department, there will be generally cloudy sky with moderate rain during the day. The […]
Sensex down by 50.68 pts
Mumbai, : BSE Sensex on Monday fell by 50.68 points at 39,143.81 in the opening trade on brisk selling in , Realty, OIl&Gas, Auto, and metal stocks. The Nifty of National Stock Exchange (NSE) too declined by 19.55 points to trade at 11,704.35. The sensex registered intra day high and low at 39,300.02 and 39,070.27 […]
Tripura BJP starts work for ensuing three-tier panchayat election
Agartala, : The BJP Tripura state committee held a high level preparatory meeting yesterday for ensuing three-tier panchayat poll to 6111 seats of 591 gram panchayats, 419 seats of 35 panchayat samitis and 116 seats for eight Zilla Parishad scheduled in the end of next month. Besides, the party president and Chief Minister Biplab Kumar […]
Two died, four injured as walkway bridge collapses in Kalimpong
Kalimpong, : Two people were killed and four others were wounded,one of them critically, when a walkway hanging bridge collapsed tossing them into the swallow stream, which is covered with big boulders in West Bengal’s Kalimpong district, police investigating the mishap said today. The mishap happened on Sunday evening at Papritang as the victims were […]
Mayawati breaks BSP-SP Mahagathbandhan in UP
Lucknow, : Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati snapped ties with its ally Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh Monday just after over six months of the formation of so called ‘Mahagathbandhan’ blaming the behaviour and attitude of the SP for the ‘break-up’. However, the decision of the BSP ,which was expected after Sunday’s meeting here, […]
AN-32 to fly until replacement found : IAF Chief
Gwalior, : Indian Air Force’s (IAF) transport aircraft AN-32 will continue flying in the mountains as there is no replacement as of now, said Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa on Monday here. Addressing a press conference here, ACM Dhanoa said, “We will continue to fly AN-32 as there is no replacement,” adding that Forces […]
RBI deputy Governor Viral Acharya quits six months before term ends
Mumbai, : Reserve Bank of India(RBI) Deputy Governor Viral Acharya resigned on Monday, six months before the end of his term. He was in-charge of the monetary policy department. Mr Acharya, RBI’s youngest deputy governor post economic liberalisation, had joined on January 23, 2017 after Urjit Patel was elevated to the post of Governor in […]
Muzaffarpur AES deaths:SC issues notice to Bihar govt seeking detailed explanation
New Delhi, : Supreme Court Monday issued notice to the Bihar government seeking its detailed explanation on the death of more than 120 children in Muzaffarpur due to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES). A vacation bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Sanjiv Khanna was hearing the petitions from lawyers, Manohar Pratap and Shiv Kumar […]
PM to meet economists ahead of Budget
New Delhi,: Ahead of the presentation of the Budget for 2019-20, Prime Minister Narendra Modi would on Saturday interact with the economists to review the current economic situation in the country. Sources said that during the interaction, which comes ahead of presentation of the Budget on July 5 by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, issues like […]
Civil Aviation Minister inaugurates Central ATFM Complex
New Delhi, : Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri inaugurated the Air Traffic Flow Management — Central Command Centre on Saturday. The C-ATFM system is primarily meant to address the balancing of capacity against the demand to achieve optimum utilisation of the major resources viz., airport, airspace and aircraft at every Indian airport where there […]