Day: January 28, 2019

Two Day International Stock Taking Conference on Tiger Conservation inaugurated in New Delhi

open view news desk The 3rd Stock Taking Conference on Tiger Conservation was inaugurated in New Delhi today. Third in a series of Stock Taking Conferences, this is the second to be held in India after 2012 and is expected to have wide ranging discussions on the status […]

Commerce Secretary meets Chinese Vice Minister in Beijing

open view news desk Commerce Secretary, Dr.AnupWadhawan, was on a two-day official visit to Beijing last week.During the visitfrom 21st to 22nd January 2019, he had bilateral meeting with Mr. Zhang Jiwen, Vice Minister of General Administration of China Customs (GACC), for examining market access and quarantine issues for India’s […]

Voluntary services like NSS, NCC should be made mandatory for children from schooldays: Vice President

open view news desk NSS helps students to develop the feeling of oneness, empathy & compassion; Serving people in distress is true Patriotism; Youth must become agents of social change, economic growth & innovation; Addresses NSS Volunteers who participated in the Republic Day Parade The Vice President of […]

Eliminating middlemen has ensured that Haj pilgrimage has not become expensive even after removal of Haj subsidy: Minority Affairs Minister

For the first time since Independence, 2,340 Muslim women from India will go on Haj 2019 without Mehram: Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Minority Affairs Minister inaugurates Training of Trainers Programme for Haj 2019 Union Minister for Minority Affairs Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has said that eliminating middlemen has […]

Indian-origin British retailers among UK’s top 50 taxpayers: Report

London :  Indian-origin retail brothers — Simon, Bobby and Robin Arora — have been ranked Britain’s 24th highest taxpayers, according to a new top 50 list compiled by ‘The Sunday Times’. The Arora family, behind the B&M chain of discount stores, paid 25.6 million pounds towards their 2017-18 tax […]

Indian-origin British retailers among UK’s top 50 taxpayers: Report

London : Indian-origin retail brothers — Simon, Bobby and Robin Arora — have been ranked Britain’s 24th highest taxpayers, according to a new top 50 list compiled by ‘The Sunday Times’. The Arora family, behind the B&M chain of discount stores, paid 25.6 million pounds towards their 2017-18 tax […]

Rupee rises 19 paise to 70.98 vs USD in opening trade

Mumbai :  The rupee appreciated by 19 paise to 70.98 against the US dollar in opening trade Monday, driven by weakening of the greenback in overseas markets and easing crude prices. The rupee opened strong at 70.99 at the interbank forex market then gained further ground and touched 70.98 […]

Sensex dives 180 points in early trade

Mumbai :  Falling for the second straight session, the equity benchmark BSE Sensex Monday lost over 180 points in morning trade after intense selling pressure witnessed in banking, auto and metal stocks despite firming trends in other Asian bourses. The 30-share index declined by 180.50 points, or 0.50 per […]

New alert as hundreds feared dead in Brazil dam disaster

Brumadinho(Brazil) : An alarm warning of an imminent mining dam rupture went up early Sunday in Brumadinho, the same Brazilian community where a dam collapsed killing 34 with hundreds more feared dead, firefighters and the mining company said. An alarm warning of dangerously high water levels at a dam […]

Auschwitz survivors pay homage as world remembers Holocaust

Warsaw :  The world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday amid a revival of hate-inspired violence and signs that younger generations know less and less about the genocide of Jews, Roma and others during World War II. In Poland, which was under Nazi German occupation during the war, […]

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