Panaji : Ailing Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar will attend the entire three-day session of the state Assembly that is scheduled to begin on January 29, Speaker Pramod Sawant said on Thursday. Talking to PTI, Sawant said on the second day of session, Parrikar will present the Budget in […]
Moradabad : A criminal case was registered against former Bahujan Samaj Party legislator Vijay Yadav at the Civil Lines police station here for his alleged “beheading” remark aimed at a BJP MLA. “An FIR was lodged by BJP leader Raju Kalra against Yadav on the basis of a newspaper […]
Panaji : The Goa government has decided to charge fines between Rs 2,000 and Rs 10,000 from people for drinking and cooking in the open, state Tourism Minister Manohar Ajgaonkar said Thursday. The Tourist Trade Act will be amended suitably during the Goa Assembly session beginning on January 29 […]
Mumbai : Continuing its upward journey for a third straight day, the rupee strengthened by another 10 paise to 70.97 against the US dollar at the interbank forex market Friday on increased selling of the American currency by exporters and banks. Dealers said dollar’s weakness against some currencies overseas […]
Mumbai : The benchmark BSE Sensex jumped over 250 points and the NSE Nifty reclaimed the 10,900 mark Friday on continued buying by institutional and retail investors amid encouraging 3Q earnings by some more companies. Besides, positive leads from other Asian markets also buoyed trading sentiments here. The 30-share […]
Thane : A Thane resident working in the Thailand Consulate has filed a complaint claiming some persons he befriended on the internet cheated him of Rs 2.53 crore on the pretext of transferring USD 18 lakh to him, police said Friday. The man, along with his wife and two […]
Kolkata : Humanity has always taken precedence over ideology for auteur Mrinal Sen, who did not deter to join the movement against Nandigram violence in 2007 despite his Left leanings, veteran filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan has said. Sen was a rebel who believed in fighting for the cause of common […]
Kolkata : Talking everyone onboard on a journey of imagination, Booker Prize winner Yann Martel recreated the story of his magnum opus “Life of Pi” sans the tiger, orang-utan or the hyena on a ferry that set sail on the Hoogly river here. Martel spoke of how he came […]
New Delhi : Eminent Hindi author and essayist Krishna Sobti died Friday in Delhi, family sources said. She was 93. The author breathed her last in a Delhi hospital this morning, where she was admitted for the last two months, Ashok Maheshwari, a friend and managing director of […]
New Delhi : The Supreme Court Friday decided to examine the Centre’s decision to grant 10 percent reservation in jobs and education to poor candidates belonging to general category. A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjiv Khanna issued notice to the central government on various petitions […]
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