New Delhi : Shares of crisis-hit Jet Airways plunged nearly 7 per cent Wednesday after the company grounded six more planes due to non-payment of lease rentals. The stock tumbled 6.59 per cent to Rs 213.95 on BSE. On NSE, shares cracked 6.93 per cent to Rs 213.35. As […]
New Delhi : Gold prices weakened 0.18 per cent to Rs 31,902 per 10 gram in futures market Wednesday as speculators trimmed their positions taking weak cues from global market. At the Multi Commodity Exchange, gold for delivery in April declined by Rs 58, or 0.18 per cent, to […]
Mumbai : Benchmark indices opened on a positive note Wednesday on sustained foreign fund inflow ahead of March derivatives expiry. However, gains were capped as Asian shares fell across the board in line with overnight drop in US stocks. Rising crude oil prices too worried investors. The 30-share Sensex […]
Beira (Mozambique) : The death toll from a cyclone that smashed into Mozambique and Zimbabwe rose to more than 300 as rescuers raced against the clock to help survivors and the UN led the charge to provide aid. “We already have more than 200 dead, and nearly 350,000 people […]
Milan : Premier Giuseppe Conte pledged Tuesday to make Italy the first Group of Seven nation to join China’s ambitious Belt and Road initiative, despite objections from the United States and concerns within his governing coalition. Speaking to parliament, Conte said that Italy’s signing of a memorandum of understanding […]
Manila : Philippine authorities have seized methamphetamine concealed in tea wrappers and biscuit cans in their second-largest drug haul this year in a sign of how the problem has persisted despite the president’s bloody anti-drug crackdown. Three Chinese nationals and a Chinese-Filipino interpreter were arrested late Tuesday in “buy-bust” […]
Caracas : Venezuelan doctors have come under pressure from President Nicolas Maduro’s government for trying to alert a visiting UN mission about the severe lack of hospital medicine and equipment, NGOs say. Venezuelan authorities say that US sanctions freezing USD 30 billion in assets have blocked imports of basic […]
Beijing : India on Wednesday signalled that it will boycott China’s second Belt and Road Forum for a second time, saying no country can participate in an initiative that ignores its core concerns on sovereignty and territorial integrity. India boycotted the first Belt and Road Forum (BRF) in 2017 […]
Hyderabad : A 10-km stretch of Hyderabad Metro Rail between Ameerpet and Hi-Tec City was inaugurated Wednesday, covering 56 km of the 72 km long elevated Hyderabad Metro Rail project, becoming India’s second largest network. With the 56 km length operational, it has now become India’s second largest Metro […]
Mirzapur (UP) : Prime Minister Narendra Modi should stop thinking that people are fools and understand that they see through everything, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said Wednesday. The Congress leader, who is incharge of eastern Uttar Pradesh, is on a three-day boat journey down the Ganga, meeting people […]
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