“Indian equity markets are expected to open on a flat to mildly negative note, with Gift Nifty trading around 23,477, down by 15 points, indicating subdued opening cues for domestic indices. Global markets remained broadly positive on the back of resilient economic data and easing concerns over major geopolitical developments, though investors are likely to…
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee was beaten, attacked with stones and eggs were hurled at his convoy during a visit to West Bengal’s Sonarpur South to meet families affected by post-poll violence on Saturday.According to police, stones and eggs were thrown at Banerjee’s convoy as he travelled through South 24…
Virat Kohli is set to begin what could be his final ODI tour of England as India take on the hosts in the first ODI at Edgbaston on Tuesday. The match also marks a significant personal milestone for the batting great, who is set to play his 300th ODI for India.Ahead of the series opener,…
Protests against education minister Dhrmendra Pradhan in Ahmedabad (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Ahead of the NEET-UG re-exam, scheduled for June 21, the National Testing Agency (NTA) on Monday acknowledged that some candidates were facing issues downloading their admit cards and assured them that the problem would be resolved very soon.Also Read | NEET-UG retest: Centre…
A political row has erupted after UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said she wants to significantly expand safe and legal routes for refugees to enter Britain once the asylum system is “fixed”.Speaking on Matt Forde’s Political Party podcast, Mahmood said her goal is to go “much bigger” on legal migration pathways, including capped schemes for…
The Delhi High Court is slated to pronounce its verdict on Friday in a batch of petitions filed by Bollywood actor Rajpal Yadav and others challenging their conviction and sentence in multiple cheque bounce cases.As per the causelist published on the website of the Delhi High Court, a single-judge Bench of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma…
Tharoor, Rijiju (PTI file photo) NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday shared a snippet of his conversation with parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju after the Lok Sabha was adjourned, saying the BJP leader agreed that no one could call Tharoor anti-women.Sharing a photo with Rijiju and other MPs on X, Tharoor wrote, “A…
NEW DELHI: Police have registered an FIR against an unidentified person after a mazaar in the Chinour area of Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur district was allegedly vandalised and a sacred cloth, or ‘chadar’, burnt, officials said on Monday.The incident, which came to light under the Sadar Bazar police station limits, triggered tension in the locality, prompting…
Meta’s new Applied AI unit, built to power Mark Zuckerberg’s $14.3 billion bet on chief AI officer Alexandr Wang, is in open revolt. The 6,500 engineers drafted into the months-old team call the work “soul-crushing” and a “gulag,” with one hijacking a company livestream to insult an executive. Amid 8,000 layoffs and a worker-surveillance backlash,…
Vigilance sleuths on Saturday detected five multi-storeyed buildings, 13 high-value plots, 341gm gold, Rs 45 lakh deposits and Rs 2.04 crore in cash from the assistant executive engineer of Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA), Baliguda, in Kandhamal district. BHUBNESWAR: Vigilance sleuths on Saturday detected five multi-storeyed buildings, 13 high-value plots, 341gm gold, Rs 45 lakh…