District administration conducts inspection at 43 shops in Kanke area , 5 sealed for violations

Ranchi: A team of the district administration on Thursday conducted an inspection at various shops to check as to whether the instructions in wake of Coronavirus guidelines are being followed or not.

A team led by Assitant Director Social Security…

JMM to register FIR against Union Education Minister if an child gets infected with Coronavirus while appearing for JEE and NEET

Ranchi: Opposing the JEE mains and NEET exams the ruling JMM on Thursday said that it would register FIR against the Union Education Minister if any child gets infected with Coronavirus while appearing for these two exams as the Centre was deliberately…

State Finance Minister demands Rs 2,500 crore as remaining GST payment from Union Government

Ranchi: Jharkhand's Finance Minister Rameshwar Oraon participated in the meeting of the GST Council chaired by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman via virtual mode on Thursday.

During the meeting the demanded the Centre to release…

Markets open on positive note

Mumbai (IANS) The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) on Wednesday opened on a positive note.

The Sensex of the BSE opened at 38,930.18 points and touched a high of 38,930.60 points. The Sensex touched a low of 38,846.76 points.

On Tuesday…

Monsoon Session likely from Sept 14; to have 18 sittings

New Delhi (IANS) The upcoming Monsoon Session of Parliament is likely to begin from September 14 in which 18 sittings are expected in each of the two Houses that would conduct their proceedings without any off day.

Though there was no…

GST Council meet on Thursday, to mull Centre's compensation default

New Delhi (IANS) The GST Council will meet here on Thursday to take up the single-point agenda of GST compensation to states affected by delays in the release by the Centre, a government official privy to meeting agenda said.

The meeting was…

Accenture to lay off 25K employees, Indians set to lose jobs

New Delhi (IANS) Global professional services company Accenture which has over 5 lakh employees worldwide is to cut at least 5 per cent of its 'low-performing' workforce and thousands of Indians are set to lose jobs owing to the sluggish business…

Australian Covid-19 vaccine yields positive pre-clinical results

Sydney (IANS) An Australian-developed Covid-19 vaccine has shown promising results in pre-clinical testing, raising hopes for its potential effectiveness and manufacturability.

The University of Queensland (UQ) released detailed results of…

Pakistan fakes speech to Security Council

New York (IANS) Isolated at the UN, Pakistan faked a speech to the Security Council posting it on the website of its permanent mission pretending it was delivered even though its Ambassador did not speak at the session on terrorism.

Pakistan…

Pulwama attack: NIA names JeM chief Azhar, brothers in chargesheet

New Delhi/Jammu (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) in its chargesheet in the 2019 Pulwama terror attack case has named Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar, his brothers Abdul Rauf Asghar and Ammar Alvi, slain JeM terrorist Mohammad Umar…