Sensex jumps 500 points, ICICI Bank top gainer

Mumbai (IANS) The benchmark Sensex advanced over 500 points during the early trade on Monday after the worst week of trade since the 2008 financial crisis.

Nifty IT and metal indices gained over two per cent while banking and financial service…

Death toll in ethnic violence in Shillong rises to 3

Shillong (IANS) With the fresh incidents of violence and killing of a 37-year-old youth on Sunday, the toll in ethnic violence in Meghalaya rose to three, officials said.

The authorities re-imposed curfew in capital city Shillong and its…

COVID-19: Thailand reports 1st death due to coronavirus

Bangkok (IANS) The Thai Ministry of Public Health on Sunday announced the country's first COVID-19 death of a retail worker who initially was diagnosed with dengue fever.

A 35-year-old Thai man, who worked as a salesman, passed away on…

BJP will get two-thirds majority in Bengal assembly poll: Shah

Kolkata (IANS) Targeting West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew Abhishek, union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday said a son of the soil and no shahazada (prince) would become the state chief minister after next year's assembly…

DBT, GST globally acknowledged as silent revolutions: FM

New Delhi (IANS) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said GST and direct benefit transfers (DBT) are the two silent revolutions in India's public finance system which are now being globally acknowledged and over Rs 1 lakh crore have…

Jharkhand CM's tweets speed up public grievances' redressal

Ranchi (IANS) Sworn in as Jharkhand Chief Minister, Hemant Soren has been using social media platform Twitter in the past two months to connect to the general public, goad the state's official machinery into action and then report back over the…

Shah reaches Kolkata amid black flag protest by Left, Cong

Kolkata (IANS) Amid protests and black flag demonstrations by Left parties and the Congress, Union Home Minister Amit Shah arrived here on a day-long visit on Sunday. He will address a BJP rally at the Sahid Minar Maidan and also inaugurate the Special…

9 swine flu deaths in UP, 17 PAC jawans test positive

Meerut (IANS) After the coronavirus scare it is now swine flu that is raging on in Uttar Pradesh. The death toll in the state has reached nine, six of which are from Meerut alone, and 17 Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) jawans have tested positive…

Coronavirus set to derail Indian mobile industry by mid-March

New Delhi (IANS) The coronavirus outbreak which has hampered global tech giants' 2020 plans leading to cancellation or postponement of global flagship conferences is set to hit supplies of smartphone components from China to India at least till…

Objective of education should be to make good human beings: President

Gumla: President Ramnath Kovind visited Bishunpur in Gumla district where he witnessed the programs being conducted by Vikas Bharti in the areas of self-employment and development of agriculture-based Industries and skill development programs.