Day: December 17, 2019

Rupee settles flat at 70.98 against US dollar

8:48 pm December 17, 2019

Mumbai: The rupee pared early morning gains to settle 2 paise down at 70.98 against the US currency on Tuesday amid lack of any major triggers on the domestic front. Forex traders said while sustained foreign fund inflows and heavy buying in domestic equities supported the rupee, rising crude oil prices and gains in the […]

Nine-year-old girl escapes death by a whisker

8:42 pm December 17, 2019

Theni: A nine-year-old girl cheated death as a venomous snake was found curled up in her shoe she had left outside her house near here on Tuesday. Avanthika slipped on the shoes, felt something slimy on her toe and raised an alarm. Soon, she found it to be a snake and her parents called the […]

Protests marked 2019 in many of Delhi's universities

From Oxford to Harvard, universities abroad see protests against police crackdown in Jamia, AMU

8:33 pm December 17, 2019

New Delhi: The ripple effect of protests on campuses across the country reached top educational institutions in the world including Oxford, Harvard and Yale and MIT, where students and scholars staged demonstrations against the police crackdown on students of Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). Over 400 students from different US universities have […]

59 third party nationals being caught at Nepal border in 2019: SSB DG

8:33 pm December 17, 2019

New Delhi: There has been an over 100 per cent jump in the number of people with “ulterior motives” from countries like Pakistan and China trying to sneak into India through the open Nepal border after security was tightened along the Indo-Pak front following abrogation of Article 370 provisions, a top security official said on […]

UK PM to outlaw Brexit extension beyond 2020

8:25 pm December 17, 2019

London: Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to pass a law guaranteeing Britain’s Brexit transition period cannot run beyond the end of 2020, a source in his office said on Tuesday. Johnson won a big majority in last week’s election on a promise to take Britain out of the European Union by the end of January, […]