Day: May 15, 2020

Sensex ends marginally lower; bank stocks tumble

6:51 pm May 15, 2020

Mumbai: Equity benchmark Sensex ended marginally lower after a choppy session on Friday as investors weighed the fiscal impact of the government’s economic stimulus. According to market experts, participants fear that the Rs 20 lakh crore package may not result in direct and immediate boost to demand, raising doubts over the country’s economic revival in […]

7 booked for firing in air at reformed don's funeral

Reformed underworld don Muthappa Rai passes away

6:48 pm May 15, 2020

Bengaluru: Reformed underworld don N Muthappa Rai died battling cancer at a private hospital here on Friday, hospital sources said. Rai, 68, was suffering from brain cancer for the past one year and was admitted at Manipal Hospital on Old Airport Road, where he died at 1.34 am, they said. Rai is survived by two […]

Tantuja to supply 1.5 crore masks for school children

Rajasthan making khadi masks

6:43 pm May 15, 2020

Jaipur: Washable khadi masks are being made in view of the coronavirus pandemic crisis by khadi institutions in the state, Additional Chief Secretary Subodh Agarwal said on Friday. He said Khadi institutions of the state have prepared and made available more than 1.70 lakh masks. He said more than one lakh of these masks have […]

Migrant on way to station to catch train collapses, dies

6:36 pm May 15, 2020

Mumbai: A 45-year-old migrant worker from Rajasthan, who walked 30km from his residence to catch a Shramik Special train, collapsed and died near the Vasai Road railway station, an official said on Friday. The incident took place on Thursday evening and the deceased was identified as Harish Chander Shankarlal, a resident of Bhayander in adjoining […]

Elderly man killed, his wife injured

6:32 pm May 15, 2020

Phagwara: An elderly man was killed and his wife injured when some unidentified men stormed into their home and attacked them with a rod, a police official said on Friday. Sadar SHO Amarjit Singh identified the deceased as Kashmir Singh, 70, a resident of Guru Nanak Nagar along the Mehtan-Mehli Phagwara bypass road. The assailants […]