Day: June 18, 2020

Rohit, Yuvraj support #PlayforIndia initiative

9:02 pm June 18, 2020

Bangalore: Country’s top sporting stars like cricketers Rohit Sharma and Bajrang Punia along with Olympians Sakshi Malik and Dipa Karmakar are supporting #PlayforIndia initiative, which aims to help distressed people associated with sports whose livelihoods have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Besides Rohit and Yuvraj, other cricketers involved with the initiative are women’s team […]

Sensex soars 700 points as HDFC twins, RIL sparkle

8:22 pm June 18, 2020

Mumbai: Equity benchmarks notched up robust gains on Thursday as investors piled into banking and finance stocks despite weak global cues and geopolitical volatility. After starting on a tepid note, the 30-share BSE Sensex gained momentum in late-afternoon trade to close at 34,208.05, up 700.13 points, or 2.09 per cent. Similarly, the broader NSE Nifty […]

Gold rises Rs 280; silver gains Rs 260

8:17 pm June 18, 2020

New Delhi: Gold in the national capital gained Rs 280 to Rs 48,305 per 10 gram on Thursday reflecting rally in international prices of the yellow metal, according to HDFC Securities. On Wednesday, it had closed at Rs 48,025 per 10 gram. Silver also rose by Rs 260 to Rs 49,452 per KG from Rs […]

Coronavirus patient ‘hangs self’ at Ambala hospital

8:13 pm June 18, 2020

Ambala: A coronavirus patient allegedly hanged himself from a ceiling fan using bedsheets at a hospital in Haryana’s Ambala district on Thursday, police said. The 52-year-old patient, a resident of Jagadhri in Yamunanagar district, was admitted to MM Medical College, Ambala after he had tested positive for the virus on Monday, they said. He allegedly […]

Martyred soldier's body arrives in Chhattisgarh

India asks China to confine its activities to its side of LAC

8:06 pm June 18, 2020

New Delhi: India on Thursday asked China to confine its activities to its side of the Line of Actual Control and that it must not take any unilateral action to alter it. Referring to the Galwan Valley clash, External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said India was strongly committed to ensuring the country’s sovereignty and […]