Day: August 18, 2020

Bandhan Bank shares close almost flat

7:08 pm August 18, 2020

New Delhi: Shares of Bandhan Bank on Tuesday closed flat after gaining over 2 per cent in early trade following announcement that the Reserve Bank has fully withdrawn the restrictions imposed on the lender for high promoter holding, nearly two years after imposing them. The stock, which rose by 2.47 per cent to Rs 294.40 during the day on […]

Sonu Sood set to launch India’s biggest blood bank through ‘Sonu For You’ app

Sonu Sood, Arshad Warsi and others donate artwork for charity exhibition

7:02 pm August 18, 2020

New Delhi: Actors Sonu Sood, Arshad Warsi, Illeana D’Cruz and Chitrangada Singh are among the popular Bollywood names who have lent support to Smile Foundation’s special exhibition ‘Artwork for Heartwork’. The exhibition, a part of the NGO’s on-going #Heartwork initiative, aims to to generate funds for procuring hygiene kits for the numerous unsung heroes like farmers, truck drivers, shopkeepers […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Maneka shares video of dog being run over; man booked in Kapurthala

6:57 pm August 18, 2020

Chandigarh: BJP MP Maneka Gandhi on Tuesday shared a video on social media in which a man can purportedly be seen running his car over a dog, following which he was booked in Kapurthala. In her tweet, Gandhi said, “He is a breeder and seller of dogs for dog fights. This is what he does to dogs when they […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

UK creates brand new health unit to combat COVID-19, infectious diseases

6:49 pm August 18, 2020

London: The UK government on Tuesday confirmed the creation of a brand new “rigorous” science-led health unit to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and other infectious diseases. The National Institute for Health Protection (NIHP), reports of which had emerged over the weekend, will start work immediately with a single command structure that brings together existing units such as Public Health England (PHE), National […]

Donald Trump ‘wrong’ president for US, says former first lady Michelle Obama

6:44 pm August 18, 2020

New York: Michelle Obama has ripped through Donald Trump at the opening of the Democratic National Convention, saying he is the “wrong president for our country” and urged Americans to vote for his challenger Joe Biden “like our lives depend on it.” In an emotional recorded message to the convention, the former US first lady said last four years had been […]