Day: January 21, 2021

Sensex breaches 50k-mark, ends lower on profit-booking

7:14 pm January 21, 2021

Mumbai: The BSE Sensex scaled the 50,000-mark for the first time on Thursday on growth optimism and global cues, but succumbed to profit-booking in fag-end trade to finish in the red. Weighed by selling in banking, finance and IT counters, the 30-share BSE index ended 167.36 points or 0.34 per cent lower at 49,624.76. Similarly, […]

Yellow weather warning issued for Himachal Pradesh

7:12 pm January 21, 2021

Shimla: The Meteorological Department has issued a yellow weather warning for thunderstorm in Himachal Pradesh on Saturday. The Shimla MeT centre forecast rains in plains, low hills and rainfall, snowfall in mid hills on Saturday and Sunday and rain, snowfall in high hills between Friday and Sunday. However, it issued a yellow weather warning for […]

Man kills wife, later commits suicide in Ghaziabad

4:12 pm January 21, 2021

Ghaziabad (UP): A man accused of killing his wife allegedly committed suicide at Patla town of Niwari police station area here, police said on Thursday. According to police, Manoj took his wife, Komal, to see a doctor on Wednesday as she was not feeling well. While returning from the clinic, Manoj took Komal to a […]

PM to launch programme to allot ‘patta’ to over 1 lakh indigenous people in Assam

4:09 pm January 21, 2021

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday will launch a special programme of the Assam government to distribute land ‘patta’ or land allotment certificates to over one lakh landless indigenous people. This is for the first time since independence that such a large number of people will be given ‘patta’ in Assam in one go. ”The prime minister will formally […]

US to join global coronavirus vaccine programme

4:04 pm January 21, 2021

Geneva : Dr Anthony Fauci says US President Joe Biden on Thursday will order the United States to support projects to deploy COVID-19 vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics to people in need around the world. Fauci also says the United States will cease reducing US staff counts at the World Health Organisation and will pay its financial obligations to it. Fauci, Biden’s top medical adviser on […]