Day: May 28, 2021

Tata Group acquires majority stake in BigBasket

8:06 pm May 28, 2021

New Delhi: Tata Group has acquired a majority stake in online grocery seller BigBasket for an undisclosed sum of money, pitting it against the likes of billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance and Amazon. The stake was bought by Tata Digital Ltd, a unit of Tata Sons, a joint statement by the two firms said on Friday. […]

Transgender’s plea for passport: HC seeks Centre stand

8:00 pm May 28, 2021

New Delhi: Aggrieved by non-issuance of a passport by the authorities with a change in name and gender, a transgender person moved the Delhi High Court for issuance of the travel document with the requisite changes. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh issued notice to the Ministry of External […]

138 litres of liquor seized from train, accused missing

7:57 pm May 28, 2021

Mangaluru: Officials of the Excise department and the railway police on Friday confiscated 138.75 litres of liquor being illegally transported in a train here on Friday, sources said. The liquor bottles were seized from the Dadar- Tirunelveli express train at the Mangaluru railway station, the Excise Department sources said. The accused, suspected to be the […]

EC defers Kerala Rajya Sabha bypoll over Covid 2nd wave

7:50 pm May 28, 2021

New Delhi: Citing the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Election Commission Friday decided to defer a proposed Rajya Sabha bypoll for a seat from Kerala. The Commission said that Kerala Congress (M) leader Jose K Mani had resigned as a Rajya Sabha member from Kerala on January 11 this year. His term in […]

Gold declines Rs 205 amid muted global trends

7:45 pm May 28, 2021

New Delhi: Gold declined by Rs 205 to Rs 47,910 per 10 gram in the national capital on Friday in line with selling in global precious metals and rupee appreciation, according to HDFC Securities. The precious metal had closed at Rs 48,115 per 10 gram in the previous trade. Silver, however, gained marginally from Rs […]