Thursday

HCL Tech shares jump nearly 6 pc after Sept qtr earnings

7:52 pm October 24, 2019

New Delhi: Shares of HCL Technologies on Thursday jumped nearly 6 per cent after the company posted a 6.9 per cent rise in its consolidated net profit for the September quarter, and raised its revenue growth forecast. The scrip jumped 5.87 per cent to Rs 1,160 on the BSE. On the NSE, it advanced 5.83 […]

Priyanka attacks Modi on lack of empathy for Assam

BJP govt in UP putting pressure on DM in Gangoh: Congress

6:21 pm October 24, 2019

Lucknow: The Congress accused the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday of putting pressure on the administration to tilt the bypoll results in the saffron party’s favour in the Gangoh Assembly seat and called for an impartial inquiry in the matter. Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, currently on a visit to Rae Bareli […]

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

Haryana minister Krishan Kumar Bedi loses from Shahbad

2:28 pm October 24, 2019

Chandigarh: Haryana minister Krishan Kumar Bedi lost to Jannayak Janta Party rival Ram Karan from the Shahbad reserved constituency on Thursday. Bedi lost by a margin of 37,127 votes to the JJP candidate, as per the result declared by the Election Commission. Haryana had gone to polls on October 21. As per the latest trends, […]

Sixteen sentenced to death after Bangladesh teen burnt alive

2:14 pm October 24, 2019

Feni (Bangladesh): A court in Bangladesh sentenced 16 people to death on Thursday over the murder of a 19-year-old female student burnt alive in April that provoked outrage across the country. Nusrat Jahan Rafi was doused in kerosene and set on fire after refusing to withdraw a sexual harassment complaint against the head teacher of […]

BSF recruit allegedly dies by suicide in Hazaribag

BGB action unprovoked; did not fire a single bullet: BSF

2:37 pm October 18, 2019

New Delhi/Kolkata: The BSF on Friday said the Bangladeshi action of killing their trooper and injuring another along the border in West Bengal was unprovoked and that its troops did not fire “a single bullet” when a flag meeting took place between the two sides. A senior official rejected the claim made by the Border […]