Kolkata, Sep 12 (UNI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said she was ready to resign but claimed some forces were “provoking” the protesting junior doctors to defame her ” Ma Mati Manus’ (mother, land and people) government. Banerjee also said they were after the chair (seat of power) by presenting “distorted information”…
Chennai, Sep 12 (UNI) Members of the Indian cricket team led by Rohit Sharma started arriving in batches on Thursday for the first test against Bangladesh to be played at the M A Chidambram stadium here from September 19 as pat of the World Test Championship series. Start batsman Virat Kohli will arrive tomorrow and…
New Delhi, Sep 12 (UNI) In a dramatic turn of events in the last hour of trading the stock market rose to all-time high crossing the historic 83,000-mark for the first time, led by buying in heavy weight shares including Reliance Industries, Infosys, Airtel and others as the BSE Sensex soared over 1,440 points (1.77…
New Delhi, Sep 12 (UNI) India’s retail inflation measured by consumer price index (CPI) inched up marginally to 3.65% in August 2024 on annualised basis from 3.60% in the previous month, as per data released by Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation on Thursday. With this, retail inflation has remained below the Reserve Bank of…
New Delhi, Sep 12 (UNI) The Central Government on Thursday transferred 33 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and 45 Indian Police Service (IPS) officers of the AGMUT cadre. According to the order issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs, one IAS officer and three IPS officers have been transferred out of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). However,…
Geneva/New Delhi, Sep 12 (UNI) External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that India and China have made “some progress” in resolving outstanding issues related to their border talks, and “roughly 75 per cent of the disengagement problems are sorted out”. Speaking at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy think tank, the EAM said that…
Geneva/New Delhi, Sep 12 (UNI) External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, who is visiting Geneva, on Thursday met Volker Turk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. In posts on X, the EAM said: “Good to meet @volker_turk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva today. “Shared India’s perspectives…
New Delhi, Sep 12 (UNI) Terming as “unsavoury” the recent remarks by BJP leader Ram Kumar Gautam and spiritual leader Maha Vishnu on disabled people, a disability rights group on Thursday called for stringent punishments to perpetrators who “deliberately reinforce prejudice and stigmatisation of the disabled.” National Centre for Promotion of Employment of Disabled People…
St Petersburg/New Delhi, Sep 12 (UNI) National Security Advisor Ajit Doval met Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Saint Petersburg, Russia, today during which both sides agreed to work with urgency and redouble their efforts to realize complete disengagement in the remaining areas of the LAC. Doval and Wang, member of the Political Bureau of…
New Delhi, Sep 12 (UNI) Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Navy on Thursday successfully conducted the flight test of the Vertical Launch Short Range Surface-to-Air Missile (VL-SRSAM) from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Chandipur, off the coast of Odisha, at around 1500 hours. The flight test was carried out from…
