Lucknow, Oct 16 (UNI) Australia have brought to life to their stuttering ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup campaign with an impressive five-wicket victory over Sri Lanka at AB Vajpayee Stadium here on Monday. Winless over the first two matches, the five-time World Cup champions showed some major signs of improvement as they successfully chased down…
Mumbai, Oct 16 (UNI) National Stock Exchange (NSE) on Monday launched 13 new commodity derivative contracts, taking to 28 its products in the Commodity Derivatives Segment. Announcing this, an NSE spokesperson said the 13 new derivatives contracts include ‘Option on Futures’ on Gold 1kg Futures, Gold Mini Futures, Silver Mini Futures, Copper Futures and Zinc…
Mumbai, Oct 16 (UNI) The BSE Sensex on Monday dropped 115.81 pts to close at 66,166.93 as selling pressure was seen in Telecommunications, Health Care, Technology and Realty stocks. The Nifty of National Stock Exchange (NSE) slipped 19.30 pts at 19,731.75.. The Sensex fell 44 pts at 66,238 in opening session. During the session, it…
Huzurabad (Telangana), Oct 16 (UNI) Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday urged the public to consider giving the BJP an opportunity to usher in comprehensive change in Telangana. During a public meeting held in Jammikunta in Huzurabad Assembly Constituency, Rajnath Singh expressed his optimism regarding the BJP’s prospects, citing the enthusiastic turnout at the…
Gaza, Oct 16 (UNI) The Israeli military destroyed military command posts in the Gaza Strip in the past few hours, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said on Monday. “Over the last few hours, dozens of military command centers and mortar shell posts were destroyed. In addition, the operational command center of Ali Qadi, one of…
Kolhapur / Ratnagiri, Oct 16 (UNI) A new flyover bridge being built on Mumbai-Goa national highway at Bahadur Sheikh Naka in Chiplun of Ratnagiri district suddenly collapsed on Monday along with the launcher system. The work of raising girders for about 1.81-km-long flyover bridge was going on in the morning and at 1445 hours in…
Jerusalem, Oct 16 (UNI) The three Israeli handball clubs participating in the men’s European Cup withdrew from the competition due to the state of war in the country, the Israel Handball Federation said in a statement on Monday. The teams are the Israeli champion Maccabi Rishon Lezion, Hapoel Ashdod, and H.C. Holon, who were all…
New Delhi, Oct 16 (UNI) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will contest the assembly elections “in full force” in the North-Eastern state of Mizoram as part of its organisational expansion, a top leader announced on Monday. The party will soon announce the number of seats it will contest, the party’s north-east states in-charge Rajesh Sharma…
Prayagraj, Oct 16 (UNI) A divisional bench of the Allahabad High Court on Monday reversed the order of the sessions court handing over capital punishment to accused to infamous Nithari case in Noida Surinder Koli and Moninder Singh Pandhet and directed them to release provided they were not required in any other case. The bench…
Srinagar, Oct 16 (UNI) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday expressed happiness for the Navratri Pujas held for the first time since 1947 in the historic Sharda temple near the Line of Control (LOC) in Jammu Kashmir’s Kupwara district. “It is a matter of profound spiritual significance that for the first time since 1947,…
