Rupee closes flat at 82.03 against US dollar as rate hike worries cap gain
Mumbai: The rupee closed flat at 82.03 (provisional) against the US dollar in a restricted trade on Friday amid a rally in the domestic equities and firm crude oil prices. While FII inflows into equities supported the rupee, a firm US dollar in global markets and gains in crude oil prices capped its gains, analysts […]
Pakistan PM To Participate In SCO Virtual Summit Hosted By India In July
Islamabad : Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will participate in a virtual meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit on the invitation of his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on July 4, Pakistan’s foreign ministry announced on Friday. In a statement, it said Sharif’s participation in the summit illustrates the high importance that Pakistan attaches […]
GST an engine for driving consumption, helped households save on monthly bills: Government
NEW DELHI: Goods and Services Tax (GST) has acted as an engine for driving domestic consumption and helped households save on monthly bills since its implementation six years ago, the government said on Friday. Giving a comparison of the tax rates of various goods pre and post-GST rollout, the government said from streamlining processes to […]
PM refers to popular delicacies on DU campus, asks students to ensure their taste remains unchanged
New Delhi : “Don’t change everything completely, leave some things as they are,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday and asked Delhi University students to ensure the taste of delicacies at food stalls in around the university’s North and South Campus remains unchanged. Addressing the valedictory ceremony of Delhi University’s centenary celebrations, Modi spoke about […]
IPS officer named as accused in Rs 10 lakh bribery case in Punjab
Chandigarh: Senior IPS officer Inderbir Singh has been named as an accused in an FIR pertaining to an alleged bribery of Rs 10 lakh to let off a suspected drug supplier in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district last year, an officer said on Friday. The name of Inderbir Singh, a deputy inspector general of police, was […]
Former dy speaker of Punjab Assembly Bir Devinder Singh passes away
Chandigarh: Former Punjab Assembly deputy speaker Bir Devinder Singh died here on Friday following a brief illness. The 73-year-old Singh passed away at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research here. Singh was elected MLA for the first time from Sirhind in 1980 on a Congress ticket. He again became the legislator […]
Seven killed in road accident in UP
Banda: Seven people died and one was injured when a speeding SUV rammed into a stationary truck here, a senior police official said on Friday. The accident took place on Thursday night near the Pahadiya Dai temple on Kamasin Road when the family of a man, who had suffered an electric shock, was taking him […]
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal to burn copies of Centre’s ordinance at party office on July 3
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will burn copies of the Centre’s ordinance at the party office in central Delhi on July 3, the AAP said on Friday. Addressing a press conference, Aam Aadmi Party chief spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj said copies of the ordinance will be burned across the 70 assembly constituencies of the […]
BJP making push for UCC with eye on LS polls: Shivpal
Etawah : Samajwadi Party national general secretary Shivpal Singh Yadav on Friday accused the BJP of indulging in propaganda over the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) with an eye on the Lok Sabha polls. “Whenever there are elections, these people indulge in this kind of propaganda. They don’t have to do anything nor will they be […]
AAP demands Delhi L-G’s apology over his remarks on freebies
New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party’s chief spokesperson Priyanka Kakkar on Friday lashed out at Lieutenant Governor Vinay Kumar Saxena over his remarks on freebies and demanded an apology from him. She also said the LG should “give up the facilities” that he has been getting at the cost of taxpayers’ money. A couple of […]
