Politicians across party lines demanded the government take back the Padma Shri bestowed on actor Kangana Ranaut after she triggered a controversy by describing India’s Independence in 1947 as ‘bheek’ or alms. Ranaut also claimed that India attained freedom only after 2014, when the Narendra…
Gujarat’s Vadodara is reportedly set to launch a drive to penalise street hawkers who sell non-vegetarian food ‘openly’. According to local reports, civic officials in Vadodara have been instructed to ensure that food stalls do not ‘visibly’ sell non-vegetarian food; such stalls and carts must ensure that the…
The Bihar Police has arrested more than 800 suspects so far after at least 36 people died from drinking spurious liquor. The police action came just before chief minister Nitish Kumar’s prohibition review meeting on November 16. The police also seized 20,000 litres of liquor in raids across the state. The Nitish…
Sources in the Intelligence agencies revealed on Friday that at least 38 Pakistani terrorists are present in Jammu and Kashmir. “These terrorists are under the radar of security forces,” sources said. The Intelligence agencies prepared a list of Pakistani terrorists involved in terror incidents in the…
If you had invested Rs 10,000 in Bitcoin two months back, your net investments would be just over Rs 14,000 today. An investment in Ethereum would have an almost similar result. But an investment in the much-hyped token Shiba Inu would have yielded a total of about Rs 74,000 within these 60 days. Had you put this money…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched two consumer-centric initiatives of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday via videoconferencing. The two initiatives are the RBI Retail Direct Scheme and the Reserve Bank Integrated Ombudsman Scheme. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das were also…
The prices of gold and silver are trading on the lower side of the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) on Friday, November 12, 2021. Witnessing a downfall of Rs 51 or 0.10 per cent, prices of gold futures maturing on December 3 stand at Rs 49,104 per 10 grams on the MCX. Similarly, the market rates of silver stand at Rs.…
The US will now provide automatic work authorisation permits to the spouses of H-1B visa holders. The immigration-friendly move of the Biden administration is likely to benefit thousands of Indian-American women. An H-4 visa, a non-immigrant visa, is issued by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to…
Former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy alleged that the accused in the Bitcoin scam hacked into Jan Dhan accounts and transferred Rs 2 from each account, amounting to about Rs 6,000 crore. “I have been told that hacking of Jan Dhan accounts happened. Rs 2 per Jan Dhan account was hacked and transferred.…
Two Bangladeshis were killed on Friday when the Border Security Force (BSF) opened fire along the International Border in West Bengal’s Coochbehar to thwart a cattle smuggling bid, a spokesperson said. A jawan of the border force was also injured and was admitted to a nearby hospital, news agency PTI reported.…