The Sensex and Nifty on Thursday ended lower and clocked their worst quarter since the early days of the pandemic, beset by fears that aggressive central bank policy aimed at curbing inflation could hurt the economy. The NSE Nifty 50 index closed 0.12 per cent or 18.85 points lower at 15,780.25, and the BSE Sensex…
Britain’s biggest rail strike in 30 years kicked off on Tuesday as tens of thousands of staff walked out in a dispute over pay and jobs that could pave the way for widespread industrial action across the economy in coming months. Some of the more than 40,000 rail workers who are due to strike on Tuesday, Thursday…
Four siblings in Tamil Nadu’s Ramanathapuram district were rescued from bonded labour with an NGO’s help. The four brothers were bought by a man who had used them to herd goats. The children were subjugated to bonded labour and had no contact with the outside world for two years. Sundarrajan and Papathi, who had…
We might be accustomed to the pandemic life now, but being locked up inside our homes earlier, brought out a flurry of emotions. And that’s exactly what director Ashwin Saravanan has capitalised on in his upcoming film, Connect, which stars Nayanthara in the lead role. The film will also have Anupam Kher and…
When the Tamil Nadu government allowed the reopening of movie theatres in the state on August 23, there were quite a few doubts about whether audiences would return to the big screen like they used to before the pandemic, given that safety was still a concern and the fact that they now had the option of watching…
New Delhi: COVID-19 has devastated many lives and it is “heart wrenching” that the survival of children who lost either or both parents during the pandemic is at stake, the Supreme Court said, but expressed satisfaction over schemes announced by the Centre and states for them. The Supreme Court said…
New York, United States: New York on Tuesday announced the introduction of a de facto vaccine pass for some public spaces, as China’s Wuhan said it would test all 11 million residents after the coronavirus returned to the place where it first emerged. Meanwhile, half of the European Union’s population…