Reigning Olympic marathon champion Eluid Kipchoge of Kenya expectedly won the men’s race of Delhi Half Marathon in a fast time, but below the course record while Ethiopia’s Worknesh Degefa clinched the women’s title here on Sunday. Kipchoge clocked 59. 44 minutes, while Yigrem Demelash of…
The finance ministry on Thursday had relaxed the rules for wedding and farm withdrawals, with the ceiling fixed at Rs 2.5 lakh per wedding, per family. “In absence of operational guidelines from the RBI, we are unable to give Rs 2.5 lakh for marriage purposes. We are awaiting direction from the RBI,” said Punjab…
The Income Tax Department has begun to send notices to those who made deposits at banks that exceeded Rs 2.5 lakh. Hundreds of notices seeking the source of the money were issued after banks reported cases of “unusual or suspicious volumes of cash deposits” since the Centre’s decision to demonetise Rs 500 and…
Some areas in northern China are likely to see another day of smog as the country’s national observatory issued a yellow alert for air pollution earlier Saturday. Moderate smog will stay in some parts of Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi and Shaanxi from Saturday morning to Sunday morning,…
At least 63 people were killed early on Sunday morning when 14 coaches of the Patna-Indore Express derailed near Pukhrayan area in the Kanpur Dehat district, officials said. The incident took place at around 3am near Pukhrayan, about 100 kms from Kanpur. “Death toll has risen to 63,” IG Kanpur, Zaki…
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) chief Jayalalithaa has been shifted out of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Apollo Hospitals in Chennai, and is currently in a special personal room where she has been undergoing treatment for the last 59 days. The AIADMK supporters…