Indian shares extended their slide on Monday, after seeing their biggest fall in seven months in the previous session, as autos, metal, and energy stocks led losses amid concerns around the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. The blue-chip NSE Nifty 50 index was down 1.2% at 16,826.10 by 9:21 am, while the benchmark…
The Assam government on Sunday rolled out the microfinance loan waiver scheme to give relief to 24 lakh women in the state. Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma launched the Assam Micro Finance Incentive and Relief Scheme, 2021, at Collegiate HS School, Tezpur in Sonitpur district. Himanta Biswa Sarma ceremonially…
Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Sunday wrote to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee demanding her government to “revise” the Covid-19 death toll in the state with “immediate effect”. In the letter, Chowdhury alleged that the West Bengal government “has gone…
Atribal ASHA worker from Odisha, Matilda Kullu, has made it to the Forbes India W-Power 2021 list for her noble cause. Matilda Kullu, a 45-year-old woman from Gargadbahal village in Baragaon tehsil in Odisha’s Sundargarh district, has been working as a recognised social health activist since the last 15 years.…
An earthquake measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale shook Tamil Nadu’s Vellore district in the early hours of Monday morning. No immediate loss of life or property has been reported in the incident. According to the National Center for Seismology, the quake, with its epicentre in Vellore district, occurred at 4.17…
Nearly all the terrorists involved in the killings of civilians in Jammu and Kashmir last month have been neutralised and the armed forces are now focussing on intelligence-based “surgical operations” involving smaller teams to deal with terror activities in the Union Territory, sources in the security…
Parts of Gujarat will witness heavy to very heavy rainfall on December 1 and 2, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted. The IMD has issued an orange alert in Gujarat’s Anand, Bharuch, Navsari, Valsad, Amreli and Bhavnagar districts for December 1 and a yellow alert for December 2. The rainfall is…