Kathua/Jammu: Two people were killed and four seriously injured when a their vehicle skidded off the road and collided with the safety wall of a highway in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district on Thursday, officials said. The mishap took place at Hatli Morh when driver reportedly lost control of the vehicle and hit the safety […]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday hailed the contribution of doctors in saving lives from coronavirus and asserted that his government gave paramount importance to augmenting healthcare infrastructure to combat the pandemic. While stressing that losing even one life is saddening, Modi said India saved the lives of lakhs of its people and […]
Geneva: The World Health Organisation said Thursday that any Covid-19 vaccines it has authorised for emergency use should be recognised by countries as they open up their borders to inoculated travellers. The move could challenge Western countries to broaden their acceptance of two apparently less effective Chinese vaccines, which the UN health agency has licensed […]
New Delhi: More than 1.24 crore balance and unutilised Covid vaccine doses are still available with the states and UTs and over 94,66,420 doses are in the pipeline and will be received by them within the next three days, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday. Over 32.92 crore vaccine doses have been provided to […]
NEW DELHI: India added 48,786 new cases of coronavirus taking the total tally to 3,04,11,634, while the national recovery rate improved to 96.97 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday. The COVID-19 death toll rose to 3,99,459 with 1,005 fresh fatalities. According to the data published at 7 am, cumulatively […]
Mumbai: Equity benchmarks stayed on the backfoot for the fourth consecutive session on Thursday as IT and finance counters bore the brunt of hectic selling amid weak Asian cues. A continuously declining rupee and grim macroeconomic data also sapped investor confidence, traders said. The 30-share BSE Sensex ended 164.11 points or 0.31 per cent lower […]
Mumbai: The rupee declined by 23 paise to end at 74.55 (provisional) against the US currency on Thursday, marking its third straight day of loss amid a lacklustre trend in domestic equities and strengthening of the greenback overseas. At the interbank foreign exchange market, the rupee opened on a negative note at 74.37 per dollar […]
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said taxpayer base has almost doubled to 1.28 crore in four years of rollout of the historic tax reform and the enhanced GST mop up in the recent months should now be the “new normal”. In a written message to tax officers on the fourth anniversary of […]
Kolkata: The first consignment of coal for a thermal power plant being developed by state-owned NTPC Ltd through a joint venture in Bangladesh is getting ready at the port here and will be shipped to Mongla Port in the neighbouring country in the next 2-3 days, an official said on Thursday. The 1,320-MW Rampal Power […]
New Delhi: Registration of residential properties in the Mumbai BMC region jumped over fourfold in June to 7,857 units despite the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to real estate consultant Knight Frank India. Out of the total registration numbers, 42 per cent were from sales concluded during June 2021. “Mumbai BMC region (i.e. […]