Mumbai: Taking its winning streak to the seventh session, equity benchmark Sensex rallied 460 points to finish at a fresh lifetime peak on Monday, tracking heavy buying in banking, IT and metal stocks despite a weak trend in global markets. After touching a lifetime high of 61,963.07 during the session, the 30-share BSE index ended […]
Washington: Jet fuel derived from a type of mustard plant can replace the petroleum-based aviation fuel to reduce carbon emissions by up to 68 per cent, according to a study led by an Indian-origin scientist in the US. The research, published in the journal GCB Bioenergy, estimated the break-even price and life cycle carbon emissions […]
Menlo Park (California): Facebook said it plans to hire 10,000 workers in the European Union over the next five years to work on a new computing platform that promises to connect people virtually but could raise concerns about privacy and the social platform gaining more control in people’s online lives. The company said in a […]
NEW DELHI: Two aborted missions, three different ministers, multiple rule changes and two decades later, Indian taxpayers will no longer have to pay Rs 20 crore per day to keep the loss-making Air India flying. While opposition Congress expectedly attacked the decision as selling the family silver, DIPAM Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey said what Tata […]
NEW DELHI: The second quarter of the fiscal is likely to be a “healthy quarter” for telecom companies, where Jio’s performance will be driven by subscriber additions, and Bharti and Vodafone Idea will benefit from tariff hikes and some recovery post-severe wave of COVID-19, according to some analysts. The urgency around tariff hikes has come […]
SRINAGAR: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Farooq Khan, emphasized all the stakeholders for encouraging and promoting Mushroom Cultivation, a potential entrepreneurship for youth in Jammu and Kashmir, in a big way. Advisor stated this during his recent visit to SK University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu. He interacted with undergraduate students of Experiential Learning […]
Srinagar: A grand felicitation ceremony of Allen’s Scholarship Test & Reward Program ‘Allen Sharp 2021 was held on October 15, 2021’, the speakers said that Allen has been taking a lot of effort to encourage students’ community in Kashmir. “Kashmir is known for its talent and intelligence. All we have to do is make arrangements […]
Reasi: Minister of State for Chemicals, Fertilizers, New and Renewable Energy Shri Bhagwanth Khuba today visited sub-division Mahore of Reasi district as a part of public outreach initiative launched by the Central government for UT J&K. Addressing the public, the Union MoS said that the Central Government is making strenuous efforts to ensure that benefits […]
RAJOURI: An advanced training programme on the making of handicraft items using chir needles was inaugurated today by Chief Conservator of Forests Jammu, K.Ramesh Kumar, here at Forest Range Sunderbani. Additional Deputy Commissioner Sunderbani, Vinod Banyal; BDO Dr Vikas Sharma; Station House Officer, S.D. Singh; Horticulture Development Officer Arun Sharma; Agriculture Extension officer Dr Davinder […]
New Delhi: The Income Tax Department has detected “large-scale” under-invoicing of imports after it recently raided a trader of laptops and mobile phones, the CBDT said on Saturday. The searches were carried out on October 10 at locations in the National Capital Region, Haryana and West Bengal. “The evidences found and seized during the course […]