Chennai: Megastar Rajinikanth, who turns 64 on Saturday, has requested his fans to call off all plans made to ring in his birthday, which is usually celebrated like a ritual. This has been done due to the grave situation caused by heavy rains in Tamil Nadu. "As Tamil Nadu is limping back to normalcy after being struck by the worst...
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday asked Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, vice president Rahul Gandhi and others to appear on December 19 in connection with a complaint filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy in the National Herald newspaper case. Metropolitan Magistrate Lovleen also granted them exemption from personal appearance on Tuesday. The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed the plea...
Tokyo: Tokyo shares opened higher on Tuesday as sentiment here was boosted by a stronger-than-expected revised July-September gross domestic product data for Japan, but buying was held by declines in the overnight US market. At 9.15 a.m., the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average inched up 19.84 points, or 0.10 percent, from Monday to 19,717.99, Xinhua reported. The broader Topix index of all...
New Delhi: Veteran Communist Party of India (CPI) leader A.B Bardhan, who suffered a paralytic stroke, was still in "critical condition", a doctor said on Tuesday morning. Bardhan, 93, who lives in the Ajoy Bhavan CPI headquarters here, was admitted to the G.B. Pant Hospital on Monday after he felt uneasy and lost consciousness, Medical Superintendent Dr S.M. Raheja said....
Palwal (Haryana): Nearly 100 people were injured when two trains collided in Haryana's Palwal district on Tuesday morning due to foggy conditions, police officials said. Unconfirmed reports said that two people, including a train driver, were killed in the accident which took place near village Baghola in Palwal district, about 80 km from New Delhi. An EMU (electric multiple unit)...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday wished Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on his birthday. "Birthday greetings to the veteran politician and Punjab Chief Minister Shri Parkash Singh Badal," the Prime Minister tweeted. Badal, born on December 8, 1927, has been the chief minister of Punjab since 2007. He previously served as chief minister from 1970 to...
Jerusalem: Yossi Cohen, the current National Security Adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was named next chief of the Mossad, the Israeli spy agency. Cohen will replace Tamir Pardo who will finish his five-year tenure in January, Netanyahu as saying on Monday. "Yossi has a rich experience and has reached many achievements in various fields of the Mossad's activity," he said....
New York: The US dollar increased against other major currencies on expectations that the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates next week. The closely-watched US nonfarm payrolls came out better than predicted on Monday, bolstering market speculation for a rate-hike in Fed's December meeting, as per reported. Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 211,000 in November, beating market consensus of 190,000, said...
Chennai: Life in flood-hit Chennai was slowly limping back to normalcy, with rains stopping on Tuesday morning in Tamil Nadu capital. Shops opened up and a massive clean up operation have been initiated in the affected districts where the water levels have receded. The weather department has forecast heavy rains in coastal Tamil Nadu, including Chennai, due to low pressure...
Mumbai: Key Indian equity indices opened lower on Tuesday in line with their Asian peers, as the steep fall in crude oil prices the day before dented energy shares globally and pulled down the markets. Against the previous close at 25,530.11 points, the sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) opened at 25488.42 points. Within minutes into trading,...
