Beijing: Chinese stocks opened higher on Monday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 0.14 percent to open at 3,529.81 points. The smaller Shenzhen index opened 0.18 percent higher at 12,351.41 points, as per reported. The ChiNext Index, tracking China's NASDAQ-style board of growth enterprises, gained 0.27 percent to open at 2,669.34 points....
New Delhi: Congress members, led by party vice president Rahul Gandhi, on Tuesday protested outside parliament here, demanding the ouster of Gen V.K. Singh (retd) as union minister for his 'stoning dogs' remark after Dalit killings. "The person who speaks against Dalits has no right to be a minister," Ghulam Nabi Azad told the media. "He must be terminated from...
New Delhi: South Africa continued to stonewall the Indian bowlers to post 94/3 at lunch on the final day of the fourth cricket Test match at the Ferozeshah Kotla here on Monday. AB de Villiers and Faf du Plesis were in the middle at lunch. De Villers was batting on 26 while du Plesis was on 2. South Africa are...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday declined to entertain a public interest petition seeking direction to parliament to enact a uniform civil code to put an end to alleged discrimination being faced by Muslim women. An apex court bench headed by Chief Justice T.S. Thakur said that it is for parliament to take a call on the issue and it...
Srinagar: Seven troopers were injured on Monday when their convoy was fired at by guerrillas in south Kashmir's Anantnag district, police said. A police official told IANS here, "A CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) convoy going from Srinagar to Jammu was fired at by militants at Semthan near Bijbehara town in Anantnag district today (Monday). "Seven CRPF troopers belonging to 53...
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will visit Pakistan on Tuesday, union minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy said here on Monday. "Tomorrow (Tuesday) Sushma Swaraj is leaving for Islamabad and will give a statement after coming back," Rudy told the media here. "The government will brief in detail on talks in both houses (parliament) once Sushma Swaraj returns from Islamabad," he...
Chennai: Life in flood-hit Chennai was slowly limping back to normalcy on Monday, with shops opening up and a massive clean up initiated in areas where the water levels have receded. the living conditions here were still not okay. Resumption of auto-rickshaw services and public transport made people's life easier after being completely crippled for the past five days. A...
Raipur: India prevailed 3-2 (5-5) in a penalty shoot-out against the Netherlands to clinch the bronze medal in the Hockey World League (HWL) Final at the Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel International Stadium here on Sunday. Mirco Pruijser (ninth minute), Nicolas van der Schoot (25th) made it 2-0 for the visitors but Ramandeep Singh (39th) and Rupinderpal Singh (47th) brought India...
Paris: India is here to ensure that rich countries pay back their debt for the overdraft they have drawn on the carbon space, an Indian minister said on Sunday. Minister of State for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar said the developing could not let the ongoing UN conference, attended by over 195 countries, fail to reach its objectives....
Melbourne: Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell believes that the lingering disappointment over the postponed tour of Bangladesh is the reason why he has had a poor start to his domestic season. The tour was postponed for security reasons and a very different side was put on paper for the series against New Zealand thereafter. "(The Bangladesh postponement) probably affected me more...
