Patna: The second day of the maiden session of the 16th Bihar legislative assembly began on Tuesday with oath-taking by the newly elected legislators, including 98 first timers, officials said. The assembly was adjourned on Monday, the first day of its session post elections, following the death of RLSP's legislator Basant Kumar. Protem Speaker Sadanand Singh started Tuesday's session with the...
New Delhi: Several members of parliament from the Left staged a protest outside the Parliament House here on Tuesday, taking up the issue of rising intolerance in the country. Led by CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury and senior CPI leader D. Raja and others, the parliamentarians held placards with slogans that read 'Down down communalism' and "Rising intolerance in the country'....
United Nations: India has called upon the UN Security Council to act decisively against the widening arc of terrorism that has struck Paris, Beirut and Syria while the links between the Islamic State and extremists in Afghanistan and elsewhere are tightening. "We urge the Security Council to act against this threat to international peace and security with a sense of...
London: Grammy Award-winning singer Sam Smith is putting together his favourite new songs into a notebook so he can "treasure" the ideas forever. The 23-year-old wants to "treasure" the songs he's been writing for the follow-up to "In The Lonely Hour", so he's copying his favourites into a special new notebook, as per reports. Alongside an image of his new pad,...
Mumbai: The Indian central bank on Tuesday kept its short-term lending and borrowing rates unchanged, in line with expectations, balancing its policy action between a comforting, 7.4 percent economic growth for the second quarter of this fiscal and a creeping inflation. In its fifth bi-monthly monetary policy review of the current fiscal conducted by Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan...
Paris: Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed to enhance cooperation on fight against terrorism. Tremendous changes have taken place in global anti-terrorism situation, China stands ready to work with the international community, including Russia, to combat terrorism, Xinhua quoted Xi as saying on Monday during a meeting with Putin on the sidelines of a UN...
Washington:US Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan invited President Barack Obama to deliver his final State of the Union address before Congress on January 12, 2016. "As we look ahead to the new year, we have both an opportunity and an obligation to find common ground to advance the nation's interests at home and abroad," Ryan as saying...
Chicago: Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange rose on a technical trading bounce, despite a stronger US dollar. The most active gold contract for February delivery added $9.1 (0.86 percent) on Monday to settle at $1,065.30 per ounce, as per reported. In November, gold futures lost $76.1 (6.67 percent). According to MarketWatch, this is their...
Beijing: The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi (yuan) weakened by 11 basis points to 6.3973 against the US dollar on Tuesday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trading System. In China's spot foreign exchange market, the yuan is allowed to rise or fall by two percent from the central parity rate each trading day, as per reported. The...
Paris: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched an alliance of some 120-odd nations here on Monday to harness solar energy better and asked the rich nations to shoulder their responsibilities in protecting the environment, with funding and transfer of clean technology to poor and emerging economies without further delay. He also said India would cut carbon emission levels substantially by...
