Selling pressure in IT, banking and tech stocks, coupled with broadly negative global cues, led the key Indian equity indices to trade on a flat-to-negative note during the mid-afternoon session on Monday. ICICI Bank, Cipla, State Bank of India (SBI) and Infosys were among the top laggards on the BSE market breadth. Around 12.45 p.m., ...
The Delhi High Court on Monday sought response from the Centre and West Bengal government on a plea by former Trinamool Congress MP Mukul Roy against the Mamata Banerjee government alleging his phone was being tapped. Justice Vibhu Bakhru issued notice to the Union Telecom Ministry, West Bengal government, telecom se...
At a time when online gaming is gaining a foothold in the country, HP on Monday introduced a new line-up of its fastest growing OMEN gaming notebooks. HP OMEN 15 and OMEN 17 laptops feature the latest "NVIDIA 10 Series GTX" graphics, high-resolution display with optional G-Sync technology and a single-access service panel to upgrade RAM ...
Swaraj India leader Yogendra Yadav on Monday demanded that the central government should waive loans of all farmers across states, addressing a farmers' rally in the national capital. "We have two demands, one that the remunerative prices should be production cost plus 50 per cent, which was recommended by the Swaminathan Commi...
Industrial conglomerate Larsen and Toubro (L&T) has bagged orders worth Rs 8,650 crore from Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) for construction of "packages 1 and 3" of Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link (MTHL). According to the industrial conglomerate, the order was bagged by the heavy civil infrastructure busi...
The ongoing construction activity at the Pragati Maidan fairground has marred the spirit of trade fair this year with lesser stalls and crowds compared to the previous years. However, traders were still hopeful of good sales now that the business days are over and the fair is open for common people. "The crowd is lesser this y...
The Chinese Ambassador to Nepal has said that China has taken the request of Kathmandu for building a cross-border railway line seriously and has begun a feasibility study, the media reported. In an interaction with the media here on Friday, Ambassador Yu Hong also said Beijing is working towards fostering a new type o...
Moving out of airports due to stiff competition from private players, the India Tourism Development Corporation Ltd (ITDC) is making a gradual comeback with duty-free outlets at seaports. Currently operating at 11 seaports across the country, ITDC aims to to cover all the major ports in the country with duty-free outlets by 2020. The seaport duty-...
Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Sitaram Yechury on Saturday said Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's media statement on Rafale has raised more questions than answers, and asked why comparative prices between the earlier scrapped deal for 126 fighter jets and the present one for 36 aircraft had not been shared. ...
A sovereign ratings upgrade of the Indian government's bonds and of some domesti...
