Higher inflation data and caution ahead of Karnataka election results kept the key Indian equity markets subdued on Monday afternoon. India's wholesale inflation rate rose to 3.18 per cent in April from 2.47 per cent in the previous month, official data showed here on Monday. According to market observers, heavy selling was wi...
As Karnataka readies on Tuesday to count votes polled on Saturday in the 222 assembly constituencies, the Congress, BJP and JD-S are sitting on an edge over the verdict that is likely to have a bearing on their fortunes in the 2019 general elections. A day after a record 72.13 per cent of 5.06-crore electorate voted on a hot weekend, ...
Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday booked another person for posting abusive comments on the microblogging site, Twitter. On Sunday the state police had booked a hate mail monger for spreading hatred and anger against Kashmiri women on his Twitter handle. The police also said it would request the Twitter India authorities to block such users and would ...
Kolkata, May 14 In the wake of violence surrounding the West Bengal rural polls, a CPI-M activist and his wife were burnt to death in their house allegedly by a group of miscreants backed by the Trinamool Congress in South 24 Parganas district's Namkhana, the Left party said on Monday. Police also confirmed that the couple died in...
After a hectic fight between the lawyers backed by the BJP and the CPI-M, the advocates supported by the saffron party for the first time won the majority seats in the 15-member Tripura Bar Association (TBA), an official said here on Monday. "Of the 382 voters, 343 voted on Sunday to elect a new 15-member Tripura Bar Association. Lawyers supported by...
Two bike-borne militants blew themselves up at an Indonesian police headquarters in Surabaya city on Monday, police said. However they did not divulge the number of fatalities....
Dust storm, hail and lightning have claimed as many as 53 lives in Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Delhi, said Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday. As per the MHA report, 39 people were killed in Uttar Pradesh on the intervening night of May 13-14 due to lightening and thunderstorm while in Andhra Pradesh nine lives were lost. In W...
Sporadic violence and clashes between opposing political groups marred the initial hours of West Bengal panchayat polls on Monday. The polling for electing 38,616 representatives across three tiers of state (rural) bodies started at 7 a.m. and would continue till 5 p.m. According to the State Election Commission (SEC), 12.2 per cent votes wer...
At least seven Maoists were gunned down in separate encounters with security personnel in Odisha's Kandhamal and Balangir districts in last two days, said an official on Monday. "Five Maoists were killed during a combing operation at Sudukumpa forest in Kandhamal's Golanki village. "While two were killed in Dudkamal village of Balangir district," said Add...
Shia rivals of Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi have made big gains in the May 12 parliamentary elections, partial results suggest. With most votes counted, a bloc headed by cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and another led by a militia leader are ahead, the BBC quoted poll officials as saying. The Election Commission said Al-Abadi's governing alliance i...
