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S Korea’s new Covid-19 cases below 10,000 for 3rd day

South Korea's new Covid-19 cases stayed below 10,000 for the third consecutive day on Saturday ahead of the lifting of the mask mandate for public transportation.

March 18, 2023

Sensex tops 57,000 for the first time, Nifty nears 17,000

The top gainers on the Sensex were Bharti Airtel, Bajaj Finance and Asian Paints while auto and banking stocks were under selling pressure

August 31, 2021

DDCA case: Court imposes Rs 10,000 cost on AAP leader Ashutosh

A Delhi court has imposed a cost of Rs 10,000 on AAP leader Ashutosh for “trying to derail the proceedings” in a criminal defamation case filed against him by Arun Jaitley by seeking re-recording of the senior BJP leader’s statement in Hindi. The court said that the AAP leader moved the application even though he...

January 7, 2018

Punjab govt to give Rs. 75,000 aid for SC, inter-caste marriages

The Punjab government will give an assistance of Rs. 75,000 for marriages of couples belonging to the Scheduled Caste (SC) as well as the inter-caste marriages in the state. A  spokesperson of the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Minority Welfare Department, Punjab, on Friday said that under the new scheme the non-governmental organisations (NGOs), Trusts...

November 24, 2017

In Australia, Indian ‘khatiya’ costs Rs. 50,000!

India’s humble ‘khatiya’ may have vanished from the Indian urban landscape, but it has found its moment in the sun on a foreign shore! An Australian man has put the ‘khatiya’ on sale, describing it as an ‘extremely comfortable, traditional Indian daybed’ with a price tag of $990 (Rs. 50,000). Who would have thought that...

October 8, 2017

US slashes refugee intake to 45,000

The US has decided to curtail the number of refugees it would accept next year to 45,000, half of the cap in 2016, as the humanitarian groups decried the move terming it as cruel. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will brief the Congress on this, a US government official told reporters during a conference call...

September 28, 2017

Bangladesh arrests three Rohingya with 800,000 meth pills

Bangladesh police has arrested three Rohingya men and a Bangladeshi who were trying to smuggle 800,000 methamphetamine pills into the country from Myanmar, an official said. The arrests come as Bangladesh struggles to deal with a massive influx of Rohingya Muslims fleeing unrest in neighbouring Myanmar’s Rakhine state. Officers from Bangladesh’s elite Rapid Action Battalion...

September 28, 2017

UN plans food aid for up to 700,000 Rohingya

The UN has drawn up a contingency plan to feed up to 700,000 Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar after some 480,000 fled to Bangladesh over the past month and arrivals continue. A senior official from the UN’s World Food Program (WFP) said they were now prepared to provide massive food and other emergency aid if...

September 27, 2017

Dam fails in Puerto Rico, 70,000 told to evacuate

Some 70,000 people were ordered to evacuate their homes after a rain-swollen dam in Puerto Rico failed in the latest disaster caused by Hurricane Maria. With the death toll from the storm at 33 across the Caribbean, the National Weather Service office in San Juan yesterday issued a flash flood warning for people living along...

September 23, 2017

Banned Rs.1,000 notes worth Rs. 8,900 crore did not return to us: RBI

In its annual report released on Wednesday, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has revealed that 1.4 per cent of total Rs.1,000 notes worth Rs. 8,900 crore did not return to it as of March 2017. The RBI also said 632.6-crore pieces of Rs. 1,000 notes were in circulation in March 2016, of which 8.9...

August 30, 2017