FPIs withdraw Rs 50,203 crore from Indian equity market in June
55% IndiGo domestic flights delayed as crew call sick on AI recruitment day; DGCA to probe
Three held with brown sugar in Balasore district
Tusker wreaks havoc in Balasore villages
Odisha reports 346 fresh COVID-19 cases, biggest spike in over 4 months
FPIs withdraw Rs 50,203 crore from Indian equity market in June
New Delhi: Continuing their massive selling spree for the ninth consecutive month, foreign investors dumped Indian shares worth Rs 50,203 crore in June -- the highest net outflow in over two years -- amid aggressive rate hike by the US...
55% IndiGo domestic flights delayed as crew call sick on AI recruitment day; DGCA to probe
New Delhi: Fifty-five per cent of IndiGo's domestic flights were delayed on Saturday as a significant number of cabin crew members took sick leave, with sources in the industry saying they ostensibly went for an Air India recruitment drive. When...
Three held with brown sugar in Balasore district
Balasore: Three people were arrested with brown sugar in Odisha's Balasore district, police said Sunday. Acting on a tip-off, Rajpur village in Jaleswar block was raided and the arrest was made following the seizure of 260 gram of brown sugar,...
Tusker wreaks havoc in Balasore villages
Balasore: A wild elephant wreaked havoc in Odisha's Balasore district, damaging houses, and vegetables in the field, an official said Sunday. The tusker strayed into the Laxmankhunta area under Rupsa police station from the neighbouring Mayurbhanj district on Thursday night,...
Odisha reports 346 fresh COVID-19 cases, biggest spike in over 4 months
Bhubaneswar: Odisha recorded 346 cases Sunday, the highest spike in over four months, pushing the tally to 12,90,538, the health department said. The test positivity rate shot up to 2.68 per cent from 1.7 per cent the previous day, it...
Jajpur: Newborn girl ‘sold’ due to poverty, rescued
Jajpur: A newborn girl, who was allegedly sold by her parents due to poverty, in Odisha's Jajpur district, has been rescued, police said. The incident came to the fore after a child development project officer of Dasarathpur block filed a...
BJP’s Rahul Narwekar elected new Speaker of Maharashtra Assembly
Mumbai: On expected lines, Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Rahul Narwekar was elected the new Speaker of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly here Sunday. He defeated his sole rival - the Maha Vikas Aghadi-backed Shiv Sena candidate Rajan Salvi - with a comfortable margin. The elections were held by a division of votes...
Read moreTejas aircraft emerges as top choice for Malaysia’s fighter jet programme
New Delhi: India's Tejas light combat aircraft has emerged as the top choice for Malaysia as the Southeast Asian nation looks at replacing its ageing fleet of fighter jets and the two sides are holding negotiations to take forward the procurement process. Malaysia has narrowed down on the Indian aircraft notwithstanding stiff competition from China's JF-17 jet, South Korea's FA-50 and Russia's Mig-35 as well as the Yak-130 plane, Chairman and...
Read more5 killed, 84 wounded in Iran earthquakes
Tehran: At least five were killed and 84 wounded in three earthquakes measuring above magnitude 6 that shook Iran's southern province of Hormozgan, semi-official Fars news agency quoted an emergency official as saying. Among the injured were 29 hospitalised, said Mojtaba Khaledi, a spokesman for the country's emergency services, on Saturday. Khaledi said earlier that ambulances and helicopters have been sent to the quake-hit areas, adding in some places power outages occurred,...
Read moreFuel crisis hits Argentina hard; economy minister resigns as protests spread
Buenos Aires: Economy Minister Martin Guzman submitted his resignation Saturday, acting at the end of a week in which Argentina's currency hit an all-time low against the dollar and truck drivers staged protests over shortages of diesel fuel. Guzman announced on Twitter that he had sent a multi-page resignation letter to President Alberto Fernandez. “With the deep conviction and confidence in my vision of the path that Argentina should follow, I...
Read moreActive COVID-19 cases in India rise to 1,11,711
New Delhi: India logged 16,103 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,35,02,429, while the active cases increased to 1,11,711, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Sunday. The death toll climbed to 5,25,199 with 31 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases comprise 0.26 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.54...
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FPIs withdraw Rs 50,203 crore from Indian equity market in June
New Delhi: Continuing their massive selling spree for the ninth consecutive month, foreign investors dumped Indian shares worth Rs 50,203 crore in June -- the highest net outflow in over two years -- amid aggressive rate hike by the US Federal Reserve, elevated inflation and relatively higher valuation of domestic equities. Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) have now...
55% IndiGo domestic flights delayed as crew call sick on AI recruitment day; DGCA to probe
New Delhi: Fifty-five per cent of IndiGo's domestic flights were delayed on Saturday as a significant number of cabin crew members took sick leave, with sources in the industry saying they ostensibly went for an Air India recruitment drive. When asked about this matter, DGCA chief Arun Kumar told PTI Sunday, "We are looking into this." The...
Three held with brown sugar in Balasore district
Balasore: Three people were arrested with brown sugar in Odisha's Balasore district, police said Sunday. Acting on a tip-off, Rajpur village in Jaleswar block was raided and the arrest was made following the seizure of 260 gram of brown sugar, they said. Those arrested have been identified as Sk Safiruddin, Sk Tairuddin and Sayeda Bibi, they added....
Tusker wreaks havoc in Balasore villages
Balasore: A wild elephant wreaked havoc in Odisha's Balasore district, damaging houses, and vegetables in the field, an official said Sunday. The tusker strayed into the Laxmankhunta area under Rupsa police station from the neighbouring Mayurbhanj district on Thursday night, he said. Over the last two days, it went on a rampage in a few villages of...
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Odisha reports 346 fresh COVID-19 cases, biggest spike in over 4 months
Bhubaneswar: Odisha recorded 346 cases Sunday, the highest spike in over four months, pushing the tally to 12,90,538, the health department said. The test positivity rate shot up to 2.68 per cent from 1.7 per cent the previous day, it said. On February 22, the state had logged 428 cases. The coronavirus death toll, however, remained at...
Tejas aircraft emerges as top choice for Malaysia’s fighter jet programme
New Delhi: India's Tejas light combat aircraft has emerged as the top choice for Malaysia as the Southeast Asian nation looks at replacing its ageing fleet of fighter jets and the two sides are holding negotiations to take forward the procurement process. Malaysia has narrowed down on the Indian aircraft notwithstanding stiff competition from China's JF-17 jet,...
5 killed, 84 wounded in Iran earthquakes
Tehran: At least five were killed and 84 wounded in three earthquakes measuring above magnitude 6 that shook Iran's southern province of Hormozgan, semi-official Fars news agency quoted an emergency official as saying. Among the injured were 29 hospitalised, said Mojtaba Khaledi, a spokesman for the country's emergency services, on Saturday. Khaledi said earlier that ambulances and helicopters...
Fuel crisis hits Argentina hard; economy minister resigns as protests spread
Buenos Aires: Economy Minister Martin Guzman submitted his resignation Saturday, acting at the end of a week in which Argentina's currency hit an all-time low against the dollar and truck drivers staged protests over shortages of diesel fuel. Guzman announced on Twitter that he had sent a multi-page resignation letter to President Alberto Fernandez. “With the deep...
Jajpur: Newborn girl ‘sold’ due to poverty, rescued
Jajpur: A newborn girl, who was allegedly sold by her parents due to poverty, in Odisha's Jajpur district, has been rescued, police said. The incident came to the fore after a child development project officer of Dasarathpur block filed a recent police complaint that Suresh Das and his wife sold the infant to a childless couple for...