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...

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...

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....

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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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...

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,...

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...

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: 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...