Sensex, Nifty hit all-time high levels as exit polls predict massive win for BJP-led NDA in LS polls
Mumbai: Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty surged nearly 4 per cent in early trade Monday to hit their fresh all-time high levels after exit polls predicted a massive win for the BJP-led NDA in the Lok Sabha polls. The 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 2,777.58 points or 3.75 per cent...
Read moreEl Niño ending; at least 60% chance of La Niña developing during July-Sept: WMO
New Delhi: The 2023/24 El Niño event, which drove record-breaking temperatures and extreme weather around the world, is predicted to transition to La Niña conditions later this year, according to a new update from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Amid a prevailing but weakening El Niño, millions of people in South Asia, including India and Pakistan, endured brutal heat in April and May. While El Niño is associated with weaker monsoon...
Read moreEC asks CAPF’s 400 companies to stay in Bengal till June 19
Kolkata: Fearing post-poll violence, the Election Commission (EC) has decided to retain 400 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) in West Bengal till June 19. Results for the Lok Sabha polls will be announced Tuesday. Initially, it was decided that 400 companies would be retained in the state only up to June 6, just two days after the counting date (June 4). However, insiders from the office of the Chief...
Read moreCop killed by unidentified persons in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma; role of Naxalites suspected
Sukma: A police head constable was hacked to death by unidentified persons at a village in Chhattisgarh's Naxal-hit Sukma district, an official said Monday. Prima facie, the modus operandi of the attack suggested it was executed by a "small action team of Naxalites," he said. The incident took place on the intervening night of Sunday-Monday in Gadiras village when the deceased, identified as head constable Sodi Laxman, had gone to visit...
Read moreUddhav Thackeray will join Modi govt in 15 days after LS poll results, claims MLA Ravi Rana
Amravati: Amravati MLA Ravi Rana has claimed Shiv Sena (UBT) head and former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray will join the Modi government in 15 days after the Lok Sabha election results come out Tuesday. Ravi Rana's wife Navneet Rana, the sitting MP from Amravati, contested the Lok Sabha poll from the seat this time on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's ticket. In 2019, Navneet Rana won the Lok Sabha poll...
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El Niño ending; at least 60% chance of La Niña developing during July-Sept: WMO
New Delhi: The 2023/24 El Niño event, which drove record-breaking temperatures and extreme weather around the world, is predicted to transition to La Niña conditions later this year, according to a new update from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Amid a prevailing but weakening El Niño, millions of people in South Asia, including India and Pakistan, endured...
Bureaucrat’s daughter commits suicide in Mumbai; suspected academic pressures
Mumbai: Lipi V Rastogi, daughter of a senior IAS couple, died by suicide from a building at Nariman Point, early Monday morning, officials said. The deceased is the daughter of IAS officer Vikas C Rastogi, attached with the Higher & Technical Education Department, and Radhika V Rastogi, posted in the Home Department. Around 4am this morning, Lipi...
T20 World Cup: Police snipers deployed in stadium ahead of SL v SA match
New York: Security has been beefed up at Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York for the T20 World Cup 2024. The police have positioned snipers at covert locations around the venue that will host Sri Lanka and South Africa in its first international game Monday. Nassau County Police Department will oversee a massive operation to...
Odisha: OJEE 2024 results announced, details here
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE)-2024 results were declared Monday. Sagarika Dash has topped the list in B.Pharm, next to her is Biltu Mandal in LE-TECH (DIP). Among others in the list, Suryakant Prusty has topped in MBA and Brahmananda Moharana is the topper in MCA/MSC (Comp SC). This year the OJEE was conducted from May 6...
EC asks CAPF’s 400 companies to stay in Bengal till June 19
Kolkata: Fearing post-poll violence, the Election Commission (EC) has decided to retain 400 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) in West Bengal till June 19. Results for the Lok Sabha polls will be announced Tuesday. Initially, it was decided that 400 companies would be retained in the state only up to June 6, just two days...
Repolling underway in two booths in West Bengal
Kolkata: Repolling was underway in two booths -- one each in Barasat and Mathurapur Lok Sabha constituencies -- in West Bengal Monday under tight security cover. The repolling started at 7am and will continue till 6pm. One of the two booths where the repolling was being conducted is booth number 61 under the Deganga Assembly constituency, one...
CRPF jawan arrested for molesting two women in Kolkata
Kolkata: A CRPF jawan was Monday arrested for allegedly molesting two women in Kolkata’s Chitpur area, an officer said. The jawan, who was returning from election duty in Baruipur in the South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, reached the Kolkata railway station Sunday night from where he was scheduled to board a special train, he said....
Heatwave in these Odisha districts likely till June 6
Bhubaneswar: IMD Bhubaneswar issued a Yellow Warning for heatwave conditions over various Odisha districts till 8.30 am of June 6 in its Wednesday midday weather bulletin. From 8.30am of June 4 to 8.30am of June 5: The weather agency informed that heatwave conditions are very likely to prevail at one or two places over Subarnapur, Boudh, Bolangir,...
Odisha registers 74.41% voter turnout in last phase: EC
Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered a voter turnout of 74.41 per cent in the final phase of polling in six Lok Sabha and 42 Assembly segments held June 1, an Election Commission official said Monday. In the 2019 general elections, the state's overall polling percentage was 74.38 per cent. The highest polling of 76.77 per cent was registered in...
Lightning strike claims four lives in Odisha
Berhampur: Four persons were killed in lightning strikes in separate places in Odisha, a police officer said Monday. The deceased were identified as Sanyashi Sahu, Lambodar Panigrahy and Sanjay Gouda of Ganjam district and Dugun Pradhan of Khurda district, the officer said. Sahu and Pradhan, who were selling toys at Pattapur had taken shelter near a tree...
