Mumbai, Jul 12 (DIN NEWS) The US dollar ended sharply lower against the rupee at 68.57/58 per dollar and the pound sterling also finished lower at Rs 90.44/46 at the close of the Interbank Foreign Exchange (forex) market here today. Following are the Interbank forex and RBI rates : (In Rs per unit) Unit Interbank RBI Reference US Dollar 68.57/56 US Dollar 68.6313 Pound Sterling 90.44/46 EURO 80.1650 Euro 79.88/90 Japanese yen (100) 60.
Read MoreNew Delhi, Jul 13 (DIN NEWS) Union Minister Arun Jaitley today exuded confidence that India will pip Great Britain to become the fifth largest economy in the world next year if economic expansion continues at the projected rate. However, rising international crude oil prices and the global trade war would throw up challenges going forward, he said. “If we keep growing at the rate which is being projected, it is likely that next year we will be the fifth largest economy ahead of Great Britain,” Jaitley said in a Facebook…
Read MoreSingapore, Jul 13 (DIN NEWS) South Korean President Moon Jae-in has urged US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try harder to achieve a breakthrough in their nuclear negotiations. Moon said at a forum in Singapore today that Trump and Kim would “face the stern judgment of the international community” if their promises on denuclearisation weren’t kept. Singapore was the host of a historic summit between Trump and Kim last month when they agreed to work toward the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula, without describing…
Read MoreLahore, Jul 13 (DIN NEWS) Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam are set to be arrested today after their arrival here from London following their conviction in a corruption case described by Pakistan’s embattled former prime minister as a “blind revenge” amid a crackdown on his party activists. Sharif, 68, the supremo of the Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz, and Maryam stopped over in Abu Dhabi on their way to Pakistan from London. Sharif and Maryam are expected to land at Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport at 6.15 PM (local…
Read MoreHyderabad, Jul 13 (DIN NEWS) BJP president Amit Shah arrived here today on a day-long visit to hold consultations with party leaders on the strategy for the 2019 Lok Sabha and the Telengana Assembly elections. During his visit, Shah is also likely to meet some RSS leaders, sources said. The BJP chief was accorded a warm reception by the party’s state unit after he landed at the Begumpet airport. He was scheduled to make a speech but did not do so. Shah will give a road map to the state…
Read MoreNew Delhi, Jul 13 (DIN NEWS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi today cited a media report to hit out at Narendra Modi’s visit to China in April, saying never in India’s history has a prime minister “capitulated to pressure from a foreign power as this one has”. Gandhi, who took to Twitter to attack the prime minister, tagged a media report which claimed that the Army has decided to shelve all new “raisings” for a China-specific Mountain Strike Corps due to financial constraints. “Our PM’s ‘no agenda’ China visit, clearly had…
Read MoreNew Delhi, Jul 13 (DIN NEWS) A special court today ordered framing of an additional charge of abetment of bribery against Congress leader and industrialist Naveen Jindal and others in a case pertaining to irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block. Special judge Bharat Parashar said the charge will formally be framed against the accused on August 16. The court had in April, 2016 ordered framing of charges against Jindal, former MoS for Coal Dasari Narayan Rao (since deceased), former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, former Coal Secretary…
Read MoreNew Delhi, Jul 13 (DIN NEWS) The Supreme Court today took a strong note of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry’s decision to set up a social media hub for monitoring online data, observing that it will be “like creating a surveillance state”. The top court said the government wants to tap citizens’ WhatsApp messages and sought its response within two weeks. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud issued notice to the Centre on a plea by Trinamool Congress (TMC) legislator…
Read Moreबॉलीवुड के ट्रेजेडी किंग कहलाने वाले दिलीप कुमार की तबियत को लेकर आए दिन कुछ न कुछ खबरें आती रहती हैं. इस बार दिलीप कुमार के ऑफिशियल ट्विटर हैंडल से उनकी पत्नी सायरा बानो ने खुद ट्वीट करते हुए फैन्स से उनके बेहतर स्वास्थ्य के लिए दुआएं मांगी हैं. उन्होंने काफी इमोशनल होकर दिलीप कुमार के लिए इमोशनल मैसेज लिखा है, सायरा बानो ने ट्वीट किया, ‘अल्लाह उनपर आप सभी की दुआएं बनाए रखे. कृपया उनके स्वास्थ और खुशी के लिए मेरे कोहिनूर के लिए दुआ करें. अपनी प्रार्थना में…
Read More1984 सिख विरोधी हिंसा के 186 बंद मामलों की जांच के लिए याचिकाकर्ता फिर से सुप्रीम कोर्ट पहुंचे. याचिकाकर्ता ने कोर्ट को बताया कि जनवरी के आदेश के बावजूद नई SIT ने काम शुरू नहीं किया. एक सदस्य की अभी तक नियुक्ति नहीं हुई, लिहाजा जल्द सुनवाई हो. चीफ जस्टिस ने कहा कि उन्हें मामले की जानकारी है वो इस मामले को देखेंगे. 9 जनवरी को 186 बंद मामलों की जांच के लिए सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने एक नई SIT का गठन किया था. सुपरवाइजरी पैनल की रिपोर्ट में कहा गया…
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