You are here

Category: NEWS CATEGORIES

BUSINESS NEWS CATEGORIES 

Sensex falls over 100 pts to snap six-day record run

strong

Benchmark Sensex slipped from life highs to fall over 100 points to 37,381.05 today as markets took a breather after six consecutive record-setting sessions. Weak trend in other Asian markets, muted earnings and fresh foreign capital outflows weighed on investor sentiment here. Overall market mood was cautious as investors were on a wait-and-watch mode ahead of RBI policy outcome, scheduled tomorrow, and profit-booking at record level, brokers said. The 30-share Sensex, after rising to 37,534.95 points in early trade, turned negative and retreated from record high by losing 113.55, or…

Read More
NEWS CATEGORIES WORLD NEWS 

No need to send Sharif abroad for treatment: Minister

strong

Nawaz Sharif’s medical report does not suggest any treatment abroad, Punjab province home minister Shaukat Javed said today, days after the former prime minister was shifted from jail to a premier hospital here following health complications. Talking to reporters, Javed said Sharif is being kept in the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) on doctors’ orders and he will be there till the doctors say otherwise, Geo TV reported. He brushed off the rumours of sending Sharif to London for medical treatment. Sharif, 68, was shifted to the Cardiac Centre…

Read More
NEWS CATEGORIES WORLD NEWS 

Trump ‘looking into’ rules on printed guns

strong

US President Donald Trump today said he was “looking into” whether Americans should be able to print their own guns, dipping his toe into the latest contentious debate over the right to bear arms. “I am looking into 3-D Plastic Guns being sold to the public,” Trump said, appearing to favor curbs, “already spoke to NRA, doesn’t seem to make much sense!” Trump was referring to the National Rifle Association, the powerful gun lobby that has become an integral part of the Republican political machine. The technology presents Trump with…

Read More
NATIONAL NEWS NEWS CATEGORIES 

There will be civil war, blood bath because of NRC: Mamata

strong

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today alleged that the National Registrar of Citizens (NRC) exercise in Assam was done with a “political motive” to divide people and warned that it would lead to bloodbath and a civil war in the country. Attacking the BJP, she said the saffron party is trying to divide the country and asserted this will not be tolerated. “The NRC is being done with a political motive. We will not let this happen. They (BJP) are trying to divide the people. The situation cannot be…

Read More
NATIONAL NEWS NEWS CATEGORIES 

Legal process has to be completed for granting quota: CM

strong

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today said his government was working on the demand for reservations to the Maratha community, but that the legal process could not be curtailed. Speaking at a function here to release a book on Chhatrapati Rajaram, King Shivaji’s descendant, Fadnavis said the decision cannot be taken only on the basis of sentiments. He described as lamentable the incidents of violence and alleged suicides for the quota demand reported during the ongoing agitation by Maratha organisations in the last few days. “If sentiments are aroused, there…

Read More
NEWS CATEGORIES SPORTS 

Be angry and challenge Kohli, Vaughan’s message to England

strong

Birmingham, July 30 (DIN NEWS) Be angry and challenge Virat Kohli, urged former captain Michael Vaughan to an English side hosting an ambitious India, for long seeking to shed the poor travellers’ tag, in a highly-anticipated Test series. Besides, the 43-year-old who opened for his country for almost a decade, wants the seasoned Alastair Cook to show consistency and skipper Joe Root to convert his starts into monumental knocks. Cook has played alongside the player-turned-expert in the beginning of his career. He prefers a five-man bowling attack and last but…

Read More
NEWS CATEGORIES SPORTS 

Karman cracks top-200, sets new target of 150 by year-end

strong

New Delhi, Jul 30 (DIN NEWS) Karman Kaur Thandi today became only the sixth Indian woman tennis player to crack the top-200 rankings in singles, jumping 32 places in the WTA chart. Karman is now ranked exactly 200 in the WTA list. The 20-year-old Delhi girl, backed by Mahesh Bhupathi, has been in good form in the past few weeks, winning her maiden ITF singles title in Hong Kong and making the semi-finals in two others in China. In April, the country’s top singles player Ankita Raina had broken into…

Read More
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS CATEGORIES 

Captain America was a unique challenge: Marvel producer

strong

London, Jul 30 (DIN NEWS) Stephen Broussard, a producer at Marvel Studios, has said that making “Captain America:The First Avenger” was a unique challenge. Broussard said the studio was conscious that the iconic character – who is played by actor Chris Evans – ‘stands for certain idealisms of the American ideal’, but also wanted to ensure the franchise had a universal appeal. ”Captain America’ was a unique challenge. We were very aware of how a film at that time – Bush era, jingoism – would be received and received globally.…

Read More
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS CATEGORIES 

Taapsee Pannu would love to do Mithali Raj biopic

strong

Mumbai, Jul 30 (DIN NEWS) Actor Taapsee Pannu says she would love to do the biopic on Indian women’s cricket team captain Mithali Raj, but believes it is too early to talk about the project. Viacom18 Motion Pictures has acquired the rights for Mithali’s biopic, who is the highest run-scorer in women’s international cricket and the only woman cricketer to surpass the 6,000 run-mark in ODIs. It was reported that the makers were keen to get Taapsee on board for the project. “The script is not in place so it’s…

Read More
LEGAL NEWS NEWS CATEGORIES 

Kathua gangrape: SC disposes suo motu writ petition

strong

New Delhi, Jul 30 (DIN NEWS) The Supreme Court considered today the submission of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association (JKHCBA) that it should dispose of the suo motu cognizance of the Kathua gangrape and murder case in which it has taken strong note of some lawyers obstructing the judicial process. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud took note of the submission by senior advocate Sidharth Luthra, appearing for the JKHCBA, that the trial in the matter has…

Read More
Translate »