As senior ministers brace for a cabinet reshuffle, Dayanidhi Maran of the DMK met with the Prime Minister today. Mr Maran, who is Textiles Minister, has reportedly been under considerable pressure to resign on account of his alleged involvement with the telecom scam. After the meeting, Mr Maran calrified that he briefed the PM on [...]
Indian equity benchmarks rallied over 4% in the June series, backed by financial, capital good and FMCG companies’ shares. Healthcare and technology companies’ shares too were quite supportive while auto and oil & gas lost the ground. However, Vivek Mavani, Vice President – Equity at Brics Securities says he doesn’t see substantial upsides on the [...]
The Khmer Rouge’s former head of state told a court trying him for genocide and other crimes Thursday that he is keen to tell all he knows about Cambodia’s 1970s regime — though in the past he has claimed to be “out of touch” with its atrocities. Khieu Samphan told the U.N.-backed tribunal trying him and three [...]
The government has hiked petrol and diesel prices by a marginal Rs. 0.27 a litre and Rs. 0.15 per litre respectively, following an increase in the commission paid to petrol pump dealers. The government approved raising the dealer’s commission paid on petrol from Rs. 1.218 per kilolitre to Rs. 1,499 per kl, resulting in Rs. 0.27 per litre increase in retail price with effect from [...]
He did not get that appointment with Sonia Gandhi, but Anna Hazare’s Thursday was not all washed out. The Gandhian activist – who is trying to cobble political support for the civil society’s draft Lokpal Bill – met Bihar chief Minister Nitish Kumar in Delhi and said he had been promised help. Sharing the stage [...]
The BC Roy Hospital in Kolkata has confirmed that 17 infants have died here in less than two days. A nine-month-old died at the children’s specialty hospital this morning. Angry relatives reportedly trashed the hospital and attacked doctors who they say were negligent. The Superintendent of the B C Roy Hospital, D Pal told PTI [...]
The number of the critically endangered vultures in Cambodia has declined 7.6 percent to 267 in June this year from 289 at this time last year, according to the vulture census released on Thursday. The census was conducted by Cambodia Vulture Conservation Project (CVCP) in cooperation with the ministries of environment and agriculture. Song Chansocheat, [...]
A shallow earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 on the Richter scale jolted Nagano Prefecture and its vicinity in central Japan on Thursday morning, injuring at least 11 people, the Japan Meteorological Agency and local media said. The 8:16 a.m. quake was centered in central Nagano and injured 11 people in Matsumoto and Yamagata in [...]
Two wildlife smugglers have been arrested in Perth in a joint operation between the Australian Customs Services and the Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) of Western Australia (WA), DEC said on Thursday. WA Environment Minister Bill Marmion on Thursday congratulated the agencies for the successful operation carried out on Wednesday night. The arrest of [...]
The Philippine anti-narcotics agents have arrested a suspected member of the African Drug Syndicate (ADS) and a Filipina, who recruited fellow Filipinas to be drug couriers, in an entrapment operation in Metro, a senior government official said on Thursday. Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Director General Undersecretary Jose Gutierrez Jr. said that 4.5 kilos of [...]
