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April 10, 2024 5:35 PM

Confidence in Indian stock market firm, Sensex bull run now eyes 100000

India's stock market benchmark, Sensex, which has touched the 75,000 mark this week, has now set its eyes on 100000 landmark. According to Santosh Meena, Head of Research at Swastika Investmart Ltd, the Sensex now reaching 100000 seems like a realis...

April 10, 2024 5:31 PM

ECI cracks down on anonymous political hoardings, directs disclosure of publishers and printers for traceability and accountability

Sending a strong message, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday directed all States/UTs mandating the clear identification of printer and publisher on printed election-related material including hoardings, ensuring accountability and tr...

April 10, 2024 5:12 PM

EU court takes Russian billionaires Fridman, Aven off sanctions list

The European Union Court of Justice ruled on Wednesday to remove Russian billionaires Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven from a list of individuals facing European Union sanctions after Russia's attack on Ukraine in 2022. "The General Court considers tha...

April 10, 2024 5:16 PM

Wearing traditional ‘veshti’, PM Modi campaigns in Vellore

Senior BJP leader and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday chose to wear a ‘veshti’ while campaigning for NDA candidates in Tamil Nadu’s Vellore. Addressing a public rally in Vellore, PM Modi said, "...Our New Year is starting from 14th A...

April 10, 2024 4:49 PM

Delhi Mayor, Deputy Mayor elections to be held on April 26

Elections for the post of mayor and deputy mayor of Delhi will be held on April 26, stated an official notice issued on Wednesday. "The Ordinary April (2024) Meeting of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi will be held on Friday the 26th April, 2024...

April 10, 2024 3:21 PM

President Murmu inaugurates two-day homoeopathy symposium

President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday inaugurated a two-day homoeopathy symposium on the occasion of World Homoeopathy Day. During the occasion, the President said that homoeopathy has been adopted in many countries as a simple and accessible treatm...

April 10, 2024 2:33 PM

South Koreans vote for new parliament after campaign focused on economy, graft

South Koreans voted to elect a new parliament on Wednesday in a bitterly fought race seen by some analysts as a referendum on President Yoon Suk Yeol, whose popularity has suffered amid a cost-of-living crisis and a spate of political scandals. Near...

April 10, 2024 4:16 PM

“Looking forward to working together”: PM Modi congratulates Simon Harris on becoming Ireland’s youngest PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday congratulated Simon Harris on becoming Ireland's youngest PM, expressing hope for cooperation in strengthening the ties between India and Ireland. In a post on X, PM Modi said, "Congratulations @SimonHarrisT...

April 10, 2024 1:29 PM

Peru stakes claim to world’s oldest human, born in 1900

Peru's Andean mountains may hold the secret to longevity and the world's oldest-ever person if a new claim by state officials of a 124-year-old man born in 1900 are proven to be true. The country's government has claimed that local resident Marcelin...

April 10, 2024 1:03 PM

UK Nobel winning physicist Peter Higgs dies aged 94

Physicist Peter Higgs, whose theory of an undetected particle in the universe changed science and was vindicated by a Nobel prize-winning discovery half a century later, has died aged 94, the University of Edinburgh said on Tuesday (April 9). The di...