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December 5, 2024 10:31 AM
Indian stock markets opened with marginal gains today as selling pressure eased and foreign investors continued buying. The Nifty 50 index began trading at 24,539.15 points, rising by 71.70 points or 0.29 percent. The BSE Sensex opened at 81,182.74 p...
December 5, 2024 8:57 AM
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Devendra Fadnavis will take oath as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra on Thursday in presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde along with NCP's Ajit Pawar will take the oath as Deputy...
December 5, 2024 9:01 AM
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Devendra Fadnavis is set to be sworn in as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra at Azad Maidan, Mumbai, on Thursday. The ceremony will also witness the swearing-in of two Deputy Chief Ministers: Ajit Pawar of the...
December 4, 2024 10:26 PM
Pakistan, created in 1947 after the partition of British India, was a nation seemingly destined for further division. Many analysts considered it a geographical absurdity, a loose amalgamation of two separate territories 1,000 miles apart. Beyond sha...
December 4, 2024 9:08 PM
Bangladesh is set to host Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri amid heightened tensions between the two nations, with Shafiqul Alam, Press Secretary to the Chief Advisor of Bangladesh's interim government, Muhammad Yunus, emphasizing the intent to s...
December 4, 2024 7:26 PM
Nepal's Minister for Industry, Commerce, and Supplies, Damodar Bhandari, met India’s Minister for Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal, in New Delhi on Monday to discuss matters of bilateral trade and investment. During the meeting, Minister Bhanda...
December 4, 2024 7:13 PM
Union Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced on Wednesday that the Ministry has spent Rs 1.03 lakh crore on rural development and social welfare schemes so far in the current financial year, out of the total budget allocation of R...
December 4, 2024 6:13 PM
Under the pilot phase of the ambitious World’s Largest Grain Storage Plan in the cooperative sector, godowns have been successfully constructed at Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) in 11 states across India. These include Maharashtra, Ut...
December 4, 2024 5:44 PM
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has rescheduled the launch of the PSLV-C59/PROBA-3 satellite mission to December 5 at 4:12 PM, following the detection of an anomaly on Wednesday. The launch was originally scheduled for today (Wednesday)...
December 4, 2024 5:26 PM
Indian indices closed higher on Wednesday, with gains in defence stocks and robust growth in the services sector providing support. The Sensex surged by 110.58 points to end at 80,956.33, while the Nifty rose marginally by 2.35 points, settling at 24...
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