INDIA

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Sensex, Nifty languish for 2nd day; log weekly losses

7:06 pm July 9, 2021

Mumbai: Equity indices buckled under selling pressure for the second straight session on Friday as risk appetite remained subdued amid lacklustre global cues and lower-than-expected results from IT major TCS. Banking, finance and IT counters accounted for most of the losses, while strong demand for metal stocks cushioned the fall. The 30-share BSE Sensex ended […]

7-year-old girl raped in Punjab village

7:04 pm July 9, 2021

Hoshiarpur (Punjab): A seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her neighbour in a village here, police said on Friday. The incident took place in Nangal Shahidan village on Thursday when the girl’s parents, who are daily wagers, were at work and the victim was alone at home. A case under relevant sections of the Indian […]

UP sees 10 more deaths due to Covid, 112 new cases

12:00 am July 9, 2021

Lucknow: Ten more people succumbed to COVID-19 in Uttar Pradesh, bringing the toll to 22,676, while the infection count reached 17,07,044 on Thursday with the detection of 112 fresh cases, according to an official statement. Of the new fatalities linked to the coronavirus, three were reported from Etah; two each from Amethi and Shahjahanpur; one […]

TNCC holds state-wide protests against fuel price hike

11:58 pm July 8, 2021

Chennai: The Tamil Nadu Congress Committee on Thursday held state-wide protests against the Central government over rise in fuel and cooking gas prices and demanded its immediate rollback. Alongside protests in front of fuel pumps in the state, signature campaign was also held across Tamil Nadu to press the union government to roll back the […]

Bengaluru court junks private plaint for graft probe against Karnataka CM, others

11:55 pm July 8, 2021

Bengaluru: Citing absence of valid sanction, a city court on Thursday dismissed a private complaint for a probe into allegations of corruption against Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa, his son, relatives and a minister, relating to a residential project. Activist T J Abraham had filed the complaint against Yediyurappa, his son and BJP state vice […]