Benchmark indices surged sharply on Wednesday, with investors turning bullish as easing oil prices and hopes of renewed US-Iran talks lifted sentiment across sectors.The BSE Sensex jumped 1,263.67 points, or 1.64%, to close at 78,111.24, after rising as much as 1,422.85 points, or 1.85%, during the session. The NSE Nifty climbed 388.65 points, or 1.63%,…
India’s top drug advisory body recommends restricting over-the-counter access to most nicotine replacement therapies, sparking concerns that it will hinder smokers’ efforts to quit. While tobacco products remain widely available, this move could create more hurdles for those seeking quitting aids, potentially impacting public health initiatives. NEW DELHI: Access to quitting aids like nicotine gums…
Tamil Nadu election poll: PIL in HC flags ‘discrepancies’ in Udhayanidhi’s assets CHENNAI: A resident of Chepauk-Triplicane Assembly constituency has moved Madras high court seeking a probe by the income tax department and Union ministry of corporate affairs into the alleged material discrepancies in the assets declared by Tamil Nadu deputy chief minister Udhayanidhi Stalin….
Rajkot: President Droupadi Murmu on Monday said that rapid advances in technologies such as artificial intelligence are transforming healthcare and emphasised that the health of citizens will be crucial to achieving the goal of Viksit Bharat by 2047. She was addressing the first convocation ceremony of AIIMS, Rajkot. During the ceremony, degrees were conferred upon…
Ahmedabad: A State Reserve Police (SRP) jawan on duty at the New State Secretariat in Gandhinagar allegedly committed suicide in the wee hours of Tuesday. He was found hanging from a tree behind Gate No. 3 where he was posted.Inspector A G Solanki from Sector 7 police said that the deceased, Rajendrasinh Gohil, 49, was…
Following violent clashes over wage demands, Noida saw heavy police presence and route marches as investigators flagged a possible organized WhatsApp syndicate. NOIDA: Even as the Uttar Pradesh government’s interim wage hike and heavy police deployment brought relative calm after Monday’s violence, fresh protests were reported in Noida on Tuesday, with security forces remaining on…
Chennai: A lorry driver was rescued after being trapped inside the crushed remains of his vehicle following a collision near Sholavaram on Tuesday morning.The incident unfolded around 5am near Nallur toll plaza, where a tipper lorry was parked by the roadside. Muthupandi, who was driving a container truck and was heading from Vandalur to Minjur,…
Societies clinging to the past while dreaming of the future are often trapped between two mental states. India, just out of the clutches of colonialism, too experienced this duality in social order. In this general backdrop of ambiguity, the nation’s attitude to the female playback voice, too, was complicated. After all, voices are secret catalogues…
Customs officials apprehended a businessman and a clearing agent in Mumbai for attempting to export a controlled chemical. (Representative image) MUMBAI: The Customs arrested a businessman and a clearing agent for allegedly trying to export a chemical without a prior no objection certificate (NOC) from the Narcotics Commissioner of the Central Bureau of Narcotics.The exporter…
The emperor penguin has been declared an endangered species as climate change pushes the icon of Antarctica a step closer to extinction, the global authority on threatened wildlife announced on Thursday.Its change of status from “near threatened” to “endangered”, made by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), underscores the existential threat for ice-dependent…
