‘Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a university chair. But all the change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists.’ In the context of the current debate on the importance and modes of dissent, these words of A J P Taylor, a renowned British historian and journalist,…

The government on Saturday increased excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 3 per litre as it looked to mop up gains arising from fall in international oil prices. The special excise duty on petrol was hiked by Rs 2 to Rs 8 per litre in case of petrol and to Rs 4 in…

After early morning carnage of another 10% on benchmark indices, trading came to a standstill. Nonetheless, soon after opening the market recovered by a sharp quantum, which is the biggest ever intra-day recovery. A couple of moves have lifted sentiments: 1. Recovery in US Stock Futures: The sharp gains on the Indian indices after the market…

Friday’s mega recovery doesn’t mean that markets have returned to the bull phase. Downside risk for the Indian markets cannot be ruled out in the near term, given uncertainty across the globe. The Sensex on Friday skyrocketed over 4,715 points from its intra-day low and closed with a gain of 1,325 points, or 4.04 per…

Wall Street stocks rallied Friday to conclude a bruising week on a more upbeat note as US President Donald Trump declared the coronavirus a national emergency. At the closing bell, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 23,173.86, up nearly 2,000 points or 9.3 percent, recovering most of Thursday’s losses. The broad-based S&P 500 jumped…

Bitcoin plummeted to its lowest in almost a year on Friday before rebounding sharply, as coronavirus panic selling hit asset classes across global markets. In highly volatile trading, bitcoin fell over 20% to around $3,850 in overnight trading, its lowest since March last year, before clawing back some of its losses. It was last up…

Reportedly the indian rupee dropped to a record low on friday, weighed down by worries over the coronavirus pandemic that has prompted investors to dump riskier assets and move towards safe havens. The dollar stood tall on friday as investors scrambled for the world’s most liquid currency amid deepening panic while the euro nursed losses…

Reportedly the indian rupee dropped to a record low on friday, weighed down by worries over the coronavirus pandemic that has prompted investors to dump riskier assets and move towards safe havens. The dollar stood tall on friday as investors scrambled for the world’s most liquid currency amid deepening panic while the euro nursed losses…

LUCKNOW: The fire of protests against the NRC to the CAA that is erupting day by day is causing chaos and revenge among the people. The Yogi government of UP has decided to bring an ordinance to compensate the people who have damaged public and private properties during protests, agitations, processions and dharna. The draft of…

Central government has advised to keep multiplexes shut till the end of the month New Delhi: Amid growing concerns with respect to Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, multiplex chain PVR cinemas on Thursday announced that all their cinema halls in Kerala, New Delhi and the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir will remain shut till 31st March. This…

In a drastic step to curb the spread of coronavirus, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday announced Covid19 as an epidemic in some parts of the state and ordered the closure of auditoriums, cinema halls, gardens, swimming pools and gyms in Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad and Nagpur from Friday midnight, till further orders. Uddhav…

An Indian was among 13 new persons identified with coronavirus in Singapore on Friday taking the total number of COVID-19 cases in the island-nation to 200. The 36-year old Indian, listed as case number 189, is a likely imported case as he was in India from February 21 to March 1, reported the Channel News…

The central government approached Rajasthan to gain information about the line of treatment followed to cure a Coronavirys patient in the state. Doctors in Rajasthan had, in consultation with the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), for the first time in India, followed a unique line of treatment, combining Lopinavir/Ritonavir, drugs usually given as a…

New Delhi: Hours after the Special Cell of Delhi Police arrested ‘Salman’ alias ‘Nanhe’ in the murder case Intelligence Bureau (IB) staffer Ankit Sharma during the northeast Delhi violence, the accused has revealed some chilling new details about the crime. Sources in the special cell told ZEE News that the killers knew that Sharma was…

Even as governments around the world struggle to contain the coronavirus pandemic, many officials are themselves falling victim to the pathogen, undermining global efforts to address the crisis. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada put himself in isolation after his wife tested positive, and a number of other senior officials from Britain to Iran to Australia were…