Banks in India will be closed for up to 15 days in October. (AI image) Gandhi Jayanti Bank Holiday 2024: India observes three national holidays on which banks remain closed throughout the country: Republic Day (January 26), Independence Day (August 15), and Gandhi Jayanti (October 2). Gandhi Jayanti, celebrated on a Wednesday this year, commemorates…
At a rally in Pennsylvania on Sunday, former President Donald Trump suggested “one rough hour” of law enforcement would deter retail theft. Source link
CNN — The only scheduled debate between the vice presidential nominees on Tuesday night – five weeks before Election Day – may also serve as the final word for the campaigns of Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump before a large audience on national television. It’s an unusual twist of fate for…
NEW DELHI: After Day 2 and 3 being washed out, play finally got underway and that too on time in the second Test between India and Bangladesh at the Green Park Stadium in Kanpur on Monday. The Green Park authorities may have hired langurs to drive away hungry monkeys, but there’s no possible way to…
Sonapur falls in the outskirts of Guwahati within the Kamrup Metro district. The district administration is said to have recently classified several residents of the area as ‘illegal occupiers’ or ‘encroachers’ on tribal lands. The contempt plea by Sonapur residents (petitioners), filed through advocate Adeel Ahmed, said that their houses were allegedly marked for demolition…
A five-year-old boy was allegedly gang-raped by men in Uttar Pradesh’s Hapur district earlier this month, while a few bystanders did nothing but record a video and circulate it on social media. Five-year-old boy gang-raped in Uttar Pradesh’s Hapur; bystanders record video: Report(Representative image) The incident reportedly took place on September 19, but it came…
CNN — Short on supplies, short on power and short on patience, the people who saw the power of a massive storm upend their lives have emerged to a new week, facing the daunting challenge of rebuilding. Some of the roads and bridges they need to do the job aren’t there anymore. Electricity could be…
File photo: Former US President Donald Trump and US Vice President Kamala Harris (Picture credit: Agencies) Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on Sunday took to the campaign trail in two key battleground states, delivering sharply contrasting messages as the November 5 presidential election nears. Speaking in Pennsylvania, Trump called for a “violent” police crackdown on…
NEW DELHI: Dominance of fossil fuels in electricity generation in India will end by the end of the decade said Reserve Bank of India in its latest report. The report also noted that the renewable energy is expected to cross 50 per cent share in electricity generation globally. It added that the energy transition has…
NEW DELHI: The Government on Saturday lifted the ban on international exports of non-basmati white rice and set a minimum export price (MEP) of $490 per tonne. The ban, which had been in place since July 20, 2023, was originally imposed to increase domestic rice availability. “The export policy for non-basmati white rice (semi-milled or…
