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July 21, 2024 7:41 PM

315 Indian students return from Bangladesh amid violent anti-quota protests

Around 315 Indian students who were stranded in Bangladesh following the anti-quota stir safely returned on Sunday through the Akhaura Integrated Check Posts in Agartala and Srimantapur in Sonamura district of Tripura. Inspector General of BSF Tripura Frontiers, Patel Piyush Purushottam Das, asserte...

July 21, 2024 7:38 PM

Kanwar Yatra to begin from Monday in Uttarakhand

The Kanwar Yatra for the Shravan month is scheduled to begin from Monday in Uttarakhand. Every year, a large number of devotees from neighboring states converge on Haridwar, and many also visit Gaumukh in the Uttarkashi district to collect holy water from the Ganga River. The state government has i...

July 21, 2024 7:20 PM

2,321 students score 700+ marks in NEET UG 2024 examination

A total of over 23 lakh students appeared in the NEET UG 2024 examination, and out of them, 2,321 students scored 700 or more marks. Government sources said that these students were spread across 1,404 centres in the entire country and abroad. These centres were located in 276 cities acr...

July 21, 2024 6:45 PM

Gold prices rise for fourth week amid Fed rate cut expectations

Global gold prices rose for the fourth straight week on expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in September. Gold gained nearly 1 percent this week to end at 2,446.80 ounce per dollar on Friday. Earlier, it hit an all-time high of 2,483.60 on Wednesday. However global Silver p...

July 21, 2024 6:04 PM

Delhi Police issues traffic advisory ahead of Kanwar Yatra

Delhi Police has issued a traffic advisory ahead of Kanwar Yatra beginning tomorrow. A large number of Kanwariyas reach Delhi, and some of them travel to Haryana and Rajasthan through Delhi borders. This year, the expected number of Kanwarias is about 15 to 20 lakhs. During this period, due to the m...

July 21, 2024 4:56 PM

Bangladesh Supreme Court scraps most jobs quota that sparked violent protests

Bangladesh Supreme Court scrapped most of the quota in the government jobs that sparked countrywide clashes between police and university students claiming over 100 lives. With the Top Court's ruling, just 5 per cent of civil service jobs instead of 30 per cent would remain for the relatives of war ...

July 21, 2024 7:39 PM

Nepal PM K.P Sharma Oli secures trust vote with two-thirds majority

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has secured a vote of confidence with a two-thirds majority from the House of Representatives (HoR). A total of 188 out of 263 members of the House of Representatives (HoR) present in the meeting voted for the proposal on the vote of confidence to the government presente...

July 21, 2024 4:06 PM

Japan sees highest number of bankruptcies since 2014  

In Japan, corporate bankruptcies surged 22 percent in the first half of the year due to rising costs, labor shortages, and waning financial support. According to a recent survey by a credit research company, the total number of bankruptcies from January to June came to 4,887, the highest since 2014....