October 2021

Mexico City, Oct 24 (UNI/Sputnik) Colombia's authorities say they have captured the most-wanted drug trafficker in the country, Dairo Antonio Usuga, also known as Otoniel, who is the head of the "Gulf Clan" (Clan del Golfo). "Special…

Pune, Oct 23 ( UNI) Central Railway ran its 700th Kisan Rail from Sangola to Adarsh Nagar Delhi till today. Kisan Rail completing its 700th run on Central Railway proved to be the most successful and biggest game changing initiative…

Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa tweeted on Friday evening that police will carry out an investigation into former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh’s Pakistani journalist friend “Aroosa Alam and her ISI links”. A…

Owning a vehicle in India is not only a matter of pride, but it also brings with it a sense of independence. You use it to commute to work, to run daily errands, to take your family out for movies and to the shopping mall, and even…

While the Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) retained the accommodative stance and kept the main policy rates unchanged in the review earlier this month, Jayanth R Varma, a member of the MPC, has strongly argued for tightening…

One97 Communications, the parent entity of Paytm, has received approval of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to launch the $2.2 billion (around Rs 16,600 crore) initial public offering (IPO), the largest in India’s corporate…

The Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) has turned down Future Retail’s plea to lift the interim stay on its Rs 24,700 crore deal with Reliance Retail, providing a boost to Amazon’s challenge that the deal was in violation of…

Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor M Rajeshwar Rao on Friday cautioned that the failure of any large non-banking finance company (NBFC) or housing finance company (HFC) may translate into a risk to its lenders with the potential to…

The T20 World Cup is here finally, after pandemic-induced postponement that had it tagged on the back end of IPL. If there was any worry about IPL triggering fatigue in viewers, it was stubbed out by the schedule, which threw up the assured…

If cricket is a religion in many parts of the world, then T20 is its missionary spreading the gospel to newer lands. Starting Saturday, the big boys of world cricket will get the main event underway after an opening act that, by and…

BCCI president Sourav Ganguly said that Virat Kohli’s decision to step down from T20 captaincy after the ongoing World Cup was his “own decision” and there was no pressure from the cricket board. Kohli had recently announced that he…

Hardik Pandya didn’t bowl a single delivery even as “mentor” Mahendra Singh Dhoni tried his hand at throwdowns during the Indian team’s optional session ahead of its opening T20 World Cup game against arch-rival Pakistan on Sunday.…

Shimla, Oct 22 (UNI) Indian Meteorological Department forecast more rain or snowfall in next 48 hrs in the state owing to western disturbance in western Himalayan Region with effect from Saturday night to early morning in the state.…

Jalandhar, Oct 22 (UNI) Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, who also holds the portfolio of Home Ministry, has ordered DGP Iqbal Preet Singh Sahota to probe the links of former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh’s…

New Delhi, Oct 22 (UNI) Defence Ministry signed a contract worth Rs. 423 crores with the US Government under Foreign Military Sale for procurement of MK 54 Torpedo and Expendable (Chaff and Flares) for the Indian Navy. The contract was…

New Delhi, Oct 22 (UNI) Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Ltd on Friday reported a consolidated net profit of ₹13,680 crore in the quarter ended 30 September, registering a 43% y-o-y jump over the ₹9,567 crore clocked in the…

New Delhi, Oct 22 (UNI) Lokesh Sharma Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot did not appear before the Delhi Police Crime Branch in an alleged phone tapping case. Delhi Police Crime Branch had issued…

New Delhi, Oct 22 (UNI) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested Branch Manager of Central Bank of India, Silondi Branch of Madhya Pradesh for accepting bribes from the complainant, the agency said on Friday. A case was…

New Delhi, Oct 22 (UNI) Bansri Lal Arendeh, an Afghan-origin Indian national who was abducted at gun point from near his shop in Kabul on September 14 and released after a fortnight by his kidnappers, has arrived in New Delhi. “I am glad…

Madrid, Oct 22 (UNI/Sputnik) Spanish law enforcement officers have arrested two international fugitives accused by the Polish authorities of fraud valued at 220 million euros ($256 million), Spanish National Police reported on Friday.…