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The railways announced a two paise/km hike in fares of mail/express non-AC trains and four paise/km hike in the fares of AC classes. On the New Year's eve, the railways announced fare hike across its network, excluding suburban trains, effective from January 1, 2020, according to an order issued on Tuesday. While suburban fares remain unchanged, ordinary non-AC, non-suburban fares were increased by 1 paise per km of journey. The railways also announced a two paise/km hike in fares of mail/express non-AC trains and four paise/km hike in the fares of AC classes. The fare hike is also applicable to premium trains such as Shatabdi, Rajdhani and Duronto, according to the order. In the Delhi-Kolkata Rajdhani, which covers a distance of 1,447 km, the hike at the rate of 4 paise per km will be around Rs 58. According to the order, there will not be any change in the reservation fee and superfast charge and the hike in fares will not be applicable to tickets already booked. ...

As traffic police fanned out in the suburbs with breathalysers, a senior official said 170 people have been held so far for drunken driving in Mumbai on New Year's eve. The number of people gathered at Juhu beach for New Year festivities, as on 11pm on Tuesday, was less than last year though celebrations were gathering momentum as the midnight approached, said police officials manning the area. As traffic police fanned out in the suburbs with breathalysers, a senior official said 170 people have been held so far for drunken driving. A senior official said that so far no untoward incident had been reported from Juhu or Versova beach, another area in the western suburbs popular with revelers ringing in the New Year. "So far, Juhu beach has less people when compared to last year. We are also keeping a watch on Versova. No untoward incident has been reported from anywhere," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone IX) Paramjeet Dahiya said. Sandit Bhajibhakre, Deputy ...

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday extended new year greetings, hoping aspirations of everyone are fulfilled in 2020. Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday extended new year greetings, hoping aspirations of everyone are fulfilled in 2020. The new year is a time for new beginnings, the Vice President said. "I convey my warm greetings and best wishes to all our citizens on the advent of the New Year 2020," Naidu said. Prime Minister Modi hoped that 2020 is filled with joy and prosperity. "May everyone be healthy and may everyone's aspirations be fulfilled," he wrote on Twitter.

A 28-year-old labourer was electrocuted when he fell and came in contact with a high tension wire while working at Vasai railway station in Maharashtra's Palghar district, police said on Wednesday. A 28-year-old labourer was electrocuted when he fell and came in contact with a high tension wire while working at Vasai railway station in Maharashtra's Palghar district, police said on Wednesday. The mishap took place on Tuesday when the victim, identified as Mathura Gupta, was standing on a ladder and doing some welding work on a foot over-bridge at the station. The ladder suddenly slipped following which Gupta fell on an overhead live wire and got electrocuted, an official at Vasai railway police station said. The station authorities immediately cut off power supply at the site. The body was brought down and sent for postmortem, he added.

India with 67,385 tops the list followed by China at 46,299, Nigeria -- 26,039, Pakistan -- 16,787, Indonesia -- 13,020, The US -- 10,452, The Democratic Republic of Congo -- 10,247 and Ethiopia -- 8,493. An estimated 67,385 babies will be born in India, in 2020 on New Year's Day, UNICEF said on Wednesday. Indian babies will account for 17 per cent of the estimated 3,92,078 babies to be born globally on New Year's Day. Fiji in the Pacific will most likely deliver 2020's first baby. The US, its last. Globally, over half of these births are estimated to take place in eight countries. India with 67,385 tops the list followed by China at 46,299, Nigeria -- 26,039, Pakistan -- 16,787, Indonesia -- 13,020, The US -- 10,452, The Democratic Republic of Congo -- 10,247 and Ethiopia -- 8,493. Each January, UNICEF celebrates babies born on New Year's Day, an auspicious day for child birth around the world. Babies born today share their birthday with global icons like, f...

The Sensex of the BSE opened at 41,349.36 points and touched a high of 41,417.82 points and a low of 41,349.36 points. The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) on Wednesday opened on a positive note. The Sensex of the BSE opened at 41,349.36 points and touched a high of 41,417.82 points and a low of 41,349.36 points. On Tuesday the Sensex closed at 41,253.74 points. The Sensex is trading at 41,396.37 points, up by 143.23 points or 0.35 per cent. On the other hand, the broader 50-scrip Nifty at National Stock Exchange (NSE) opened at 12,202.15 points after closing at 12,168.45 points on Tuesday. The Nifty was trading at 12,213.75 points in the morning.

New Delhi:  A day after the government said all operators will be allowed to participate in the upcoming 5G trials, the Department of Telecom (DoT) held a meeting with various service providers and equipment vendors, including Huawei, to discuss the way forward. The meeting on Tuesday, chaired by Telecom Secretary Anshu Prakash, lasted for over an hour. An official with one of the telcos said that all operators attended the meeting. A Huawei executive, who was present at the meeting, declined to comment on the proceedings. Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday said the government will allocate airwaves to all telecom service providers for conducting trials of super-fast speed 5G networks. As things stand today, India will not bar any equipment suppliers in the upcoming trials for 5G. Asked specifically about the status of Huawei in this context, the minister had said, "All players mean all players". This stance is expected to spell relief for the Chinese gear m...

New Delhi:  With the New Year 2020, several key changes to be applicable from today (January 1, 2020), which are likely to impact your monthly household budget. The country's biggest lender State Bank of India is all set to roll in new changes in their banking system along with several other players in the market. These changes include reduced SBI loan EMI, SBI OTP-based cash withdrawal system, no MDR charges applicable on payment via RuPay and UPI, no charges on NEFT facility, pension commutation under EPFO, Rs 10,000 penalty on filing ITR and across-the-board hike in railway fare.  1. SBI cuts external benchmark lending rate by 25 bps SBI has lowered its external benchmark based rate (EBR) by 25 basis points (0.25 per cent) to 7.80 per cent from 8.05 per cent per annum. 100 basis points/bps = 1 percentage point. The new rates will come into effect from January 1, 2020. SBI becomes the first bank to cut its external benchmark rate after the RBI’s monetary policy ...

New Delhi:  India will launch Chandrayaan-3 in 2020, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Tuesday, asserting that the mission cost will be less than Chandrayaan-2. Singh, who is the Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office, said it is wrong to term Chandrayaan-2 as a disappointment since it was India's maiden attempt to land on the lunar surface and no country could do so in its first attempt. "Yes, the lander and rover mission will mostly likely happen in 2020. However, as I have said before, the Chandrayaan-2 mission cannot be called a failure as we have learnt a lot from it. There is no country in the world that has landed on its first attempt. The US took several attempts. But we will not need so many attempts," Singh said. He added that the experience gathered from Chandrayaan-2 and available infrastructure will bring down the cost of Chandrayaan-3. He, however, declined to specify the month of the third lunar mission launch. Chandrayaan-2 missio...

New Delhi:  The situation in Delhi still remains grim with cold wave continuing to mark its presence in the national capital. According to news agency ANI, the minimum temperature at Safdarjung was recorded at 2.4 degrees Celsius on Wednesday. Visuals from India Gate present a picture with a dense fog that continues to cloud several parts of Delhi.  On Tuesday, however, the residents of the national capital got some respite from the bone-chilling cold after the temperature at Safdarjung Road was recorded at 4 degrees Celsius. However, a thick layer of fog was witnessed throughout the city in the morning, reducing the visibility to less than 200 metres.  The extreme weather has been causing several flights and trains to be delayed. At least 34 Delhi-bound trains were delayed by at least 15 hours due to dense fog in several parts of northern India, on Tuesday. On Monday, more than 500 flights were delayed and several were cancelled due to dense fog over IGI airport. ...

The first day of the new year has turned out to be a treat for the fans of Ravi Teja. The superstar kickstarted the new year by releasing the first look of his upcoming film,  Krack.  In the first look poster, Ravi Teja can be seen in a badass avatar of a cop. By the look of it,  Krack  seems to be an outright masala action entertainer. The movie also stars Shruti Haasan in the lead role. Another interesting thing about the poster or rather the movie is that it is going to be based on real events as suggested by the poster.  Sharing the first look poster with his fans, Ravi Teja tweeted, "Wishing everyone a very #HappyNew2020 May this new year fill your life with love happiness and joy #Krack".  Check out the first look poster of  Krack  as well as Ravi Teja's tweet below:  Ravi Teja ✔ @RaviTeja_offl Wishing everyone a very # HappyNew2020 May this new year fill your life with love happiness and joy # Krack ...

2020 is here, and you must be wondering how you can send greetings to your friends and family in a more personal way on WhatsApp since the most widely used messaging app doesn't offer any additional setting for creating or choosing event-specific stickers on WhatsApp. Here in this post, we have you covered and bring you options with which you can create new stickers to greet your loved ones on new year's eve.  To start, WhatsApp doesn't offer any custom option for stickers which means you have to download third-party apps, and this is valid across Android and iOS. Another important thing to note here is WhatsApp for iPhone doesn't offer an option to download from within the app which means you have to rely on third-party sticker apps and most of them are free apps with limited access to stickers. So if you don't want to spend on on third-party stickers, you can stay away from these. Android users, on the other hand, have plenty of free apps to check out. We tested ...

New Delhi:  The year 2019 was guided by some of the key factors including announcements made by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to give a boost to the economy, tax proposals for India Inc and foreign portfolio investors (FPIs), the slowdown in the economy, a total of 135 bps rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), trade war concerns, etc. Last week, Sensex had shed 0.26 per cent and Nifty 0.21 per cent, as holiday mood among investors brought down volumes.  According to  Siddhartha Khemka, Head – Retail Research at Motilal Oswal Financial Services , "Nifty surpassed the 12,000 mark in Nov’19 and continuously touched new highs in Dec’19 on the back of improved sentiments. In addition, FIIs buying streak (Net inflow of more than INR950bn till date), which touched a seven-month high in November, uplifted the markets. Sentiments revived post the corporate tax rate cut announcement in Sep’19. While the benchmark indices have been touching new highs, not many portf...