The All-India Consumer Price Index Numbers for Agricultural Labourers and Rural Labourers (Base: 1986-87=100) for the month of July, 2020 increased by 3 and 4 points to stand at 1021 (One thousand and twenty one) and 1028 (One thousand and twenty eight) points respectively. The major contribution towards the rise in general index of Agricultural … Read more
The Labour Bureau, an attached office of the M/o Labour and Employment, has been compiling Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers every month on the basis of the retail prices of selected items collected from 289 markets spread over 78 industrially important centres in the country. The index is compiled for 78 centres and All-India and … Read more
The Sensex is up 342.98 points or 1% at 34658.61, while the Nifty is higher by 96.10 points or 0.93% at 10399.60. The market breadth is positive as 415 shares advanced, against a decline of 99 shares, while 3,044 shares are unchanged. Among sectors, banks are trading strong, while automobiles, energy, FMCG, and metals are … Read more
The S&P BSE Sensex sunk as much as 1,037.36 points and the Nifty50 hit 10,138.60 level, 321.5 points below its previous close. The domestic equity markets caught on to the global fever as both the equity benchmarks cracked in the opening trade. The S&P BSE Sensex sunk as much as 1,037.36 points and the Nifty50 hit … Read more
Dr Max Ortiz Catalan of Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has developed a new theory for the origin of the mysterious condition, ‘phantom limb pain’. Published in the journal Frontiers in Neurology, his hypothesis builds upon his previous work on a revolutionary treatment for the condition, that uses machine learning and augmented reality. Phantom limb … Read more
Somewhere in the American Southwest or northern Mexico, there are probably the ruins of a scarlet macaw breeding operation dating to between 900 and 1200 C.E., according to a team of archaeologists who sequenced the mitochondrial DNA of bird remains found in the Chaco Canyon and Mimbres areas of New Mexico. Remains of a thriving … Read more
The stock markets started the week on Monday on a negative note, with the S&P BSE Sensex dipping 56.31 points or 0.16 per cent to trade at 35,633.29 in early morning trade. The Nifty50 index fell 20.60 points or 0.19 per cent to trade at 10,807 mark. The domestic indices were down due to passive … Read more
