Bharat Express

Srushti Sharma




Bharat Express News Network


Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) on Wednesday said it has appointed S Sunder Krishnan as Chief Risk Officer (CRO). He replaces Pratap Chandra Paikray, who has ceased to be CRO, LIC said in a regulatory filing. Krishnan, a chartered accountant, worked in leadership roles at Reliance Nippon Life Insurance for 18 years.  He has …

Anuj Choudhary, Research Analyst at Sharekhan by BNP Paribas, said the Indian rupee depreciated on dollar demand from foreign banks and importers.

The two militants, identified as self-styled sergeants Major Bibek Asom and Mrigen Asom, were apprehended from Phaneng along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border, police added. Security and patrolling had intensified in Tinsukia following the grenade blast near an army camp at Dirak in Tinsukia on November 22. The ULFA(I) had claimed responsibility for the blast along …

West Bengal Cabinet cleared a proposal to appoint Rajeev Kumar as acting Director General of Police (DGP). Kumar, currently Principal Secretary in the Information Technology Department, had earlier served as Commissioner of Kolkata Police. A 1989-batch IPS officer, Kumar will be replacing the current DGP, Manoj Malviya, who is scheduled to retire on Thursday.

EAM S Jaishankar posts, “A wide ranging and useful meeting with FM Sergey Lavrov of Russia. As strategic partners, discussed the international situation and contemporary issues. Exchanged views on Indo-Pacific, the Ukraine conflict, the Gaza situation, Afghanistan and Central Asia, BRICS, SCO, G20 and the UN. Noted the progress in our economic cooperation, energy trade, …

A fifty-eight-year-old daily wager died of COVID-19 on Wednesday in a government hospital for chest disease here. Director of Health G Sriramulu told PTI that the worker had co-morbidities, including a cardiac problem. He was first admitted to the Government General Hospital here. As he was diagnosed with Covid pneumonia, he was later shifted to …

On the Covid situation, Delhi Health Minister and AAP leader Saurabh Bhardwaj says, “In Delhi, we have started RTPCR testing and around 250 to 400 RTPCR tests are being conducted daily. 2 positive cases were there in yesterday’s report. A total of 4-5 patients are admitted to the hospital. No death has been reported.”

Five sub-themes being discussed at the conference are land and property, electricity, drinking water, health, and schooling.

According to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, the organisation and its members were engaged in secessionist and anti-national activities in Jammu and Kashmir.

The minister's statement comes amid an outrage over the killing of three civilians in Poonch district on December 22.