London’s continuing status as the capital of global finance is in doubt with Britain’s biggest banks preparing to relocate outside the country by early 2017 as Brexit-related discourse suggests that banks and other Financial Institutions will not be able to retain EU-wide access.
Reliance Industries, operator of the world’s biggest oil-refining complex, has forayed into cooking gas retailing, launching a 4 kg LPG cylinder on pilot basis.
Ritu Phogat, youngest of Phogat sisters won the gold medal in 48 kg category in the senior women’s national wrestling championship in Gonda, Uttar Pradesh.
India’s oldest aircraft carrier, INS Viraat began its last voyage on Sunday from Kochi to Mumbai where it will be decommissioned. The date for its decommissioning is yet to be decided.
The 28000 tonne warship was inducted into the Indian Navy in May 1987. It was commissioned in the UK’s Royal Navy in 1959.The British operated it for 27 years.
Elections in five states after budget on Feb 1
Uttar Pradesh, which is set to witness game changer elections, and four other states will go to the polls simultaneously in Feb-March next year, shortly after the presentation of the budget on February 1.
While it will be single day polling in Punjab, Goa, Uttarakhand and Manipur, UP is likely to have seven phases.