Maharashtra BJP President Chandrakant Patil filed his nomination from Kothrud constituency in Pune, earlier today. Eleven people were killed during protests overnight in two southern Iraqi cities, including a policeman, police and medical sources said on Thursday, raising the death toll to 18 since anti-government protests turned violent two days ago.
Seven protesters and a policeman died in Nassiriya during clashes between demonstrators and security forces. Four more people were killed in the city of Amara, the sources said.
Rajat Monga, the senior group president and former chief financial officer at the troubled lender Yes Bank, has quit, chief executive Ravneet Gill said on Thursday.
The announcement came during a conference call with investors and analysts following a heavy plunge in the bank's share price over the past few sessions.
The bank scrip had dipped to historic lows and lost 22 percent of its value just on Tuesday to close at a low Rs 32, down from a high of Rs 404 in August 2018 when RBI asked Rana Kapoor to leave the bank.
Gill's comments before the markets opened lifted the stock, though, rallying over 24 percent on the BSE, whose benchmark was down around 0.3 percent.
For the first time in the last three weeks, petrol and diesel prices were decreased today by government-owned fuel retailers.
The impact of a decline in crude oil rates in the international market during the last few days can now be felt in fuel rates in India. The price of petrol fell by 10 paise a litre while diesel by 6 paise a litre today.