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Silver slides for 3rd straight day to Rs 2.6 lakh/kg; gold drops to Rs 1.52 lakh/10g

New Delhi, Feb 2 (PTI) Silver prices extended its steep fall for the third straight day, tumbling Rs 52,000 to Rs 2.60 lakh per kg in the national capital on Monday, while gold fell to Rs 1.52 lakh per 10 grams amid weak global trends and a firm US dollar. According to the All India Sarafa Association, the white metal nosedived Rs 52,000, or nearly 17 per cent, to Rs 2,60,000 per kilogram (inclusive of all taxes). On Saturday, the metal tanked 19 per cent, or Rs 72,500, to Rs 3.12 lakh per kilogram. In the last three sessions, silver

Not being allowed to quote from ex-army chief’s book as it indicts PM, defence minister: Rahul Gandhi

New Delhi, Feb 2 (PTI) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday claimed that he was not being allowed to quote from former army chief M M Naravane’s unpublished book in the Lok Sabha because it indicts Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh for “letting down” the army during the 2020 conflict with China. Speaking to reporters in the Parliament House complex here, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha said the government is afraid of a line that he wants to quote from the former army chief’s book and asserted that he would state it

Wearing black, Mamata along with ‘SIR-affected’ families meets CEC in Delhi

New Delhi, Feb 2 (PTI) Wearing black shawls as a mark of protest, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee along with some “SIR-affected” families and party leaders on Monday met Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar here. Last week, CEC Kumar had given time to Banerjee, who has been demanding a halt to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound West Bengal, for a meeting on Monday. Banerjee, who reached the national capital on Sunday, was being accompanied by Trinamool Congress MPs Abhishek Banerjee and Kalyan Banerjee, who is also an advocate. Addressing reporters earlier in the day,

Study suggests 50 per cent of one’s life span could be heritable

New Delhi, Feb 2 (PTI) Genetics may explain about half of a person’s lifespan, a study has suggested, pointing to a far more significant role of genetics than earlier research indicated. The findings, published in the journal Science, show that once mortality due to external factors such as accidents or infections are accounted for, “heritability of human life span due to intrinsic mortality is above 50 per cent”. The researchers from Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden said understanding the heritability of human life span is central to ageing research, yet measuring genes’ influence on longevity

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