New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is responding well to treatment and is likely to fully recover in a few days, the AIIMS said on Wednesday. He has shown significant improvement with treatment. His kidney function has improved with good urine output. His blood pressure, heart rate and[Read More…]
Jammu: Four BSF troopers were killed and three others injured on Wednesday in ceasefire violation by Pakistan Rangers on the international border in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir. The three junior officers and a Constable were killed in unprovoked shelling and firing by Pakistan Rangers targeting Baba Chamliyal outpost[Read More…]
New Delhi: RBI Governor Urjit Patel, who was on Tuesday grilled by parliamentarians over challenges being faced by the banking sector including the huge number and size of bad loans and frauds like the one in Punjab National Bank, sought more powers for the central bank to oversee Public Sector[Read More…]
Lucknow: Information sought under the RTI Act about the allotment of land to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for its new headquarters at 6, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Marg in New Delhi has been denied by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, an activist said on Tuesday. City based[Read More…]
Indore: Bhaiyyuji Maharaj, a Madhya Pradesh-based spiritual guru who had prominent followers from different political parties, committed suicide on Tuesday by shooting himself at his residence. The 50-year-old guru, who was recently given the status of a Minister of State by the government in a controversial decision which he had[Read More…]
New Delhi: High food and fuel prices lifted India’s May retail inflation close to the 5 per cent mark, even as the manufacturing sector pushed the country’s April industrial production higher by 4.9 per cent. The macro-data points — Consumer Price Index (CPI) Numbers for May and the Quick estimates[Read More…]
Chandigarh/New Delhi: Amid flak from the sporting fraternity over its move asking sportspersons to deposit one third of their earnings with the Haryana Sports Council, the state government on Friday defended its decision to do so. Informed sources in the government said the April 30 notification was as per the[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Centre to set up a committee to study how the temples of cultural and architectural importance across the country were managed, particularly vis-a-vis facilities for pilgrims and utilisation of donations/offerings. A vacation bench of Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel and Justice Ashok[Read More…]
New Delhi: Aiming to increase earnings, Indian Railways will add a saloon to mail/express trains, if booked by passengers for exclusive travel for reaching destination in comfort by paying a little more. Known as an Inspection Car, a saloon is a specially designed rail coach with two bedrooms, a drawing/dining[Read More…]
Nagpur: Former President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday hailed Kehsav Baliram Hedgewar, the founder of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), as a great son of Mother India. Today I came here to pay my respect and homage to a great son of Mother India, Mukherjee wrote in the visitor’s book as[Read More…]
New Delhi: Sternly ruling out any rollback of deregulation of fuel prices, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday said despite having the burden of repaying oil bonds, the government will take full responsibility of keeping fuel prices in check and ensuring they don’t go out of reach of the common[Read More…]
New Delhi/Vijayawada: Five Lok Sabha MPs of the YSR Congress on Wednesday met Speaker Sumitra Mahajan to convey that they stand by their resignations and urged her to accept the same immediately. The MPs had submitted their resignations on April 6 — the last day of Budget session — to[Read More…]
Shillong: National Commission for Minorities member Manjit Singh Rai on Wednesday described as unfeasible the move of the Meghalaya government to re-locate the Sikh inhabitants from the Sweepers Lane here. Sweepers Lane, known to the local people as Them Metor, is located in the commercial area of Shillong near Iewduh[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday permitted the Centre to go ahead with reservation in promotions to certain categories of staff in accordance with law but did not stay a Delhi High Court judgment that quashed an office memorandum on such reservation. It is made clear that the Union[Read More…]
New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor was on Tuesday summoned as an accused in connection with the suicide of his wife Sunanda Pushkar after a court took cognisance of the police chargesheet and found sufficient grounds to proceed against him for abetment to suicide and cruelty. The 62-year-old parliamentarian from[Read More…]
Mumbai: At least 13 persons have perished in different incidents, mostly by drowning, in the first monsoon weekend in the past 72 hours. Five persons, including four of a family, from the Immaculate Conception Colony in Borivali drowned at a beach picnic in Ratnagiri on Sunday afternoon. They are Monica[Read More…]
New Delhi: Cycling is the best and cheapest form of exercise and must be promoted on a sustained basis, Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu said on Sunday. Cycling is the best and cheapest form of exercise to keep yourself healthy and people must be encouraged to adopt such modes of[Read More…]
New Delhi: In a major scare, an Indian Air Force plane carrying External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj lost contact with air traffic control for almost 14 minutes on Sunday. Sushma Swaraj, who was travelling to Mauritius for the BRICS summit, departed from Thiruvananthapuram at 2.08 pm. While the aircraft changed[Read More…]
Jammu: Two Border Security Force (BSF) troopers were killed and six others injured on Sunday in indiscriminate Pakistan shelling and firing on the international border in Jammu and Kashmir. The victims, Assistant Sub-Inspector S.N. Yadav and constable V.K. Pandey, were killed in the ceasefire violation in Akhnoor sector’s Pargwal sub-sector,[Read More…]
Bengaluru: Within days of taking charge as the Chief Minister of Karnataka, H.D. Kumaraswamy has banned the state government officials from carrying mobiles to his meetings to enforce discipline and avoid diversions, a top official said on Saturday. The Chief Minister has directed to ensure that the officials do not[Read More…]
Kolkata: The Election Commission of India has delisted more than 1,000 political parties in the last two years for being inactive for a long period and not taking part in the election process. The Supreme Court held that the Election Commission cannot de-register political parties. However, the EC has started[Read More…]
New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi will address a farmer’s rally in Mandsaur of Madhya Pradesh on June 6 — the day seven farmers had died in a police firing last year. Gandhi threw his weight behind the farmers’ protest in several states between June 1 and June 10, to[Read More…]
Chandigarh: Justice Krishna Murari on Saturday took charge as the new Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. Haryana Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki on Friday administered the oath of office to Justice Murari at a ceremony held at the Haryana Raj Bhavan here. Judges of the Punjab and[Read More…]
New Delhi: Prices of petrol and diesel fell around nine paise in the four metro cities on Saturday. In the national capital, petrol was sold at Rs 78.20 per litre, down from Rs 78.29 on Friday, data on the Indian Oil Corp’s website showed. In Mumbai and Chennai, petrol prices[Read More…]
Srinagar: A soldier shot himself to death in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Saturday, police said. Havaldar Rajpal Singh of 24 Rashtriya Rifles killed himself in Sarfraw area. A case has been registered. Procedural formalities are being completed, a police officer said. –IANS
