New Delhi: Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday said the Indian Railways will provide free meals to passengers on board if trains get delayed on a Sunday by five-six hours due to planned maintenance works on tracks. The Railways will provide free meals and refreshments to the passengers travelling on[Read More…]
Hyderabad: Rejecting the United Nations report on alleged human rights vioaltions in the Kashmir Valley, the MIM has said that the world body has no right to interfere in the internal matters of India, but also dubbed the report as diplomatic failure of the Centre. Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) chief Asaduddin[Read More…]
Panaji: In what seems to be a crackdown on errant tourists, Goa’s Tourism Department on Friday said it was working on a ban on swimming in the sea from dusk to dawn, limit tourism activity to a limited area on a beach and even put together punitive measures for tourists[Read More…]
Kolkata: Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Hansraj Gangaram Ahir on Friday condemned the brutal killing of renowned journalist Shujaat Bukhari outside his office in Srinagar and said none of the accused involved in the murder will be spared. It is a sad incident. We condemn the killing of[Read More…]
New Delhi: High oil prices widened India’s May trade deficit even as exports rose by 20.18 per cent to $28.86 billion from $24.01 billion worth of merchandise shipped out during the corresponding month of last year. According to data released by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry on Friday, petroleum[Read More…]
Jalgaon (Maharashtra): Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday blamed the RSS and the Bharatiya Janata Party’ politics after two Dalits and a tribal boy were paraded nude and assaulted for swimming in a well in Wakadi village here. The sole crime of these Dalit children was they were taking a[Read More…]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir police late on Thursday night released CCTV pictures of the bike-borne assailants who might have shot senior journalist Shujaat Bukhari outside his office in Srinagar. The photos show the assailants riding a motorcycle and a small sack which may have been used to carry the weapons[Read More…]
Srinagar: Rising Kashmir editor Shujaat Bukhari was Friday laid to rest in his ancestral village with thousands of friends and admirers braving heavy rain to mourn a veteran journalist, who had championed peace in times of conflict and may have been killed for it. English newspaper ‘Rising Kashmir’ published its daily[Read More…]
New Delhi: Driven by exclusive online launches and strong promotions, e-commerce platforms captured a record 38 per cent share of the total smartphone channels in India in the first quarter of 2018, a new report said on Friday. According to Counterpoint Research’s Market Monitor service, Flipkart continued its dominance in[Read More…]
Agartala: The Tripura government has enhanced the journalists pension from Rs 1,000 to Rs 10,000, a Minister here said. The cabinet increased the journalists’ monthly pension from Rs 1,000 to Rs 10,000. The monthly pension of Rs 10,000 is second highest in India after Tamil Nadu, Law and Education Minister[Read More…]
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…]