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
Jammu: Minister of State in PMO Jitendra Singh on Saturday said security forces were soft targets of Kashmiri politicians who won’t criticize militants fearing they would strike back. The BJP MP from Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir was reacting to a tweet by former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, sharply criticizing[Read More…]
New Delhi: Small amendments to law would solve no purpose and the justice delivery system of the country needs a complete reform, said Supreme Court judge Ranjan Gogoi on Friday. A tweak here and a tweak there in the law pacifying the agitated mood is short justice and then there[Read More…]
New Delhi: The election to three Rajya Sabha seats from Kerala will be held on June 21, the Election Commission announced on Wednesday. The vacancies would be created as three members — Joy Abraham, P.J. Kurien and C.P. Narayanan — are due to retire in July on the completion of[Read More…]
Kolkata: A soldier has died here of suspected Nipah virus infection, a Defence spokesman said here on Wednesday. Seenu Prasad, who hails from Kerala and posted at the Eastern Command headquarters Fort William, was admitted to the Command Hospital here on May 20 and passed away on May 25, the[Read More…]
The RSS invite to former President Pranab Mukherjee for an event at its Nagpur headquarters sparked off a controversy, as the Congress and left leaders expressed unhappiness over his acceptance while the BJP and RSS saw nothing wrong in it. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) said in a statement that Mukherjee’s acceptance of the invite for the June 7[Read More…]
Budget passenger carrier IndiGo on Tuesday said that it has decided to reintroduce fuel surcharge on the back of a sharp uptick in the price of Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF). According to the company, it will reintroduce fuel surcharge on domestic flights effective from May 30, 2018. The development assumes significance as jet fuel represents around 40 per[Read More…]
New Delhi: The petrol price in the country’s financial capital breached the Rs 86-a-litre mark on Monday as fuel prices across the country increased for the 15th day in a row after the resumption of the dynamic pricing system on May 14. Petrol was sold at Rs 86.08 per litre[Read More…]
New Delhi: In a jibe at the present regime for trying to appropriate historical figures for its advantage, former Vice President Hamid Ansari on Sunday said that a new set of inventors were trying to make a time machine in order to go back in time and change history. However,[Read More…]
Aizawl: Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday said India is fighting the problems of poverty, illiteracy, atrocities on women and weaker sections, and religious fundamentalism, despite massive growth. India has made rapid strides in various fields since attaining Independence. Yet the country is grappling with problems like poverty, illiteracy,[Read More…]
Thoothukudi/Chennai: London-listed Vedanta Resources on Thursday said that its Sterlite copper smelter plant at Thoothukkudi district, whose closure has been accompanied by two days of rioting, arson and police firing, has not been operating since March 27, 2018. On Wednesday, the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) ordered the closure[Read More…]
Mumbai: High crude oil prices along with a persistent outflow of foreign funds from the country’s equity and debt markets and formation of a non-BJP government in Karnataka weakened the Indian rupee to 68.43 per US dollar. Consequently, the Indian rupee weakened by 38 paise against the US dollar to[Read More…]
New Delhi: Terming it unconstitutional, Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Wednesday said the government’s proposal of allocating cadres and services to candidates selected under civil service examinations only after completion of foundation course will compromise the anonymity and objectivity associated with the exam. It will lead to the preference of[Read More…]
Kolkata: At least 33 passengers in the Kolkata-bound 12278 Puri-Howrah Shatabdi Express were taken ill allegedly after consuming the breakfast served on board on Wednesday morning, a senior railway official said. Fourteen of them had to be briefly hospitalised following complaints of uneasiness and vomiting. Initially, two passengers complained of[Read More…]
New Delhi: The petrol price in India’s financial capital Mumbai touched Rs 84.99 a litre on Wednesday. Petrol prices in Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai have already reached unprecedented levels, and are now setting a new benchmark every other day. In Chennai, price of the fuel breached the Rs 80 a[Read More…]
Mumbai: The eternal monument to love, the Taj Mahal in Agra and the Rajiv Gandhi Bandra Worli Sea Link in Mumbai figure among the Top 10 TripAdvisor’s Travellers’ Choice awards of 2018 for most visited and popular tourist landmarks, it was announced here on Tuesday. The other top Indian monuments[Read More…]
