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…]
New Delhi: To contain the rise in jet fuel prices and its cascading impact on air ticket prices, Civil Aviation Ministry will urge the Finance Ministry to bring the particular fuel type under the ambit of GST. Civil Aviation Secretary Rajiv Nayan Choubey on Tuesday said, a proposal will be[Read More…]
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah on Tuesday assured that the government will come up with a solution in three-four days to keep a check on increasing fuel prices in the country. We are taking an increase in fuel prices very seriously… oil prices have increased according to[Read More…]
New Delhi: At 32 per cent, the rate of job offer declines is maximum in India’s Information and Technology (IT) sector, show results of a new survey of mid and senior level candidates. In terms of job offer declines, the IT sector is followed by the offshoring sector at nearly[Read More…]
Jaipur: The country will remember the Narendra Modi government for pushing petrol and diesel prices to record high, said the Congress party on Monday. The rise in petrol and diesel prices also increase the rates of other essential commodities and services that lead to inflation, causing worries to the common[Read More…]
New Delhi: With transport fuel prices in Delhi touching an all-time high, industry chambers, Ficci and Assocham, on Monday called for the government to urgently reduce fuel excise duties. It also urged the government to bring automobile fuels under the purview of Goods and Services Tax (GST). The price of[Read More…]
New Delhi: The government has not taken a final decision on changing the existing rules to allocate the service and state to those qualifying the All India Civil Services Examination, informed sources said here on Sunday. The clarification from sources in Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), which is the[Read More…]
New Delhi: Bihar-based Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) on Sunday launched its Halla Bol, Darwaza Khol campaign aimed at advocating the cause of inclusiveness in the Indian judiciary system and creating awareness about the issue. RLSP has always stood by the disadvantaged sections of the society and this campaign is[Read More…]
Raipur: Six police personnel were killed and another was critically wounded in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district on Sunday when a landmine planted by Maoists ripped through the vehicle they were travelling in. P. Sundarraj, Deputy Inspector General of Police (Dantewada Range), told IANS: Six personnel were killed while one was seriously[Read More…]
I have never seen the electronic media so totally defiant of the BJP government. Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s avowed intention to calm Kashmir by announcing a Ramadan ceasefire appears to have been dismissed as appeasement of Pakistan and terrorists. A guest peering out of one of the six windows on[Read More…]
Raipur: Hitting out at the BJP-led central government and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said an atmosphere of all-round fear prevailed in the country and even the Supreme Court Judges and the media are panicky. Addressing panchayat representatives at Jan Swaraj Sammelan in Raipur[Read More…]
