The northeastern state of Sikkim has been accredited of having the best working conditions for women, while the national capital Delhi ranked lowest, according to a report. The report released jointly by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a top American think-tank, and Nathan Associates, gave Sikkim 40[Read More…]
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday cleared the merger of the Railway and Union Budget from 2017-18 onwards. The Railways, which is the country’s largest employer, has to bear an additional burden of about ₹40,000 crore on account of implementation of the 7th Pay Commission awards, besides an annual outgo of[Read More…]
In a shocking incident that came to light on Wednesday, a speeding car hit a man on the highway in Telangana’s Mahbubnagar and kept going for around 3 km with the body on its roof on Monday night. The driver, eventually stopped by locals, escaped. He has been identified as[Read More…]
The government on Tuesday told the Supreme Court it has no objection on Italy’s fresh plea seeking modification of bail conditions of marine Massimiliano Latorre to enable him remain in that country till an international tribunal decided which country had the right to try the case of killing of two[Read More…]
In wake of the cross-border terror attack from Pakistan on an Indian army base in Jammu and Kashmir that left 18 Indian soldiers dead, India on Tuesday used the biggest international forum to say that terrorism was the biggest threat to human rights. “Mr. President, I do want to stress[Read More…]
Two Delhi-based non-governmental organisations filed a class action suit against Ola and Uber seeking damages worth more than ₹9,000 crore for imposing surge pricing in the last three years across India. The suit has been filed by the NGOs – Nyaybhoomi and Pariwar Unity Road Safety Life Safety – before[Read More…]
Urban development minister M Venkaiah Naidu today announced third set of smart cities taking the total number to 60. These 27 cities will require investment of Rs 66,883 crore. The third list constitutes five cities from Maharashtra namely Aurangabad, Kalyan –Dombivali, Nagpur, Nashik and Thane. Four cities, each from Tamil[Read More…]
What is the worst flight experience that you have had? Horrible co-passengers who occupy your space, getting the aisle-facing seat, bad food or worse a crying, bawling baby? Well, this is nothing in comparison to the trauma faced by passengers of Delhi bound flight 9W 2552. The passengers were in[Read More…]
Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) president Bharat Solanki said that the the situation in Jammu and Kashmir would not have worsened if Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi was the Prime Minister. Solanki slammed the PDP-BJP led coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir for the rise in Pakistan sponsored terror attacks in that[Read More…]
In a tragic incident, a 21-year old woman died after being stabbed 22 times by a jilted lover on Tuesday morning in full public view, police said. The woman has been identified as Karuna, a resident of Burari area in north Delhi. She was a teacher at Novel Reaches School,[Read More…]
Security personnel at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport went into a tizzy on Monday after receiving a phone call threatening to blow up an Air India flight. The Guwahati-bound flight from the city was delayed by around two hours following a unanimous call saying a bomb has been[Read More…]
Wife of former union minister P Chidambaram, senior lawyer Nalini Chidambaram, has moved the Madras high court against the summons from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) which is after her for receiving a fee of over Rs 1 crore from the beleaguered Saradha Group. In her petition, scheduled to be heard[Read More…]
After almost a week of agitation over the Cauvery water sharing row, the Supreme Court will announce the verdict today. The Cauvery supervisory committee on Monday ordered the release of 3,000 cusecs of water per day to Tamil Nadu from 21 to 30 September. This decision sparked another round of[Read More…]
As tension simmers between India and Pakistan after the Uri attack, an NDTV journalist was on Monday asked to leave a press briefing of the Pakistan Foreign Secretary in New York. As reported by NDTV, the journalist Namrata Brar was asked to leave the room at the Roosevelt Hotel where[Read More…]
Mudassar Yusuf, a student at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has been expelled for posting an objectionable comment on Facebook after the Uri terror attack which left 18 soldiers dead. The vice-chancellor of the university took the decision to expel the student after personally probing the matter. He termed his post as[Read More…]
Brahamdagh Bugti, Baloch leader who has been living in self-imposed exile in Switzerland has applied for asylum in India. “We want that the Indian Government should open the doors for Baloch people and provide them access, including myself,” said Bugti. He added that India’s intervention is important for the cause[Read More…]
Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan has resumed his role as “Distinguished Service Professor of Finance” at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and will teach international corporate finance there in the winter of 2017. Giving details of Rajan’s course schedule for 2016-17, Chicago Booth[Read More…]
Two civilians were killed and five others injured in police open firing in Banderdubi and Deochurchang areas of Nagaon district neat Kaziranga National Park in an eviction drive carried out by Assam government. The police opened fire on protesters who were demanding compensation before they move out from areas. The[Read More…]
Taking a sly dig on Vijay Mallya, the Bombay High Court on Monday observed that the businessman aptly named his company ‘Kingfisher’, as like the bird of the same name he too flew away without bothering about boundaries. The remark was made by a division bench of Justices SC Dharmadhikari[Read More…]
In a tragic incident, at least 35 passengers were killed when a bus fell into a roadside pond in Bihar’s Madhubani district. The accident took place at Basaitha chowk under Bennipatti police station in Madhubani, about 50 km from the district headquarters. Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Benipatti Nirmala Kumari[Read More…]
In a humanitarian gesture, seven people got a new lease of life after the family a 25-year-old man, declared brain-dead after an accident, donated his vital organs. Vishnu G Krishnan, a welder and lone breadwinner of his family, was declared brain-dead on Monday after his motorcycle collided with another bike[Read More…]
The biggest initial public offering (IPO) in nearly six years of ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, began on Monday, with investors bidding for 4.08 lakh shares within the first 10 minutes of the bidding process. As reported by ET, the issue has 0.30% subscription against the issue size of 13.23 crore shares[Read More…]
Facing allegations of sexual allegations, AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan on Monday went to the Jamia Nagar police station to get himself arrested but police refused to apprehend him. “We will not arrest him now. Whatever he is doing is of his own accord. We will go by our investigation,” a[Read More…]
Two successful breaches one at the Line of Control (LoC) at Uri and second the perimeter of the Army base that saw the fencing wire being cut, resulted in the Uri attack. Agencies are probing the two-point breach that helped suspected Jaish-e-Mohammad fidayeen access heavily-guarded camp and execute one of the deadliest[Read More…]
Lt Governor Najeeb Jung visited several hospitals across the city on Sunday. Stressing on “special attention” to the elderly, he took stock of their preparedness in dealing with the rising number of chikungunya and dengue cases in the national capital. His inspection comes a day after the ruling AAP government[Read More…]
