NEW DELHI: A video from Ladakh’s high-altitude Fotu La Pass sparked widespread outrage on social media after a man from Haryana was seen defacing an official Border Roads Organisation (BRO) milestone by pasting a “Gurjar” sticker on it. The incident, which occurred at an altitude of 13,479 feet, has been strongly condemned as vandalism and … Read more
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday personally addressed concerns over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, urging district magistrates to ensure that voters face no inconvenience over “logical discrepancies.“Banerjee made the remarks during an unexpected meeting with district magistrates at the state secretariat, Nabanna, which was chaired by chief … Read more
NEW DELHI: Indian Railways’ first Vande Bharat sleeper train attracted widespread attention for its modern features and promise of faster overnight travel. However, Indian tourists were quick to prove a lack of civic sense, as a video showing litter on the newly inaugurated train emerged. The high-tech Vande Bharat Sleeper, connecting Howrah and Guwahati, was … Read more
NEW DEK: Enforcement Directorate (ED) has written a letter to the Tamil Nadu govt asking it to register an FIR against municipal administration and water supply (MAWS) minister KN Nehru and take action against corruption in transfer posting of officials in the MAWS dept, while alleging money laundering of Rs 366 crore by the minister … Read more
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court said on Tuesday that prima facie it is convinced that there was a calculated and deep-rooted conspiracy between realtors and financial institutions to exploit the subvention scheme, causing harassment to homebuyers who kept paying EMIs for years for flats which remain elusive. In response to several builders’ plea that homebuyers have … Read more
Modi had previously visited Motihari, Siwan, Madhubani and Patna since April. It may seem to people that Narendra Modi is the third-term PM of the country, he became CM at only 50 years of age and has been head of a govt for 25 continuous years. But above all this in my life is the … Read more
NEW DELHI: “When I reached International Space Station for the first time, the first thing I did was to locate India (on Earth), from where my father belonged to, and Slovenia, from where my mother belonged,” said Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams in Delhi on Tuesday — the only female astronaut who has set the … Read more
In his first appointments after taking over as BJP president, Nitin Nabin on Tuesday named Vinod Tawde as party in-charge for Kerala assembly polls and Union minister Shobha Karandlaje as co-incharge. Tawde will also be election observer for Chandigarh mayoral poll. Ashish Shelar, a minister in Maharashtra govt, is in-charge of Telangana municipal and corporation … Read more
NEW DELHI: Even before Noida International Airport at Jewar commences operation, two MNCs – Panama-headquartered UETA Inc and Singapore-based Heinemann Asia Pacific – have locked horns over allotment of duty-free and retail outlets at the soon to be operationalised airport that would decongest traffic at Delhi airports.UETA on Tuesday challenged before the Supreme Court a … Read more
MUMBAI: India’s new Shanti Act gives American firms an opportunity to collaborate in the fast-growing area of nuclear energy, Vinay Mohan Kwatra, New’s Delhi’s ambassador in Washington, has said.“As interests of the India-US partnership continuously converge and align in this space, American firms can now compete on a level playing field for one of the … Read more