[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday claimed that a CAG report has pointed out that the Centre’s flagship UDAN scheme did not work on 93 per cent of the routes, and said that the common people only got “lies” and “jumlas” from the government.A regional connectivity scheme was launched under the name…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The privileges committee of Lok Sabha on Friday asked suspended Lok Sabha MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury to appear before it on August 30, and provide “oral evidence” to the panel on his alleged “repeated misconduct” for which he was suspended from Lok Sabha on August 10.The Sunil Singh-led House committee, sources said,…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Amid a concerning rise in suicide cases among students in Rajasthan‘s Kota district, the authorities have ordered hostels to install a spring device on ceiling fans to deter students from self-harm.Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot has also called a meeting with the management of coaching institutes to address the rising suicide cases.More…
[ad_1] MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) bought a net $4.50 billion in the spot foreign exchange market in June, data released on Thursday as part of the central bank’s monthly bulletin showed. The RBI purchased $7.79 billion and sold $3.28 billion, the bulletin showed. In May, the central bank had bought a net…
[ad_1] GUWAHATI: The India-Myanmar border town of Moreh virtually looked like a war zone as armed groups and security forces engaged in an intense gunfight after a mob burned down Wednesday morning about 30 houses and shops that have been abandoned in the days following the ethnic strife in Manipur that began on May 3….
[ad_1] BENGALURU: Australia has now started issuing multiple entry business visas with a validity of five years, instead of three earlier, following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the continent this summer and enhanced trade ties between the two countries. This change has come under the “mobility and migration agreement,” while visitor visa (tourist stream)…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: India’s moon-bound spacecraft, Chandrayaan-3, travelled further towards its destination with Isro on Tuesday raising its orbit for the fifth time. “The orbit-raising manoeuvre (Earth-bound perigee firing) is performed successfully from ISTRAC/ISRO, Bengaluru. The spacecraft is expected to attain an orbit of 1,27,609 km x 236 km. The achieved orbit will be confirmed…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The central government is not willing to implement the Constitution, the Supreme Court remarked on Tuesday, as it slammed both the Centre and the Nagaland government over non-implementation of the constitutional scheme of one-third reservation for women in civic body elections in the northeastern state. Observing that Nagaland is a state where…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh alleged on Tuesday that the BJP-led government does not want adequate safeguards in DNA technology and that is why it has withdrawn the DNA Technology (Use and Application) Regulation Bill, 2019 from Parliament. Ramesh said the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi quietly withdrew the Bill…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday stopped the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) till 5pm on Wednesday from conducting a scientific survey/excavation to determine whether a temple had existed on the site of the Gyanvapi mosque next to the Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi to enable the Muslim side to appeal against the…
