New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit poll-bound Tripura and Meghalaya on Sunday and inaugurate and lay the foundation stones of projects worth more than ₹ 6,800 crore there. The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said in a statement that the projects encompass a wide array of sectors, including housing, road, agriculture, telecom, IT, tourism, … Read more
After disrupting the telecom services space, multi-billionaire Mukesh Ambani has launched his next offensive. This time, he is eyeing the country’s vast fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) market, which is already the fourth-largest in the world. Armed with a host of fast-moving packaged food and beverages (F&B), Ambani’s Reliance today forayed into the market under … Read more
The United Kingdom on Friday announced that the visit visas for Indians travelling to the country will now be allocated within 15 working days. “Good news for those travelling from India to UK – visit visas now within standard time of 15 working days (with a small number of trickier cases taking longer),” said Alex … Read more
Reserve Bank of India changed the rules related to bank lockers in 2021 which are effective since January 2022. The primary objective of these bank locker rules was to protect expensive assets from theft and burglaries. With trembling economic inequality, jewelry and cash thefts are still prevalent in many parts of India. After Supreme Court’s … Read more
Kolkata: The West Bengal government on Thursday verbally moved the chief justice’s bench at the Calcutta High Court, seeking permission to file a petition challenging a single bench order that directed the state police not to register any FIR against BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari without permission of the court. The move came after the Supreme … Read more
New Delhi: Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Friday said no Supreme Court bench will be available from December 17 till January 1 during the ensuing winter vacations.The Chief Justice of India’s announcement made in the top court assumes significance in the wake of Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju’s statement in Rajya Sabha on … Read more
New Delhi: Government departments and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) are taking coordinated steps to check Chinese mobile apps offering easy loans and cheating people, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in Rajya Sabha today. READ |‘You are asking wrong minister’: Jaishankar’s savage reply to Pak journos question on ‘terror from New Delhi’ Responding to … Read more
New Delhi: Former chief of Indian Army General MM Naravane (retired), following the recent clash in Arunachal Pradesh, has hit out at the Chinese Army for descending to the level of “prehistoric times” by using “clubs and barbed wires” in the scuffle and said that the Indian Army in warfare would rather open fire than … Read more
Mumbai: Gynaecologist Dr Anahita Pandole, who was arrested for rash driving that resulted in the death of industrialist Cyrus Mistry, has a history of traffic rules violation and was issued challans for over-speeding on several occasions since 2020, a police official said on Thursday. READ | Jio launches true 5G services with unlimited data for … Read more
Mumbai: Reliance Jio today announced that users of iPhone 12 and above would get the Jio True 5G services with unlimited data, starting Thursday. Jio also mentioned in the statement that these users need to update to the latest iPhone iOS and carrier settings. The company said it had provided Jio Welcome Offer on users’ … Read more
New Delhi: After the continuous complaints of chaos and crowding at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA), Delhi, airlines have said in the advisory issued for the passengers that now it will be necessary to reach the airport 3.5 hours before the flight time. The companies have also fixed the weight of the passengers’ bags. … Read more
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday, December 12, dismissed Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia’s plea seeking the quashing of defamation proceedings initiated against him by Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. Sisodia urged the top court to overrule the Gauhati high court’s November 4 order which had dismissed Sisodia’s plea to quash defamation … Read more
New Delhi: Delhi BJP leader Yogendra Chandolia on Tuesday filed a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) against AAP leaders, including Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and MP Sanjay Singh, after being accused of horse-trading. Mr Chandolia, who is in-charge of BJP’s northwest Delhi unit and a former mayor, alleged that Mr Kejriwal was part of … Read more
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday said it has come to his notice that some educational institutions of the state are imposing fine on students for communicating in Punjabi within school campuses. READ | India-China Clash: ‘Our army gave befitting reply,’ says Rajnath Singh The state government will take strict action against such education … Read more
New Delhi: Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday addressed both houses of Parliament on the recent clash between Indian and Chinese soldiers along the contested Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang sector last week. Earlier in the day, the defence minister was briefed by Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan … Read more