Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal visited the Ghazipur landfill site on Thursday and said the upcoming MCD polls would be fought on the garbage issue as he promised to clean Delhi in five years if his AAP won the civic body election.Scores of BJP supporters staged a protest and raised slogans against Kejriwal. In turn, Aam […]
A Delhi-bound Akasa Air plane was hit by a bird during the climb-out on Thursday morning, according to India’s aviation regulator. The Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft, operated by the recently launched budget airline Akasa Air, suffered a radome damage due to the bird hit at 1900 feet, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation said. […]
In a historic move, BCCI on Thursday announced equal pay for all centrally contracted men and women Team India cricketers. BCCI secretary Jay Shah took to Twitter to announce the development. “I’m pleased to announce BCCI’s first step towards tackling discrimination. We are implementing a pay equity policy for our contracted women cricketers. The match […]
A day after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal sought printing of images of Lord Ganesha and Goddess Lakshmi on currency notes, Congress MP Manish Tewari on Thursday asked why not BR Ambedkar’s photo on a new series of notes.The AAP national convener’s demand drew sharp reactions from the Congress with its Punjab unit chief Amarinder […]
India is among the top eight countries which is expected to witness salary hike in 2023, this amid soaring inflation. The Asian countries including China, Vietnam and Saudi Arabia are among the top 10 nations which are expected to witness real salaries hike, Bloomberg quoted ECA’s Salary Trends Survey report. India’s neighbours Pakistan and Sri […]
Elon Musk posted a video showing him strolling into Twitter headquarters ahead of a Friday deadline to close his $44 billion deal to buy the company.Musk also changed his Twitter profile to refer to himself as “Chief Twit” and his location as Twitter headquarters, which is based in San Francisco. The video showed him carrying […]
Three Punjabi men were among six people who have been charged in the Peel municipality in Toronto, in connection with an international drug trafficking enterprise, which led to the seizure of USD 25 million worth of illegal narcotics.Jaspreet Singh, 28, from Brampton; Ravinder Boparai, 27, from Mississauga; Gurdeep Gakhal, 38, from Caledon, were among the […]
Veteran leader Mallikarjun Kharge formally took over as Congress president on Wednesday after he was handed over the certificate of election to the top post at a function at the AICC headquarters here.Kharge, the first non-Gandhi to head the party in 24 years, had defeated Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor in a direct contest for the […]
The Competition Commission on Tuesday slapped a penalty of Rs 936.44 crore on Google for abusing its dominant position with respect to Play Store policies and directed the company to cease and desist from unfair business practices.In a release, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) said it has also directed to modify its conduct within […]
Salman Rushdie has lost sight in an eye and his one hand is incapacitated following the brutal knife attack on the acclaimed Mumbai-born author in August, his literary agent said.Rushdie, who faced Islamist death threats for years after writing “The Satanic Verses” book, was stabbed in the neck and stomach on stage in front of […]