Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) prices were reduced by 2.2 per cent Saturday, reflecting a fall in international oil prices. Oil marketing companies, or OMCs, cut ATF, or fuel used in aircraft and helicopters, prices by ₹3,084.94 per kilolitre to ₹1,38,147.93 per kl – per a notification by state-run retailers. This is only the second time […]
Activist Teesta Setalvad was enacting a larger conspiracy to destabilise an elected Gujarat government soon after a train in Godhra was set in fire in 2002, and had received financial assistance from a top leader of a rival political party, the state government’s special investigation team (SIT) has said. In its affidavit in the city […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday unveiled the Bundelkhand Expressway in Jalaun district of Uttar Pradesh. The 296 kilometres-long four-lane Bundelkhand Expressway has been constructed at a cost of around ₹14,850 crore rupees under the Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA). The foundation stone of the expressway was laid by the prime minister in […]
India will emphasize on PLA Air Force to respect the 10 kilometer no-fly zone convention along the Ladakh Line of Actual Control (LAC) even as it will seek withdrawal of forward deployed PLA troops at patrolling point 15 (Khugrang Nullah) at the 16th India-China senior military commanders meeting tomorrow, reported Hindustan Times. There has been […]
Former speaker and senior SAD leader Nirmal Singh Kahlon (79) dies in sleep. He was a minister of Rural Development and Panchayats state of Punjab from 1997 to 2002 and Speaker of the Punjab Legislative Assembly from 2007 to 2012. He was charged in a recruitment scam case, but was later acquitted by the courts.
The Centre plans to introduce a bill to replace the 155-year-old ‘Press and Registration of Books Act’ with a simplified version that decriminalises various provisions and brings digital media under its ambit.The government plans to introduce the ‘Press and Registration of Periodicals Bill, 2022’ during the monsoon session of Parliament beginning Monday. “The Bill seeks […]
The BJP parliamentary board will meet on Saturday evening to pick the party’s candidate for the post of Vice President of the country. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other senior leaders of the party will attend the meeting, which will be followed by an all-party MPs’ meet being held ahead of the presidential election on […]
A probe has been ordered by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation after an IndiGo flight – that took of from Delhi, and was headed to Vadodara (in Gujarat) – was diverted on Thursday night to Jaipur in Rajasthan. The flight was reported to have faced some technical glitches. “IndiGo flight 6E-859, operating between Delhi […]
The US House of Representatives on Thursday passed a legislative amendment that approves an India-specific waiver for punitive CAATSA sanctions for its purchase of the S-400 missile defence system from Russia.Authored and introduced by Indian-American Congressman Ro Khanna, the amendment urges the Biden administration to use their authority to provide India with a Countering America’s […]
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned, Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena officially announced on Friday, after a week of dramatic developments and massive protests against the government for “mishandling the economy” that bankrupted the country.The 73-year-old leader on Thursday emailed his resignation letter to the Speaker soon after he was allowed by Singapore to […]