Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be among the first leaders to meet Australia’s new prime minister Anthony Albanese during the Quad summit in Tokyo on Tuesday. Albanese, whose Labor Party defeated the Conservatives in the general election, said he would hold one-to-one meets with PM Modi, US president Joe Biden and Japanese premier Fumio Kishida, […]
Bowing to public pressure, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday announced a Rs 8 per litre cut in excise duty on petrol and Rs 6 a litre on diesel to avoid increase in fuel prices that were necessitated due to surge in international oil prices. Also, the government will give Rs 200 per cylinder subsidy […]
Veteran Akali leader and former Punjab agriculture minister Tota Singh died in Chandigarh on Saturday. The former Akali Dal chief died of prolonged illness. He was a sitting member of the SGPC. He suffered from pneumonia last year that infected his lungs. He was on medication for the past few months.He started his political career […]
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday posted a tribute to his father former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi remembering him as a visionary leader and a wonderful father whom he dearly misses. “My father was a visionary leader whose policies helped shape modern India,” Rahul Gandhi wrote along with a video of Rajiv Gandhi’s speech: ‘India […]
Around 10 international and domestic flights were on Saturday diverted from Delhi to Shri Guru Ram Das Jee International Airport, Amritsar, after heavy rain and unfavorable weather conditions occurred in Delhi during the night.The Delhi Airport authorities have advised passengers to get in touch with the airlines for updated flight information. However, thundershowers and gusty […]
Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu surrendered before a court here on Friday, a day after being sentenced to one-year rigorous imprisonment by the Supreme Court in a 1988 road rage death case.”He surrendered before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Amit Malhan,” said senior advocate HPS Verma, who accompanied Sidhu to the court. The former […]
Passengers of SpiceJet flights on Friday took to social media to complain how their flights at Delhi airport were delayed, while the airline clarified that there was a delay in their daily payment to the Airports Authority of India. The glitch was fixed and the operation became normal, a SpiceJet spokesperson confirmed to news agency […]
Gujarat legislator Jignesh Mevani on Friday hit out at former Congress leader Hardik Patel for his ungraceful exit from the party, criticising him for bad-mouthing the Congress and its leaders. Mevani, who has been supporting the Congress, is expected to officially join the party before the 2022 Gujarat assembly elections. Patel, 28 years, quit the […]
A Supreme Court-appointed Justice Sirpurkar commission on Friday said the police encounter of the accused in the 2019 sensational gang rape and murder of a woman in Hyderabad was a fake one. The three-member panel, led by an ex-judge of the top court, said three of the four rape and murder accused, killed in the […]
Soon after searches linked to Lalu Prasad Yadav were launched by the CBI across at least 16 locations on Friday, his party colleague slammed the central probe agency over the action. “This is an attempt to muzzle a strong voice. CBI’s direction and actions are completely biased,” RJD leader Alok Mehta was quoted as saying […]