The southwest monsoon picked up momentum in Mumbai, bringing heavy showers that claimed three lives in the city and adjoining Thane, officials said on Monday. Heavy rain lashed the metropolis and Thane district throughout the night and continued on Monday morning, causing water-logging at several places and slowing the movement of suburban trains, thus causing […]
Mumbai If you are residing in Mumbai or planning to travel to the Maharashtra capital, avoid using banned plastic items. If you are found carrying banned plastic items, you will be slapped with a minimum fine of Rs 5000 to maximum of Rs 25,000 from June 24, according to senior civic official. This came after […]
Bhopal A day before Prime Minister Narendra Modi is slated to inaugurate the Rs 3,800 crore Mohanpura dam project in Rajgarh district of Madhya Pradesh, some RTI activists together with the Congress have alleged corruption to the tune of several hundred crore rupees in the mega project. Activists led by the head of the Congress’s […]
New Delhi/Washington The Indian mission in the US has established contact with two immigration detention centres where nearly 100 Indians, mostly from Punjab, are detained for illegally entering the country through its southern border. According to officials, around 40-45 Indians are at a federal detention centre in the Southern American State of New Mexico while […]
NEW DELHI: “From Dehradun to Dublin, from Shanghai to Chicago, from Jakarta to Johannesburg, yoga is everywhere,” declared Prime Minister Narendra Modi today on the occasion of the 4th International Yoga Day. Even as the PM spoke, people were celebrating the day with mass yoga performances everywhere, from beaches to mountain tops – even at […]
Lucknow Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said that the Centre wants terrorism to end and peace to prevail in Kashmir. “Our only aim is that terrorism should end and peace should prevail in Kashmir and our government will work keeping this in mind,” he told reporters here. He was responding to a question about BJP pulling out […]
New Delhi Arvind Subramanian has stepped down as the Chief Economic Adviser on account of “pressing family commitments”. Union Minister Arun Jaitley announced the news on Facebook. “Few days ago Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian met me over video conferencing. He informed me that he would like to go back to the United States on […]
New Delhi Plastic has become one of the major challenges for every country across world. Every country is trying different method to tackle this abruptly growing anti-environment plastic. Similarly, Indian Railways has taken an initiative by installing plastic bottle crushers at railway stations. It has started from Vadodra Railway Station. By dropping each bottle into […]
SRINAGAR: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has pulled out of the alliance with People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday. Mehbooba Mufti and her team of ministers have sent in their resignations to the governor. The state is heading for a President’s rule. Confirming the development at a press conference, BJP leader […]
New Delhi As International Yoga Day approaches, yoga guru Baba Ramdev conducted a yoga session with nearly 11,000 inmates of the Tihar Jail today and also promised jobs to some of them,a jail official said. The inmates from nine jails had gathered in jail number 1 and Ramdev made them do yoga. He advised them […]