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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu will request the Supreme Court to allow him a few weeks’ time to surrender in connection with the 1988 road rage case in which the top court on Thursday sentenced him to a year’s imprisonment. The Congress leader, represented by senior advocate and Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi, said he […]
A part of an under-construction tunnel at Khoni Nallah on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Ramban district collapsed on Thursday night during an audit, injuring four people and trapping several others, officials said. The collapsed portion is about 30 to 40 metres inside the tunnel. A joint rescue operation was launched immediately by police and […]
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday met Union Home Minister Amit Shah at his residence in Delhi and demanded more central forces. The meeting comes ahead of the anniversary of Operation Blue Star in the first week of June amid a rise in pro-Khalistani activities.After his meeting, Bhagwant Mann, while speaking to the media, […]
Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu was sentenced to one-year in prison by the Supreme Court on Thursday in a road rage case from 1988 in which one person was killed. The former Punjab Congress president was earlier let off with a fine of ₹1,000 by the top court. The scope of punishment was enhanced […]
Former Congress leader from Punjab, Sunil Jakhar, on Thursday joined the BJP in Delhi in the presence of party president JP Nadda. Nadda called it a matter of happiness that a leader with such a vast political experience was joining the BJP.Nadda said: “Jakhar managed to establish an identity away from the party,” adding that, […]