Mumbai, 24/9: Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis pushed away a man pleading for the state government’s assistance in dealing with the aftermath of the Nagpur floods on Sunday. Shiv Sena UBT leader Priyanka Chaturvedi posted a video of the incident on X, writing, “Arrogance of power makes one blind to people’s hardships. Look how unconstitutional…
New Delhi, 24/9: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that it is still a world of “double standards” and those countries which are occupying positions of influence are resisting the pressure to change and those with historical influence have weaponised a lot of those capabilities. Jaishankar was speaking at a Ministerial Session titled ‘South…
Chillika, 24/9: The Passing Out Parade (POP) of the second batch of Agniveers is scheduled at INS Chilka on 26 Sep 23. The POP marks the successful completion of training of close to 2200 Agniveers including 452 women Agniveers undergoing training at Chilka. VAdm MA Hampiholi PVSM, AVSM, NM, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Southern Naval Command…
Beijing, 24/9: China denying visas to three Indian athletes from Arunachal Pradesh is ‘discriminatory’ and against the Olympic Charter which is not acceptable to India, Union Minister Anurag Thakur has said. The northeastern state is an integral part of India and would continue to remain so, the Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting and Youth…
New Delhi, 24/9: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off nine Vande Bharat trains on September 24, via video conferencing from Delhi. Routes of the nine Vande Bharat are as follows : Hyderabad ( Kachiguda)- Bengaluru ( Yeswanthpur), Chennai-Tirunelveli, Vijayawada-Chennai, Patna-Howrah, Rourkela-Puri, Kasaragod-Alappuzha-Thiruvananthapuram, Jaipur-Udaipur, Ranchi-Tatanagar-Kolkata .
Shimla, 23/9: Superstar Aamir Khan has donated Rs 25 lakh towards the Aapada Rahat Kosh to provide succor to the rain-affected families in Himachal Pradesh, the state government said in a statement on Saturday. Expressing his gratitude to the Hindi film actor, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said that the assistance will ‘undoubtedly support the…
Mumbai, 23/9: India is likely to delay a plan to require licenses for imported laptops, tablets and personal computers by a year, two government officials said, in a breather to companies such as Apple, Samsung and Lenovo. The licensing regime, announced abruptly on Aug. 3, aims to “ensure trusted hardware and systems” enter India, reduce…
Mumbai, 23/9: NCP working president Supriya Sule said on Saturday that she has never spoken anything against her politically estranged cousin Ajit Pawar. Sule, who represents the Baramati Lok Sabha constituency, was in Pune to visit Ganesh idols on the occasion of the ongoing Ganeshotsav. The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) suffered a jolt in July…
Andhra, 23/9: A team of Andhra Pradesh Police CID officials on Saturday began interrogation of TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu in the Skill Development Corporation scam case on Saturday at the central prison here. On Friday, the ACB Court in Vijayawada granted two days police custody of the 73-year old Naidu to the CID for…
New Delhi, 23/9: Four opposition leaders from Congress, NCP, TMC and DMK on Friday wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla over BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri’s use of abusive language against BSP member Danish Ali in the House and demanded that the matter be sent to the privilege committee. In separate letters to the speaker,…
