Canada, 17/1: The number of study permits Canada issued to Indian students fell sharply late last year after India ejected Canadian diplomats who would process the permits and fewer Indian students applied due to a diplomatic dispute over the murder of a Sikh separatists leaders in Canada. Immigration Minister Marc Miller added in an interview…
New Delhi, 17/1: A total of 53 flights scheduled have been cancelled due to fog and operational reasons from and to the Delhi airport, ANI reported on Wednesday citing the Delhi Airport FIDS (Flight Information Display System). These include 21 domestic arrivals, 16 domestic departures, along with 13 international departures and three arrivals that were…
New Delhi, 16/1: `Shilanyas’ for a Ram temple at Ayodhya was conducted when Rajiv Gandhi was the country’s prime minister and the BJP and RSS are doing politics on the issue, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar said on Tuesday. The veteran leader was speaking at a public meeting at Nipani in Karnataka. A…
Kolkata, 16/1: The Directorate of Estates on Tuesday issued a notice to evict former TMC MP Mahua Moitra, who was expelled from the Lok Sabha last month, from her government bungalow, sources in the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry said. The Trinamool Congress leader has been asked to vacate the bungalow immediately, which had…
Mumbai, 16/1: Amidst the bitter war of words and a host of complex legal issues concerning the decision on a bunch of disqualification pleas involving Shiv Sena in Maharashtra, Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday challenged Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Speaker Rahul Narwekar to face public debate allowing them to decide who commands party. The Shiv…
Ahmedabad, 17/1: A metropolitan court here on Tuesday acquitted Congress legislator Jignesh Mevani and 30 others in a 2017 case of obstructing a train as a mark of protest against the state government’s policies. The court of additional chief metropolitan magistrate P N Goswami acquitted Dalit leader Mevani and others after giving them the benefit…
Andhra, 16/1: Andhra Pradesh Congress chief Y S Sharmila on Tuesday said she would work faithfully towards rebuilding the party to its past glory in the state with total commitment and integrity. In a post on social media platform ‘X’, she also thanked AICC leaders Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi for appointing her…
New Delhi, 16/1: Thirty trains from different parts of India to Delhi were delayed on Tuesday due to dense fog conditions. The Delhi-NCR region is again engulfed in dense fog as the nation’s capital and parts of north India battle cold waves in the region.
Washington DC, 116/1: Vivek Ramaswamy, a multi-millionaire former biotech executive, ended his White House bid on Monday and endorsed Donald Trump after his longshot bid caught attention but failed to catapult him high enough in the Republican Party’s first nominating contest in Iowa. Ramaswamy, a 38-year-old born in Ohio to immigrant parents from southern India,…
New Delhi, 15/1: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday had a ‘good conversation’ with Russian President Vladimir Putin as they discussed various positive developments in the two countries’ ‘special and privileged strategic partnership’. In a post on X, Modi said he and Putin also agreed to chalk out a road map for future initiatives. …
