Kolkata, 8/2: A 24-year-old woman has been arrested for smoking in the lavatory of a Bengaluru-bound flight. Priyanka Chakraborty, of Sealdah district, West Bengal, was caught smoking inside the lavatory of IndiGo flight number 6E 716 late on Sunday night. The plane took off from Kolkata at 9.50 pm and landed in Bengaluru more…
Mumbai, 8/3: Sensex on Wednesday declined 297.55 points to 59,926.91 points in the early trade, while Nifty fell 103.95 points to 17,607.60 points. Meanwhile, rupee fell 37 paise to 82.29 against US dollar in early trade. More details are awaited.
New Delhi, 7/3: President Droupadi Murmu has accepted the resignations of Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and minister Satyendra Jain, both currently in Tihar jail in alleged corruption and money laundering cases respectively. The president also appointed Aam Aadmi Party MLAs Saurabh Bharadwaj and Atishi Marlena as ministers in the Delhi government…
New Delhi, 7/3: The CBI on Tuesday questioned former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia’s personal assistant Devender Sharma in connection with alleged corruption in formulating and implementing of the now-scrapped excise policy for 2021-22, officials said. Sharma alias Rinku was summoned to the CBI headquarters where he was questioned by officials of…
Bhubaneswar, 7/3: Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik has expressed deep condolences at the passing away of eminent Odia Scientist Padmashree Professor Prafulla Kumar Jena. In his message, the Chief Minister said that Dr Jena was a genius scientist who encouraged, inspired scientific research, especially in metallurgy. With his sustained research, he has pioneered new…
Nagaland, 7/3: New cabinets headed by Neiphiu Rio and Conrad K Sangma will take oath in Nagaland and Meghalaya, respectively on Tuesday. In Meghalaya, 12 member cabinet headed by Sangma was sworn in in a ceremony that began around 11 am. Conrad Sangma took oath as the chief minister for a second straight…
Denmark, 6/3: NATO-member Denmark’s Defence Ministry on Monday banned its employees from having video-sharing app TikTok on their work phones as a cybersecurity measure. It’s the latest government-related ban over security and data privacy for the app, which is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd. In a statement, the ministry said the Scandinavian…
Tripura, ,6/3: Manik Saha was named as the next Chief Minister of the northeastern State of Tripura at a meeting of the BJP legislative party held here on Monday. A spokesperson of the BJP informed reporters after the meeting that the selection was unanimously endorsed by all MLAs of the party. Earlier, there…
New Delhi, 6/3: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said skilling the youth holds the key to India becoming the third-largest economy in the world from the fifth now. Virtually addressing a “Rozgar Mela”, or employment fair, organised by the Gujarat government at the Mahatma Mandir convention centre in Gandhinagar, Modi said nearly…
Arab, 6/3: Saudi Arabia said Monday it was depositing $5 billion in Turkey’s central bank, a potentially major boost as the country grapples with inflation and damage from last month’s earthquake ahead of presidential elections. Ahmed Al Khateeb, the Saudi tourism minister and board chairman of the Saudi Fund for Development, signed an…
