Mumbai, 24/5: Oyo Hotels, the once high-flying Indian startup, is shelving plans for an initial public offering in 2022 after a market downturn that would hurt its valuation, according to people familiar with the matter. The board of Oyo, formally known as Oravel Stays Ltd., talked through a change in the offering’s timing during…
New Delhi,24/5:India is considering cutting an import levy on soybean and sunflower oils, another step in a series of measures the country has taken to cool surging local prices of food. The government is deliberating whether to reduce the agriculture infrastructure and development cess, which is currently 5 per cent, or abolish it, according…
Bhubaneswar, 24/5: Odisha Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik today launched Olympic Values Education Programme in 90 schools of Odisha on virtual mode. It has been started as a pilot project in schools of Rourkela and Bhubaneswar. It will be expanded to other schools in coming days. Speaking on the occasion, Chief Minister Shri Patnaik…
Chandigarh, 24/5:Punjab Health Minister Vijay Singla was sacked from the state Cabinet on Tuesday and arrested on corruption charges with Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann asserting that his government has zero-tolerance towards corruption. The Aam Aadmi Party has been in power in Punjab for barely two months. The chief minister himself announced the removal…
Varanasi, 24/5:The Varanasi district court, hearing a bunch of petitions regarding the Gyanvapi Mosque, is likely to pronounce its verdict on the maintainability of the petitions by the Hindu petitioners claiming that the entire premises belonged to the Kashi Vishwanath and that the Gyanvapi Mosque was only a part of the Temple on Tuesday. …
Udaipur, 24/5:Taking forward the decisions of the Udaipur Chintan Shivir, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday named party leaders for the Political Affairs Group, Task Force 2024 to plan for Lok Sabha polls and a planning group for Bharat Jodo Yatra starting October 2. Eight leaders each have been named in the three…
Hyderabad, 24/5:Ahead of the state Assembly polls, All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Asaduddin Owaisi seems to be trying to make inroads in Gujarat via Surat’s two Assembly constituencies – Limbayat and Surat-East, which comprises 35 to 40 per cent Muslim voters. Owaisi has received a good response in Limbayat, however a small…
Tokyo, 24/5: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US President Joe Biden, Australian PM Anthony Albanese and Japanese PM Fumio Kishida held the second in-person Quad Leaders’ Summit in Tokyo on Tuesday. Speaking at the summit, Prime Minister Modi said the Quad has gained a significant place on the world stage in a short span…
New Delhi, 23/5:Vinai Kumar Saxena has been appointed as the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi with effect from the date he assumes charge of his office, said a statement of Press Secretary to the President.
Jaipur, 23/5:Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s clarification that the entire cost of the reduction in excise duty on petrol and diesel will be borne by the Central government and the state’s revenue won’t be impacted by the move has triggered a political controversy in Rajasthan. It has nullified the claims of Rajasthan Chief…
