UP, 20/5: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao Saturday met former UP Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav amid attempts by regional parties to explore the possibilities of an alliance of non-BJP parties ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Yadav drove to KCR’s residence in New Delhi for the meeting…
New Delhi, 21/5: In a big relief to the common man, the government on Saturday slashed excise duty on petrol by Rs 8 per litre and on diesel by Rs 6 per litre. This will reduce the price of petrol by Rs 9.5 per litre and of diesel by Rs 7 per litre….
New Delhi, 21/5: Backtracking from his stand in Udaipur, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said his party respects regional outfits and does not want to be “the Big Daddy” while asserting that the fight against the BJP will be a “group effort”. During an interactive session at the ‘Ideas for India’ conference in London,…
Mumbai, 20/5:The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) launched a coordinated search operation at over 10 locations in multiple cities on Saturday in connection with the NSE co-location scam case, officials said. The search operation will cover brokers at more than 12 premises in Mumbai, Gandhinagar, Delhi, Noida, Gurugram and Kolkata, among other cities,…
Kannada, 21/5:Uday Chowta, former member of the Indian kabaddi team and the first kabaddi player from Dakshina Kannada district to receive the Ekalavya award, passed away in the wee hours on Saturday. In a sports career spanning two decades, Uday had played in over 100 national and 300 state level Kabaddi tournaments. Uday,…
Assam, 21/5: The flood situation in Assam continued to remain grim on Friday as waters entered fresh areas affecting a total of 29 districts, though the number of people hit by the deluge decreased marginally to 7,11,905, a government bulletin said. As four more deaths were reported due to the calamity, the toll…
New Delhi, 21/5: Associate professor of Delhi University’s Hindu College Ratan Lal was arrested on Friday night for his objectionable social media post referring to claims about a ‘Shivling’ found inside Varanasi’s Gyanvapi mosque complex, police said. They said Lal was arrested under Indian Penal Code sections 153A (promoting enmity between different groups…
Bangalore, 20/5: The Supreme Court on Friday said the state government cannot run the local corporation and an elected body has to be in place, as it gave eight weeks time to the Karnataka government to complete the exercise for delimitation of wards and determination of OBC reservation in BBMP. A bench of Justices…
Chilika ,20/5:The Orissa High Court on Friday rejected the regular bail plea of Chilika MLA Prashant Jagadev, who is in an interim bail now on health ground. In the judgment, the High Court dismissed the regular bail plea and directed the MLA to surrender to the Banpur JMFC court on the 23rd of this month…
New Delhi,,20/5:Aviation regulator DGCA Friday granted Jet Airways the Air Operator Certificate (AOC), allowing the airline to resume commercial flight operations. Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) chief Arun Kumar told PTI the “AOC” has been “granted” to Jet Airways. In its old avatar, the airline was owned by Naresh Goyal and…
