New Delhi, 31/7: Aviation regulator DGCA has renewed the Air Operator Certificate (AOC) of Jet Airways, winning bidder Jalan-Kalrock Consortium said. Jet Airways had stopped flying on April 17, 2019, due to a financial crunch.
Kandhamal, 31/7: A 35-year-old man, accused of raping a girl, was beaten to death allegedly by the victim’s family in Odisha’s Kandhamal district, police said. The incident happened in Raikia police station area, about 75 kilometres from Phulbani, the district headquarters.
Africa, 30/7: West Africa’s regional bloc ECOWAS on Sunday gave Niger coup leaders one week to reinstate ousted President Mohammed Bazoum or face sanctions and the possible use of force. The regional leaders meeting in Nigeria’s capital Abuja said punitive measures against Niger’s new military leaders could include financial and travel sanctions and a…
J&K, 30/7: The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Sunday said it has nabbed from Samba district a key accused in an attack on a police party in April, making it the eighth arrest in the case. Farman Ali alias “DC”, a resident of Rakh Barotian, was allegedly involved in the April 6 attack…
Islamabad, 30/7: At least 35 people were killed and over 150 others injured on Sunday when a suicide bomber triggered a powerful blast at a hardline Islamic political party’s meeting in a restive tribal district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan. The explosion took place at 4 pm at the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) workers’…
New Delhi, 30/7: India’s semiconductor mission is not just about meeting domestic requirements but also aimed at contributing to global demand for trusted manufacturing, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Sunday. In an address at a conference, he told top executives of leading global semiconductor firms that their decisions and relationships have…
Mumbai, 30/7: Tyre maker CEAT Ltd has lined up a capex of around Rs 750 crore for the ongoing fiscal, mostly to be deployed in increasing production capacity of agri-radial tyres at its Ambernath plant in Maharashtra, according to the company MD & CEO Arnab Banerjee. The company expects volume of its supplies…
Sriharikota, 30/7: ISRO has lined up a series of activities over the next few months as it gears up for “exciting” missions including a GSLV launch this year, Chairman S Somanath said here on Sunday. The space agency, in a precise textbook launch today, successfully placed seven Singaporean satellites into intended orbits on…
Thane, 30/7: Nearly 50 passengers travelling in a civic transport bus had a narrow escape after the vehicle caught fire in Maharashtra’s Thane city on Sunday morning, an official said. No one was injured in the incident, Thane Municipal Corporation’s disaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi told PTI. The Thane…
Colombia, 30/7: An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 struck near the northern coast of Colombia on Saturday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was 10 km (6.2 miles) deep, GFZ said
