Tag: New Delhi

Shillong: Odisha firefighters on Thursday resumed dewatering a shaft near the main shaft of a coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district where 15 miners have been trapped since December 13. But the fate of the miners remains unknown. “Odisha firefighters resumed pumping out water at 10 a.m. from the shaft which they dewatered […]

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday said it has registered a case against five Army officials, including a Colonel, for allegedly receiving bribes worth Rs 18 lakh. In its FIR, the investigating agency has named Colonel Raman Dahda, Lieutenant Colonel Mahendra Kumar, Subedar Devender Kumar, Subedar Sahuran Sahu, Havildar Abhay Singh […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear on Thursday a plea seeking the deployment of adequate manpower and equipment for the rescue of miners trapped in a flooded mine in Meghalaya. A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjay Krishan Kaul agreed to hear the matter. The petition by lawyer Aditya N. Prasad […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ruling BJP face a tough challenge in the Lok Sabha elections in the coming summer in the wake of its defeat in the recent Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh and mounting worries on the economic front. Even at the end of 2017, no one […]

New Delhi: The second batch of Supplementary Demands for Grants for 2018-19 for gross additional expenditure of Rs 85,948.86 crore, which includes Rs 41,000 crore for recap of the Public Sector Banks (PSBs), was passed by voice vote in the Lok Sabha on Monday amid din. The supplementary demand was tabled by Finance Minister Arun […]

New Delhi: The government has appointed P.V. Bharathi as the Managing Director and Chief Executive of the Corporation Bank. According to the Department of Personnel and Training, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) approved the appointment following a proposal from the Department of Financial Services, under the Union Ministry of Finance. “The ACC has […]

New Delhi: The Indian government has asked Apple to provide information for 27 devices and 18 accounts in the January-June 2018 period, with the company providing data in most of the cases owing to an iTunes Gift Card fraud investigation. The number of government requests — in various formats such as subpoenas, court orders, warrants […]

Lucknow:The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government on Wednesday presented a Rs 8,054.49-crore second supplementary budget in the state Assembly, of which Rs 3,000 crore has been earmarked for the “Swachh Bharat” project. Besides, the Yogi Adityanath government has set aside Rs 100 crore for the forthcoming Kumbh Mela, which will take place in Allahabad in […]

New Delhi: On the occasion of Vijay Diwas, President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday remembered soldiers of the Indian Armed Forces who lost their lives during the 1971 India-Pakistan War. “On Vijay Diwas, we remember with gratitude our Armed Forces who defended our nation and upheld universal values of human […]

New Delhi: Hectic parleys were on at Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s residence on Thursday to choose the chief ministers of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan where the party dislodged the BJP from power in the Assembly elections. UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and her daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were also present during the consultations when party leader […]

New Delhi: The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day on Wednesday without transacting much business amid unrelenting protests both by the opposition and NDA’s ally Shiv Sena. While the opposition rallied over the Rafale fighter jet deal, BJP ally Shiv Sena demanded early construction of a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya. The House witnessed […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday extended till December 31 the deadline for filing claims and objection by around 40 lakh people who were left out of Assam’s draft National Register of Citizens (NRC). A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman said that issuance of notice to those who […]

New Delhi: The Central government on Tuesday said that Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) is probing the incident in which a Jaipur-Kolkata IndiGo flight had to make an emergency landing at Kolkata due to smoke inside the cabin and cockpit area. According to a senior official from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), a […]

New Delhi: Downplaying Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Urjit Patel’s resignation, Niti Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar on Tuesday said the central bank is a professional institution and is not dependent on one individual. “RBI is such a professional institution, a long standing institution that the business will continue. It’s not as if it is […]

New Delhi: RLSP leader Upendra Kushwaha on Monday quit the BJP-led NDA and the Modi government, charging Prime Minister Narendra Modi with betraying Bihar and with pursuing an “opaque style of functioning and non-democratic leadership style”. Kushwaha, who is the second BJP ally to quit the Modi government after the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), said […]