Tag: New Delhi

New Delhi/Copenhagen: National passenger carrier Air India on Saturday launched its non-stop flight service from New Delhi to Copenhagen. The new service is Air India’s third non-stop flight launched this year. Earlier, the airline had launched its services from New Delhi to Washington and New Delhi to Stockholm. Commenting on the launch of the new […]

New Delhi: New Delhi’s Connaught Place is the world’s tenth most expensive office location with an annual prime rent of $111 per square feet, a survey by a real estate consulting firm said on Friday. The survey by CBRE South Asia said the ranking has fallen by one position, moving down to tenth from ninth […]

New Delhi: A Delhi Metro train covered a good distance a day ago with one of its gates open owing to a “technical fault”, a DMRC official said on Tuesday. The train plying on the Yellow Line between Samaypur Badli and HUDA City Centre suffered the glitch at Chawri Bazar Station on Monday night around 10 […]

Kanyakumari: Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi on Monday launched an 11,000-km march from here to New Delhi against child trafficking and sexual abuse and urged the youth to participate to ensure the safety and security of children The Bharat Yatra, launched from the Vivekananda Rock Memorial here, is slated to conclude on October 16 in New Delhi. […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday termed 2017 a special year and urged to take the country ahead with determination to create a “New India”. “This is a special year. This year we are celebrating 75th anniversary of the Quit India Movement, 100th anniversary of Champaran Satyagraha and 125th anniversary of Ganesh Utsav,” […]

New Delhi:  The Supreme Court on Friday said it would start hearing appeals in Ram Mandir-Babri Masjid case from December 5 and that no adjournments will be allowed A three-member bench of Justice Dipak Misra, Justice Ashok Bhushan and Justice Abdul Naseer asked contesting parties to translate into English, within 12 weeks, the exhibits of […]

New Delhi: Economist Rajiv Kumar has been appointed the Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog in place of Arvind Panagariya, said informed sources. Panagariya, an academician on leave from Columbia University, resigned as the NITI Aayog Vice Chairman on August 1. Kumar, a senior fellow at Centre for Policy Research (CPR), is also chancellor of the […]

  Mumbai: The Shiv Sena on Saturday trained its guns on ally BJP’s New Delhi chief Manoj Tiwari for his recent ‘street-level’ performance in Varanasi and gyrating to “an awful Bhojpuri number”. “It was shocking to see Tiwari voluntarily getting down on his knees, singing and gyrating to the crude song ‘Kamariya Kare Lapalap, Lollilop Laagelu’, […]

New Delhi: A fire broke out at the Shastri Bhawan on Monday due to a short circuit in an air conditioner (AC), an official said here. “The fire broke out on the seventh floor of the building at 9.42 a.m. Five fire tenders rushed to the spot and it was doused,” the fire service official […]

New Delhi: New President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday promised to uphold the values of justice, independence and equality shortly after he was sworn in as 14th President of India, pledging to protect and uphold the Constitution. Addressing members of Parliament and various dignitaries, including Chief Ministers and diplomatic corps, Kovind said unity in diversity is […]

Former minister and MP Harihar Swain died at the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) in New Delhi on Saturday following prolonged illness, family sources said here. Swain, 73, was suffering from multiple ailments for several months. He is survived by his wife, a son, and three daughters.

New Delhi: India has launched its first petroleum Research & Development (R&D) facility for testing high-end BS-VI quality fuel emissions, according to an official here. Operated by state-run Indian Oil Corp (IOC), the R&D facility is designed to test all types of fuel including petrol, diesel, ethanol-blended petrol, bio-diesel, CNG, LNG, hydrogen-CNG and 2G-ethanol blends […]

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday said a patient from Pakistan-administered Kashmir who is seeking treatment in New Delhi for a liver tumour needed no recommendation from the Pakistan government for a medical visa because the territory is “an integral part of India”. Osama Ali, 24, who has been diagnosed with a […]

Beijing: China on Monday said it has not changed its position on India’s membership bid for the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), indicating it will again block New Delhi’s plea at the plenary session in Bern next month. “China’s position on the non-NPT member’s participation in the NSG has not changed,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua […]

Mumbai: Eight teams comprising 96 pugilists will fight in the first ever Super Boxing League (SBL) to be held in New Delhi from July 7 to August 12, it was announced on Monday. The eight teams of the inaugural edition of SBL are Mumbai Assassins, Delhi Gladiators, Haryana Warriors, Sher-E-Punjab, UP Terminators, North East Tigers, […]