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New Delhi: Low cost carrier SpiceJet is said to be in active discussion with a Middle Eastern carrier for a possible stake sale. SpiceJet promoter Ajay Singh holds a stake of around 60 per cent in the budget carrier. Sources said a big Middle Eastern airline has expressed interest to pick a 24 per cent stake […]

Kolkata: As one reaches Uyari village of Khandaghosh community block under West Bengal’s Purba Bardhaman district, he is bound to be gripped by the essence of India’s freedom movement associated with this remote village. The point of attraction is not any well-maintained museum, nor any flashy memorial. Rather the nostalgia is associated with a dilapidated […]

Lucknow: The Lucknow administration has completely banned vending carts selling ice creams and fast food outside schools. This has been done to prevent traffic jams and the order is being enforced from Wednesday itself. Following a discussion between the nodal officers of various schools and city traffic police and district administration issued guidelines to avoid […]

New Delhi: The Government is scheduled to introduce The Energy Conservation (Amendment) Bill, 2022 in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. While Power Minister R.K. Singh will move the bill on energy conservation, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan will table a Bill to amend the Central Universities Act, 2009 . Amid the growing energy needs and changing global […]

Bengaluru: Karnataka Police have arrested a gang of three miscreants on charges of robbing a software professional posing themselves as gays in Bengaluru, police said on Wednesday. According to police, the accused persons used a gay dating app to trap the victim techie. The arrested robbers have been identified as Sameer Pasha, Mohammad Ismail and Salman […]

Visakhapatnam: About 100 women workers of an apparels firm fell ill after a gas leakage from an adjacent chemical company in Andhra Pradesh’s Anakapalle district on Tuesday, officials said. The gas leak affected staff of Seeds Apparel India in the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Atchutapuram area. The women complained of vomiting, nausea, and breathlessness. […]

Hyderabad: The Central government’s discrimination against Telangana is a glaring issue even in permitting additional days of work for drought and natural calamity-affected States under MGNREGS in the last five years. Telangana recorded extremely heavy rainfall in 2020 and 2021, and many mandals are vulnerable to heat waves. In 2019, the Panchayatraj and Rural Development […]

Hyderabad: In its efforts to improve the regulation of medical education, especially prevent the practice of some medical colleges producing fake faculty and patients during inspections, the National Medical Commission (NMC) on Tuesday has directed all private and government medical colleges to mandatorily implement biometric attendance systems, install CCTV cameras in class rooms and other […]

New Delhi: Soon after the arrest of Sanjay Raut, former Maharashtra chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray quoted dialogue of ‘Pushpa’ movie – “jhukega nahi”,Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment of India Ramdas Athawale gave befitting reply saying that Sanjay Raut is now being probed by ED in Patra Chawl scam case and he will have […]

Panaji: Better late than never. Finally BJP has adopted Tiranga over ‘Bhagva’, Amit Patkar, Congress Chief in Goa on Tuesday said reacting to BJP’s call to ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’. “It is a great feeling to see that BJP has finally realised the importance of Tiranga over Bhagva. Better late than never,” Patkar said. “I want […]

Hyderabad: The Indian Institute of Management -Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has invited applications for the fourth batch of its e-Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Business Analytics (e-PGD ABA), a 16-month programme in applied analytics for working professionals. The objective of the programme is to help candidates learn and internalize strong conceptual foundations of applied analytics through rigorous […]

Hyderabad: People from all age groups are now enjoying the convenience of digital banking, but it comes at a huge risk. To caution people against the different kinds of cyber frauds, Bank of Baroda (BoB), the fourth largest nationalised bank in India, has started a creative campaign on social media called Cyber Jagrookta Diwas campaign. […]

Hyderabad: Here is India’s schedule for today at Common Wealth Games 2022: August 2 Find the full list of Athletes taking part today: Swimming Men’s 200m backstroke – Heat 2: Srihari Natraj: 3.04 pm 1500m freestyle – Heat 1 – Advait Page 4.10 pm 1500m freestyle – Heat 2 – Kushagra Rawat 4.28 pm Artistic […]

Hyderabad: Aerospace player Airbus has signed a contract with the aviation infrastructure developer GMR Group to provide aircraft maintenance training to young aviation engineers. GMR will provide the fully integrated Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (AME) licensing programme at the GMR School of Aviation in Hyderabad. The four-year course will include two years of classroom training and […]

Lucknow: The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday dismissed 841 government lawyers with immediate effect. The services of all public prosecutors appointed in the Allahabad High Court have been terminated. Nikunj Mittal, Special Secretary, Law and Justice Department, issued this order. According to this order, 505 State Law Officers from the Principal Bench […]

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala has registered its fifth monkeypox case, State Health Minister Veena George said here on Tuesday. “A 30-year-old man presently under treatment in Malappuram has tested positive for the virus. He arrived from the UAE on July 27 to the Kozhikode airport. His contacts which included his parents and two of his friends have […]

Muzaffarnagar: A police officer has been suspended in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar for allegedly subjecting third-degree torture to a man who happened to be a distant relative of an accused. According to reports, R. Rana, the Sub-Inspector (SI) of Chhapar police station in Muzaffarnagar, went to Khampur village with a team to arrest an accused named […]

Ahmedabad: A lookout notice has been issued against Ahmedabad-based AMOS Company’s director Samir Patel by the Bureau of Immigration in the Botad-Ahmedabad hooch tragedy in which 46 people died. The notice was issued at the Gujarat government’s request. Patel was summoned by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigating the hooch tragedy. The state government-appointed SIT […]

New Delhi: Delhi’s first patient of monkeypox has been discharged from the LNJP hospital after recovering from the infection. The patient was discharged on Monday night after showing the sign of recovery. Talking to IANS, Dr Suresh Kumar, MD, LNJP Hospital said, “We have discharged the patient which was the first case of monkeypox in […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday hailed the achievement of Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions crossing 6 billion in July — the highest ever since its launch six years back. According to data released by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), UPI reported 6.28 billion transactions worth Rs 10.62 trillion in July […]

New Delhi: Google removed 1,11,493 pieces of bad content based on user complaints in June this year in compliance with the new India IT Rules, 2021. Most of the content it removed were related to copyright violations, while other categories included trademark, court order, graphic sexual content, circumvention, and others. The tech giant received 32,717 […]

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday conducted raids at the office of Congress mouthpiece National Herald newspaper in connection with a money laundering case involving party leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. Recently, the ED had questioned Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi for several days. This morning, a team of probe officials reached […]

Thiruvananthapuram: As many as 10 people have lost their lives and few others are reported missing as incessant rain continue to batter Kerala from Sunday. On Tuesday morning, the body of a two-and-a-half-year-old child was found around 200 metres away from the house in Kannur, where three more deaths have been reported. The State Disaster […]

Birmingham: India’s Harjinder Kaur claimed the bronze medal in the women’s 71kg weightlifting competition after a dramatic climax at the Commonwealth Games here on Monday. Luck was on Harjinder’s side as she was assured of a podium finish after Nigeria’s gold medal favourite Joy Eze was knocked out following three failed attempts in the clean […]