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The statement said Akasa Air plans to offer flights across India starting in the summer of 2022 with an "endeavour to be the nation's most dependable, affordable and greenest airline".

The operation was launched in a village close to DKG in Surankote in the early hours following intelligence inputs about the presence of terrorists there, he said.

Hyderabad: The Indian Institute of Technology Madras in association with the US Consulate General, Chennai, will host a virtual workshop titled ‘Destination South India’ to help build the capacity of South Indian Educational Institutions to host US students. The workshop will be from November 15 to 18 and will be hosted jointly with the United […]

Srinagar: The higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh witnessed the season’s first snowfall on Monday as the minimum temperatures dropped all across the two union territories. The Met Office said that snowfall was reported in Zojila Pass, Gulmarg ski resort and other higher reaches. “Minimum temperatures dropped all across Jammu and Kashmir and […]

Hyderabad: In order to clear extra rush during festival season, the South Central Railway (SCR) has announced six festival special trains. Accordingly, TATA – Kacheguda festival special train will leave on Fridays at 5.15 am and arrive on Saturdays at 11 am. The train will be operated on October 15, 22 and 29. Similarly, the […]

New Delhi: Nineteen months after the Covid-19 pandemic forced school closures worldwide, only half of the schools across the globe have resumed classroom teaching and learning while around 34 per cent schools are relying on mixed or hybrid instruction mode, according to the Covid-19 Global Education Recovery Tracker. The tracker has been jointly created by […]

Kolkata: In a leg-up to the Covid-battered tourism industry in West Bengal, bookings for the Durga Puja festive season have surged beyond expectations, tour operators said. According to industry sources, bookings for trips during Durga Puja are in full swing amid fears of a possible third wave of the pandemic. “Many people are mixing travel […]

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh’s first tribal museum, known as ‘Tharu Janjati Museum, will come up at Imilia Koder village, a Tharu populated area in Balrampur district. The state will get this museum by March 2022 and it would largely concentrate on displaying the rich and diverse culture of the rare Tharu tribe, said officials. AK Singh, […]

Downloads reached 143 million installs, up 14 per cent versus H1 2020 on Google Play and Apple's App Store respectively, reports Sensor Tower.

India reported 214 COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours. The death toll in the country now stands at 4,50,589.

The Puducherry State Election Commission has announced revised dates to conduct elections on November 2, 7 and 13.

The senior leader also wanted the Government of India to withdraw the consent granted to Spent Fuels of plants 1 to 4 of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP).

The ball is currently in the court of the Finance Ministry and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). A cryptocurrency bill is expected in the winter session and till the whole picture is cleared, investing in cryptocurrencies can be a dangerous move, warn legal experts.

Chaos prevailed in the village in the late hours of Friday night when a majority of villagers complained of stomach ache, followed by vomiting.

Sources said the sleuths of NIA assisted by the CRPF carried out raids in Srinagar, Anantnag and Baramulla districts in connection with two cases being investigated by the agency.

Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said the national capital could face a power crisis and that his government is taking adequate steps to avoid such a situation. He said he has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his intervention in making adequate arrangements of coal and gas to generation plants supplying […]

In the meeting, the two prime ministers are also expected to review the progress in implementation of the 'Green Strategic Partnership' established last year.

The deceased was identified as Akanksha Mishra who was preparing for UPSC, she stated.

The UP police had pasted a summon letter outside his residence, asking him to appear before the police inquiry related to the Lakhimpur Kheri case in which eight people were killed.

The phone calls are being tracked to Mudibidre, Mudipu regions in Dakshina Kannada, in dense forest regions of Uttara Kannada and another two locations from Chikkamagaluru district in the state.

In Delhi, the petrol price was hiked by 30 paise per litre, taking it to Rs 104.23.

The recovery rate is currently at 97.98 per cent, the highest since the beginning of the pandemic.

The transaction will be completed by December 2021, informed Department of Investment and Public Asset Management secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey.

Hyderabad: Haugen, a former Facebook data scientist and company’s whistleblower, recently told the US Congress and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that the global social media giant “promotes global division and ethnic violence”, including in India. According to the complaint filed before the US securities regulator, pages associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) […]