NEW DELHI: Nearly a year after the shocking rape and murder of a student at RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata, city witnessed another disturbing case. Speaking on the incident, the RG Kar victim’s father expressed anger over the repeated crimes, blamed the Mamata Banerjee-led state government, and demanded strict punishment for the accused.A female…
Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami (Image credit: ANI) Uttarakhand chief ministerPushkar Singh Dhami has said that a strong mechanism should be made to prevent encroachment on government land. An effective action plan should be developed to prevent encroachment on government land and to halt illegal sales.In a high-level meeting at his residence, the chief minister…
GUWAHATI: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma announced Friday that only deputy commissioners were authorised to clear Aadhaar applications of adults as part of tighter checks to filter illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, marking a departure from the practice elsewhere of UIDAI-run seva kendras processing them.“Tightening of rules for issuance of Aadhaar to adults will make it…
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Following public backlash over a video showing Air India SATS executives partying in their Gurugram office shortly after the June 12 Air India flight 171 crash, Tata Group has taken disciplinary action against several people.Four senior officials were suspended from Air India SATS, while multiple others were issued a warning, the company said…
NEW DELHI: Alleging “blatant misuse” of agencies to defame its leaders, AAP on Thursday questioned why the first information report filed against former Delhi ministers Saurabh Bharadwaj and Satyendar Jain was being kept under wraps and “selective” press notes were being leaked to the media.Bharadwaj, who is Delhi AAP convener, alleged that only two former…
NEW DELHI: Indian Institutes of Technology and IISc are unlikely to break into the list of world’s top 50 universities unless they run full-fledged medical colleges, IIT-Madras director Professor V Kamakoti has said, revealing that the institution is considering setting up a medical college to overcome this gap in its portfolio.In an exclusive interaction with…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi will undertake a five-nation trip starting July 2, visiting Ghana, Trinidad and Tobago and Argentina on his way to Brazil for the Brics summit. He will also visit Namibia on his way back. This will be Modi’s first ever visit to Ghana, Trinidad and Tobago and Namibia.Announcing Modi’s visit to…
NEW DELHI: In a major development, Mumbai-based defence shipyard Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited is poised to acquire a controlling stake in Sri Lanka’s largest shipyard, Colombo Dockyard PLC (CDPLC), in a deal worth almost $53 million.The move marks the first international acquisition by India’s largest shipyard that builds submarines, warships and other vessels, and will…
Indore: Nineteen SUVs, a part of Madhya Pradesh chief minister‘s cavalcade sourced to ferry VIPs from an airstrip to an industrial conclave venue in Ratlam on Friday came to a screeching halt on Thursday night after refilling ‘adulterated fuel’ from a petrol pump in Dosigaon. The Ratlam district administration on learning about the incident immediately…
Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla may be astronaut number 634, but he is far from the only Indian drawing value from the Axiom-4 mission. While Shukla orbits Earth aboard the International Space Station, a contingent of Isro engineers and doctors stationed in Houston is immersed in a parallel mission — one rooted not in weightlessness, but…
