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TN minister challenges Nirmala Sitharaman on fuel tax cuts
Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Palanivel Thiagarajan pulled no punches as he took on Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday for “exhorting” states to cut their share of taxes on petrol and diesel, saying his state did not need “dictation from people who perform worse than us”. “We have...
Crucial parleys ahead of Rajya Sabha, presidential polls
Top BJP leaders, including Amit Shah and JP Nadda, held a four-hour meeting on the Rajya Sabha election and the presidential election just two months away. With the BJP-led alliance and the opposition both set to put up their own candidates for India’s new President, this election is said...
Air India asks staff to vacate govt housing colonies
Tata Group-owned Air India has asked its staff to vacate the government-owned housing colonies by July 26, according to an official document. The Tata Group won the bid for Air India on October 8 last year. However, as per the terms of disinvestment, the airline’s non-core assets such as...
Heavy rain, thunderstorm disrupt flights at Delhi airport
Heavy rain, along with thunderstorm, hit Delhi again on Monday evening after the first bout early this morning. The late evening showers have delayed several flights, while many have been diverted forcing airlines to issue updates. “The skies have decided to drench #Delhi. Our flight operations might get impacted....
Vinai Kumar Saxena to replace Baijal as Delhi Lt Guv
Delhi got its new Lieutenant Governor in Vinai Kumar Saxena on Monday, just days after his predecessor Anil Baijal resigned citing “personal reasons”. Till recently, Saxena was the Chairman of Khadi & Village Industries Commission. “The President of India has been pleased to appoint Shri Vinai Kumar Saxena to...
Saudi Arabia bans travel to India, other countries over covid
Jeddah: Following the re-outbreak of Covid-19 and the rapid surge in the number of daily Covid infections over the past few weeks, Saudi Arabia has banned its citizens from traveling to sixteen countries, including India. The sixteen countries where the citizens of Saudi Arabia are banned to travel apart...
Assam academic held for criticising govt policies
An associate professor of a college in Assam’s Hailakandi district, who was arrested for allegedly sending emails to officials criticising government policies and using unparliamentarily words against the chief minister, has been granted bail by a local court, a senior police officer said on Sunday. A suo moto case...
KCR’s immediate agenda presidential poll; Cong left out
Even as Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao is on a national political tour to meet like-minded parties and leaders ahead of the 2024 national elections, his immediate sights are set on the presidential polls in July. He would like the opposition parties to field a joint candidate. KCR,...
No decision for excavation at Qutub Minar, minister
No such decision has been taken, Union Culture Minister GK Reddy said today while dismissing several media reports that excavation can be done in Delhi’s iconic Qutub Minar complex. Sources had earlier said that the Ministry of Culture had issued instructions to get iconography of idols done at the...
Jet Airways to start flying again after 3 years
Jet Airways has been granted the licence to resume commercial flights by the aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). The airline was granted the air operator certificate (AOC) after completing two proving flights. A total of five landings (five flights) have to be done by the aircraft...
New CBI cases against Lalu, family followed by raids
Weeks after he was granted bail in a fodder scam case, Lalu Prasad Yadav has been charged in a fresh corruption case over alleged irregularities in recruitment between 2004 and 2009 when he was Railways Minister. Besides Lalu Yadav, his family members have also been named accused in the...
Freed Rajiv Gandhi killer, mother meet MK Stalin
AG Perarivalan — one of the seven convicts in former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination case whose release was ordered by the Supreme Court today — and his mother Arputhammal met Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin in Chennai this evening. Mr Stalin tweeted a video of the meeting....
Protesting Punjab farmers serve ultimatum to Mann govt
Punjab farmers sat on a protest near the Chandigarh-Mohali border on Tuesday after being stopped from heading to the state capital to press the AAP government with various demands, including a bonus on wheat and beginning paddy sowing from June 10. In an ultimatum to the Punjab government, farmer leader...
China jet crash sabotage, suggests Black Box data
Flight data from a black box recovered from the China Eastern Airlines jet that crashed in March indicates someone in the cockpit intentionally crashed the plane, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with US officials’ preliminary assessment. A Western official told Reuters that the focus...
CBI searches Chidambaram’s premises linked to son
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is conducting searches at multiple residential and official premises of senior Congress leader P Chidambaram across Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Sivagangai in Tamil Nadu, sources said today. The searches are reportedly being conducted at around seven premises of the former Union Minister across these cities,...
Mehbooba says ‘The Kashmir Files’ behind violence
Days after the killing of Kashmiri pandit government employee Rahul Bhat, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti on Monday blamed the Vivek Agnihotri directorial ‘The Kashmir Files’ for ‘triggering’ violence in the union territory, while also claiming that she created a safe environment for Kashmiri Pandits during...
SC pulls up bank for forcing arbitrary settlement on farmers
The Supreme Court has pulled up the Bank of Maharashtra for challenging an order of the Madhya Pradesh High Court directing it to accept the One Time Settlement (OTS) proposal of farmers and issue them sanction letters, saying the bank does not go after big fish but is only...
Delhiites told to stay home as temperature hits 49 degrees
An intense heatwave scorched parts of north India on Sunday with places in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh recording 49 degrees Celsius and above while the weather office has warned of heavy rainfall across Kerala and sounded a red alert for five districts. In Delhi, the Safdarjung observatory recorded 45.6...
