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Punjab Cong in-charge Rawat’s meeting with CM triggers speculation
The Congress’s Punjab In-Charge, Harish Rawat, was today flown into Chandigarh in a state government chopper to meet Chief Minister Amarinder Singh even as the rebellion in party’s unit there continued to simmer. The senior leader arrival came hours after indications that cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu may be given...
SC asks UP to reconsider Kanwar Yatra
New Delhi: States must not allow the movement of devotees undertaking the ‘Kanwar yatra’ due to the pandemic situation, the Centre told the Supreme Court today during a hearing on the matter. Instead, states should develop a system to make the holy water from Ganga available to the devotees through tankers,...
NITI Aayog CEO justifies high fuel prices
Investing huge sums into top quality infrastructure will lead to a high trajectory of growth, but it is a difficult choice to make if resources are scarce, the Chief Executive of the government think tank NITI Aayog, Amitabh Kant, told NDTV. The government has been battling criticism over...
Rahul among those hailing Supreme Court on sedition law
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and leaders of other opposition parties have commended the Supreme Court terming India’s sedition law as “colonial”. A Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana, while agreeing to look into petitions by the Editors Guild of India and a Major General (retired) challenging...
10 of 30 people falling into MP well remain to be rescued
Vidhisha, Madhya Pradesh: In a major mishap, around 30 people fell into a well in Madhya Pradesh’s Vidisha district on Thursday, police said. The incident happened when the villagers were trying to rescue a boy who had fallen in the well earlier. As per the officials, the roof of...
Jaishankar meets Chinese counterpart on LAC standoff
India and China have agreed that solving the border row should be prioritised as “a prolongation of the existing situation was not in the interest of either side”, the government said today in a statement after a meeting between Foreign Minister S Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang...
DMK’s Dayanidhi Maran flown to Chennai by BJP’s pilot Rudy
DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran in a tweet thread narrated how he ran into his parliamentary colleague and BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy – and why he thought it was an interesting meet. The DMK leader titled the thread “A Flight to Remember.” Mr Maran had boarded an IndiGo flight...
Rahul walks out of defence panel meet over China
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and some of his parliamentary colleagues walked out of a Defence Committee meeting after they were not allowed to discuss border issues with China, sources have said. The meeting was scheduled at 3 pm today, they said. A request by Mr Gandhi and the Congress...
2 Indian-Americans in Joe Biden’s 11 key nominations
Washington: President Joe Biden on Tuesday (local time) announced his intent to nominate 11 individuals including two Indian-Americans to serve in key roles. As per the White House statement, the nominated persons are – Gabe Camarillo, Alan Estevez, Jeff Lane Flake, Kent Doyle Logsdon, Lisa Wang, Chester John Culver,...
Adani Airport Holdings takes over Mumbai airport
Billionaire Gautam Adani-led Adani Airport Holdings took over the management control of the Mumbai International Airport from the GVK group to become the country’s largest airport infrastructure company. With the current take over, Adani Airport Holdings Limited – a wholly-owned subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Adani Enterprises Limited, now...
Uttarakhand cancels Kanwar Yatra
Uttarakhand has cancelled this year’s Kanwar Yatra due to the Covid pandemic, news agency ANI reported today. The decision by Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami’s government came amid concerns raised over the risk posed by such events in triggering a possible third wave of the pandemic. The Yatra had...
EU consumer group lodges complaint against WhatsApp
The European Consumer Organisation announced Monday it had lodged a complaint with the European Commission against Facebook’s attempt to modify the terms of service for the WhatsApp messenging service. The US tech titan has sought to nudge users of its messenger platform to accept new terms of service, but...
Retail inflation at 6.26% in June
India’s retail inflation tapered down slightly to 6.26 per cent in the month of June 2021, compared to the month-ago period, when it was at 6.30 per cent in May 2021. However it was still over and above the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) threshold of 6 per cent,...
Delhi runs out of Covishield, vaccine centres to remain closed
Several government-run vaccination centres in Delhi will be closed on Tuesday because the city has exhausted its Covishield COVID-19 vaccine stock, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Monday. Only 36,310 vaccine doses could be administered in Delhi till 10 pm on Monday as opposed to around 1.5 lakh...
IMA warns third wave imminent, says tourism, pilgrimage can wait
India’s top doctors’ body, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) today appealed to the Central and state governments to not let the guard down on the Covid front warning that a third wave was just around the corner. It expressed pain over complacency shown by authorities and the public in...
Rajinikanth confirms ‘no politics’ decision, dissolves party
Months after opting out of politics citing health worries, superstar Rajinikanth today stressed that he did not plan to change his mind and dissolved his outfit Rajini Makkal Mandram, effectively closing that chapter. “I have no plans of entering politics in future,” said Rajinikanth, 70, after meeting with...
Assam ‘encounter spree’: 20 shootings in 40 days
A Delhi-based advocate’s complaint has landed the Assam Police on the National Human Rights Commission’s (NHRC) radar over what he said was an “encounter spree” that began after Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s government took charge two months ago. Since June 1, more than 20 instances of encounters either...
Staff evacuated from India’s Kandahar consulate
Around 50 diplomats, and other staff members at the Kandahar consulate in Afghanistan have been evacuated by India in view of the Taliban fighters rapidly seizing control of a number of key areas in the region triggering security concerns, say sources. On Tuesday, the Indian embassy in Kabul said...
