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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...
Fadnavis likens MVA govt to Babri-like structure
Maharashtra Leader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis yesterday compared the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government to a Babri-like structure and said he would not rest till he brings it down. “I will not rest till I bring down the Babri-like structure of your power,” Mr Fadnavis said. He chanted Hanuman...
10 killed in ‘racially motivated’ shooting at US store
A heavily armed 18-year-old white gunman shot 10 people dead on Saturday at a Buffalo, New York grocery store in a “racially motivated” attack that he live-streamed on camera, authorities said. The gunman, who was wearing a helmet and tactical gear, was arrested after the massacre, Buffalo Police Commissioner...
Fake Hindutva party misleading nation, says Uddhav Thackeray
There is “a fake Hindutva party” misleading the nation, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said on Saturday in a counter attack on the BJP that questioned the party’s Hindutva credentials. “There is fake Hindutva party that’s misleading the nation. Devendra Fadnavis (Maharashtra ex chief minister) was speaking about their...
Shah says he has never seen a govt worse than KCR’s
As next year’s poll battle for Telangana heats up, Congress, BJP, and the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) have already started training guns on each other. In the latest attack on Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah taunted him saying he doesn’t...
Punjab Cong ex-chief quits party after disciplinary notice
Sunil Jakhar, senior Congress leader and former chief of its Punjab unit, quit the party today, weeks after he was issued a showcause notice by the leadership over his criticism of former Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi. “Goodbye and good luck, Congress,” Jakhar said in a Facebook live video...
Delhi inferno building owners arrested
At least 27 people died and 12 were injured after a fire broke out in a four-storey commercial building in west Delhi’s Mundka on Friday evening, police said. Police are yet to share details about the identity of the victims. The injured have been admitted to the Sanjay Gandhi...
Terrorists kill wife of Kashmiri pandit
The wife of Rahul Bhat, a Kashmiri pandit who was killed by the terrorists yesterday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam, on Friday said that she is suspecting that terrorists must have acquired information about her husband’s identity from his workplace before killing. Notably, Rahul Bhat, who was a government...
Owaisi says Gyanvapi Masjid verdict a violation
All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday termed the Gyanvapi Masjid verdict a “blatant violation” of the Places of Worship Act 1991. As per the Act, “no person shall convert any place of worship of any religious denomination or any section thereof into a place of...
