Agitators block highway traffic to protest razing of Balayogi Shree Sadanand Maharaj ashram
Mumbai:: Hundreds of agitators, including women, on Friday blocked traffic on a section of the Mumbai- Ahmedabad highway to protest demolition of an ashram at the Tungareshwar hills at Virar near Thane district. Thane district rural police sources said due...
Indian Railways Ties With ISRO to Come up With Real-time Monitering System in 700 Trains
New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has designed a Control Office Application (COA) system to monitor over 700 trains with an added GPS. The real-time monitoring between two stations with the tracking device began on Thursday. The Indian Railways...
Baggage Rules Changed For Metro, Now Carry Bags up to 25 kg
New Delhi: The Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry have brought some change in the rules of Metro Railways (Carriage and Ticket) which will allow passengers to carry heavier bag. The metro trains passengers across the country can now carry heavier...
BJP presidential election to be held in Dec
Bharatiya Janata Party working president J P Nadda says elections for party national president will be held in December this year. ...
BJP to add 7 crore new members: Nadda
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's membership is set to increase by seven crore, taking the total number of members to 18 crore, the working president of the party, J P Nadda, said on Thursday. Sharing the details of the BJP 'successful'...
SC order on PC’s plea against arrest on Sept 5
The Supreme Court on Thursday said it will pronounce on September 5 the order on plea of former finance minister P Chidambaram in the INX Media money laundering case lodged by the Enforcement Directorate. A bench of Justices R Banumathi and...
Air India to ban plastic products from October 2
Air India is set to impose a ban on plastic products like bags, cups and straws on all its flights. "From October 2, we are going to completely ban the use of plastics in Air India and the low-cost subsidiary...
‘Extraordinarily good relations with Maharashtra’ : David Ranz
Mumbai: The newly appointed Consul General of the United States of America in Mumbai David J. Ranz called on the Governor of Maharashtra CH. Vidyasagar Rao at Raj Bhavan, Mumbai on Thursday (29th Aug). Consul General Ranz told the Governor that...
Fire breaks out in Telangana Express, passengers safe
A fire broke out in two coaches of the Hyderabad-New Delhi Telangana Express at Asaoti station in Haryana on Thursday, Northern Railway officials said. All passengers are safe. Fire broke out in two coaches of the train at 7:43 am...
Only terrorists use phone, internet: J-K guv
Following days of restrictions, mobile phone services have been resumed in five districts of Jammu region. Starting Wednesday night, the services were restored in Doda, Kishtwar, Ramban, Rajouri and Poonch districts. Defending restrictions on the use of mobile phones and internet,...
Govt announces 75 new medical colleges
Centre announces creation of 15,700 medical seats after a key Cabinet meet on Wednesday evening. "The government will spend over Rs 24,000 crore on creating 75 new medical colleges in the country by 2021-22," Union minister Prakash Javadekar said, addressing a...
Govt relaxes FDI norms for single brand retail
The Union Cabinet has relaxed Foreign Direct Investment rules for single brand retail and expanded definition of 30 per cent domestic sourcing, Union minister Piyush Goyal told at a press conference on Wednesday evening. Goyal also informed that the Cabinet has...
Judge Sunil Gaur who rejected Chidambaram’s bail plea, appointed as chairperson of PMLA Appellate Tribunal
Judge Sunil Gaur of the Delhi High Court, who rejected Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram’s bail has been appointed the chairperson of the PMLA Appellate Tribunal. He retired as a Delhi High Court judge on Thursday, August 22. He was elevated to...
5-judge bench of SC to hear pleas on Art 370,notice to Centre
New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to examine the legal challenge against the Centre's decision to abrogate Article 370, which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, and referred the matter to a five-judge Constitution bench. The...
Fire breaks out at timber yard in Mumbai’s Byculla
A major fire broke out at a timber yard of Mustafa Bazaar in south Mumbai's Byculla in the early hours of Wednesday, a senior fire brigade official said. The incident took place at around 2.25 am and eight...
Violence in Kashmir instigated by Pak: Rahul
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi weighs in on Jammu and Kashmir. He tweets to say, "There is violence in Jammu & Kashmir. There is violence because it is instigated and supported by Pakistan which is known to be the...
No SPG for Sonia and kids?
The Special Protection Group Act is likely to be amended in the ensuing winter session of parliament, indicating that the elite security service will be available only to the Prime Minister. This will mean that SPG protection will be withdrawn...
Trainer aircraft crashes in Aligarh, no injuries reported
Aligarh : A trainer aircraft, VT-AVV, crashed in Aligarh at the Dhanipur airstrip after one of its wheels got stuck in wires during the landing on Tuesday. All passengers in the aircraft were rescued safely following the crash, according to City...
Stealing from RBI won’t work: Rahul
New Delhi: A day after the Reserve Bank of India approved the transfer of record Rs 1.76 lakh crore dividend and surplus reserves to the government, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi calls the move a theft. "PM & FM...
India’s first woman DGP Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya passes away
New Delhi: The first woman Director General of Police (DGP) of Uttarakhand as well as the country, Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya, passed away on late on Monday after suffering from an illness for which she was undergoing treatment in Mumbai. A 1973...
RBI board approves Rs 1.76 L cr transfer to govt
The Reserve Bank of India on Monday decided to transfer Rs 1.76 lakh crore in dividend and surplus reserve to the government. This follows the RBI board accepting the recommendation of a high-level panel headed by its former Governor...
