AAP launches ‘Mission 2025’ ahead of Delhi Assembly elections

New Delhi: The Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi...

Women achievers felicitated at conclave hosted by itv network

Delhi Chief Minister Atishi Singh, mountaineer Meenu...

Launch of pilot projects under National Green Hydrogen Mission

Bengaluru: As part of National Green Hydrogen...

Dibyendu Mondal

‘Nobody wants war, but we need to give it back to Pak, if provoked’

Visitors to war memorial want economic, diplomatic pressures on Pakistan to give up terrorism.   NEW DELHI: Most visitors from across the country who had come...

74 Indian PoWs held captive in Pakistan jails for decades

Their presence in that country has not been acknowledged by Pakistan so far.   New Delhi: Even as India celebrates the return of Wing Commander Abhinandan...

MiG 21, MiG 27 will be phased out by 2024

MiGs have been crashing repeatedly and have been termed ‘flying coffins’ by defence experts.   New Delhi: The Russian-made accident-prone MiG fighter planes—MiG 21 and MiG...

Delhi Congress won’t have alliance with AAP

However, Congress and AAP don’t rule out post-poll alliance with each other.   NEW DELHI: The Delhi unit of the Congress has once again categorically denied...

MoD inked 99 contracts with Indian vendors

Expert says the ‘Make in India’ initiative for the defence sector is the need of the hour.   Giving a push to “Make in India” projects...

Traders hail import duty hike on goods from Pakistan

‘India’s bold and strong move will surely hurt the Pakistani economy.’   Indian exporters and importers have hailed the Indian government’s decision to withdraw the Most...

Bengal BJP completes survey of candidates to take on TMC

New Delhi: The West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has finished the month-and-a-half long survey it had launched to find the...

‘Many hotels, restaurants in Delhi are flouting fire safety norms’

Half of over 5,400 restaurants and eateries do not comply with building norms.   NEW DELHI: The tragic incident of fire that broke out at a...

Akshaya Patra Foundation will open more kitchens in UP, Northeast

VRINDAVAN: Akshaya Patra Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation working towards elimination of hunger, is planning to open six more kitchens in Uttar Pradesh where on...

Protests against Saradha, Rose Valley reach Delhi

Duped investors were not allowed to protest in Kolkata against the Bengal government’s inaction in the cases.   More than 200 defrauded investors and agents of...

Celebrities may be prosecuted for misleading endorsements

‘The new rule will help keep a check on those who put out false information about their food products’.   NEW DELHI: Celebrities could soon be...

UDAN flights from Hindon

The civil enclave at the Hindon Air Force base is being built at a cost of Rs 45 crore.   New Delhi: Congestion at Delhi airport’s...

Congress in Bengal against Rahul’s support-Mamata line

New Delhi: The Congress in Bengal has opposed the support that the national leadership of the party provided to Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool...

Citizenship Bill may get BJP political dividends in Bengal

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party is hoping that the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2016, felicitation of the Indian National Army on the occasion of...

‘Verdict on land where Masjid stood will be decided by the court’

Iqbal Ansari, son of Hashim Ansari, the main Muslim litigant, says the government can decide on the adjoining area.   NEW DELHI: At a time when...

‘The entire property belongs to Ram Lalla only and nobody else’

Mahant Dharamdas, the main Hindu litigant in the case, says the Centre’s plea in Supreme Court is wrong and unjustified.   NEW DELHI: The Sunday Guardian...

Facial recognition will help Indian flyers go paperless

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Indian domestic flyers will soon be able to fly paperless with the help of a new facial recognition technology being introduced under the...

‘Tihar is one of my most satisfying assignments’

Ajay Kashyap, Director General of Prisons, Delhi, says that Tihar jail is running many programmes to rehabilitate and reform inmates.   NEW DELHI: The Tihar jail...

Commercial use of drones in India set to rise

Drones will not only be used in the service industry, but also in agriculture, film making, mining, infrastructure projects and for medical purposes.   NEW DELHI:...

Zomato will soon deliver food with the help of drones

The project will be launched on a pilot basis from Delhi-NCR and Chandigarh in March this year. It will cut door-to-door delivery time by...

‘SkyFit’ yoga will help aviation officials deal with stress

‘The program consists of breathing techniques based on ancient yogic traditions’.     Mumbai: To counter the immense stress that officials at the Air Traffic Control (ATC)...

India to make air travel affordable: Suresh Prabhu

First-ever Global Aviation Summit saw participation of 83 nations with over 1,000 delegates from these countries.   Mumbai: The first-ever two-day Global Aviation Summit was organised...

‘India will need 2,300 aircraft in 20 years’

Boeing’s Dinesh Keskar says that hiccups are always there but the Indian aviation market will continue to grow fast in the coming years.   Mumbai:  On...

ICCR streamlines scholarship system for foreign students after complaints against officers

NEW DELHI: After receiving several complaints of malpractice and corruption in the placement of foreign students coming to study in India under scholarships offered...

Dhaula Kuan skywalk to open in February

Construction of the skywalk had hit some roadblocks and the project had got delayed twice.   NEW DELHI: The massive and state-of-the-art 1.2 km long skywalk...

BJP in Bengal on a high as senior TMC leader joins party

New Delhi: The Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has got a fresh lease of life after a senior Trinamool Congress (TMC)...

Industry bodies want corporate tax rate reduced

Other business hotspots like Singapore, Macau and Hong Kong have corporate tax rates at 17%, 12% and 16.50% respectively.   New Delhi: With some of the...

Company Law Tribunal helps creditors recover Rs 80,000Cr from defaulting firms

New Delhi: The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), tasked with the recovery of bad debts in the corporate sector, has registered over 1,200 cases...

DU college forms panel to look into ‘exam scam’

The committee has been set up to look into allegations levelled against the top administration of Satyawati College.   New Delhi: An inquiry committee has been...

AAP divided over alliance with Congress for general elections

New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party is a divided house when it comes to a possible alliance with the Congress party for the 2019...

Phase-III done, Delhi Metro to become world’s largest network by next month

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is likely to complete all its projects under the third phase and throw open its services...

‘Over 78,500 Indian websites hacked in 2016-18’

According to reports, at least 270 cases of  government websites being hacked were registered during 2017-18 alone.   NEW DELHI: Over 78,500 Indian websites were hacked...

‘Public perception’ survey by Delhi cops

New Delhi: The Delhi Police has initiated a “Public Perception” survey of the police force in the national capital for the first time. The...

TMC scared, appeasing vote bank: BJP on Rath Yatra battle in Bengal

‘TMC fears that the Yatra would create euphoria among the people of Bengal in favour of the BJP.’   New Delhi: The Bengal unit of the...

Many Central infra projects facing delays

Main reasons are problems in land acquisition and delay in securing green clearances.   New Delhi: As many as 350 Central infrastructure and development projects worth...

TMC leaders want Mamata to lead federal front

New Delhi: West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress leaders are hoping that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will lead the “federal front” against the Bharatiya Janata...

Women’s bill unlikely to be passed in winter session

This is due to lack of political consensus among several political parties.   New Delhi: The long pending Women’s Reservation Bill is not likely to pass...

Bengal BJP reworking dates for proposed Rath Yatra

Yatra hitting roadblock and BJP’s poor show in Assembly polls have hit cadre morale.   New Delhi: The proposed “Ganatantra Bachao” (Save Democracy) Rath Yatra of...

Delhi Police solve Mercedes hit-and-run case in 36 hours

New Delhi: In a complex and blind Mercedes hit-and-run case in Dwarka in south-west Delhi, the Delhi Police launched a massive search operation of...

‘Yamuna in Delhi is dead’

Experts say dissolved oxygen levels in the river have been ‘nil’ in Delhi since 2015.   New Delhi: River Yamuna, which is the source of 70%...

Debate on rural distress needed: Varun Gandhi

BJP MP from Sultanpur says that through his book, he seeks a rejig in rural policy.   Feroze Varun Gandhi, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parliamentarian and...

AAP to contest 80-100 seats

The party will, however, contest all the seven LS seats in its home turf of Delhi.   Taking a cue from the debacle in the 2014...

Religiosity of Indians on the rise

Study finds that visits by Indians to their respective religious places have increased by over 10%.   Indians have become more religious in the past 14...

Ban on hookah bars goes up in smoke

Most of these establishments are flouting the rules that came into effect last year.   The ban on hookah parlours and on restaurants and bars...

BJP plans to take the chariot route in Bengal

The party will start a rath yatra in the state from 7 December.   The Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party is making elaborate arrangements...

DGCA sees no need to change system to catch drunk pilots on duty

Though the number of pilots “caught drunk” while reporting for duty has been increasing over the years, officials of the Directorate General of Civil...

Couple faces mob attack

Accuses cops of diluting FIR and trying to downplay incident.     A Gurgaon-based couple, on an outing to New Delhi’s upscale Khan Market area, was allegedly...

Bengal BJP wants Amit Shah to contest from state

Bharatiya Janata Party national president Amit Shah is being asked by the party’s West Bengal unit to contest the Lok Sabha elections next year...

Busy in MP, Vijayvargiya goes missing from Bengal

He is in charge of Bengal BJP, which is faction-ridden and is feeling direction-less.   At the time when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is aiming...

Congress’ Delhi leaders vanish from social media

In contrast, BJP and AAP leaders are extensively using Twitter and Facebook to reach out to their voters.   Congress leaders, who contested the 2015 Assembly...

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