Day: April 17, 2019

NGT disposes plea against landfill sites at Sonia Vihar, Ghonda Gujran

New Delhi : The National Green Tribunal has refused to entertain a plea seeking cancellation of approval granted by the DDA to allot land at Sonia Vihar and Ghonda Gujran areas to set up landfill sites. A bench headed by Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, which had earlier issued […]

SC to hear I-T dept plea against quashing of black money case involving Chidambaram’s family

New Delhi :  The Supreme Court Tuesday agreed to hear the Income Tax department’s appeal challenging the Madras High Court order which quashed criminal prosecution against senior Congress leader P Chidambaram’s family members under the black money law. The top court, however, refused to stay the order of […]

CSMT bridge collapse: Two civic engineers file bail pleas

Mumbai : Two BMC engineers, arrested in connection with last month’s foot-over bridge (FOB) collapse here, have moved separate bail pleas before a Mumbai sessions court, claiming the case against them is “false and concocted”. The engineers, Anil Patil and S F Kakulte, were working with the bridges department […]

?3 private players offer ideal, healthy competition: Vodafone Idea CEO

New Delhi ; Vodafone Idea, which is in the midst of Rs 25,000 crore mega fund-raising, has said the Indian telecom market with three private players is an “ideal scenario” in terms of healthy competition, dismissing any possibility of cartelisation or duopoly. “It is three private players plus one […]

Sensex, Nifty hit record highs on earnings, monsoon optimism

Mumbai :  Equity benchmark Sensex rallied about 370 points to scale a record closing high of 39,275.64 as investors’ sentiment got further boost from forecast of a near-normal monsoon and a bumper start of corporate earnings season. Similarly, the broader NSE Nifty surged 97 points to close at a […]

Lenders to Jet working on revival, no final decision yet: PNB MD

New Delhi : Lenders to the cash-strapped Jet Airways are committed to reviving the air carrier but nothing has been finalised yet, Punjab National Bank (PNB) Managing Director Sunil Mehta said on Tuesday. PNB is part of a consortium of 26 lenders, led by State Bank of India (SBI), […]

Jet Airways operating 5 planes, seeks emergency funds: Kharola

New Delhi :  Jet Airways has sought emergency funds from banks and is currently operating only five planes, Civil Aviation Secretary Pradeep Singh Kharola said Tuesday. he cash-strapped airline has already suspended its international operations till April 18. Separately, the civil aviation ministry would convene meetings of representatives of […]

Notre-Dame blaze being treated as accident, not arson: prosecutor

Paris : The Paris prosecutor said Tuesday that investigators were treating the devastating fire at the Notre-Dame cathedral as an accident not arson. “Nothing suggests that it was a voluntary act,” Remy Heitz told reporters outside the Gothic cathedral, adding that workers employed at the site were being questioned […]

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