GUWAHATI, India – Protesters in northeast India claimed victory on Wednesday after a bill that the government says will help Hindus in neighbouring countries settle in India lapsed before it could be ratified by parliament. The Citizenship Amendment Bill is aimed at helping Hindus and members of other […]
Pune, Feb 12: City police Tuesday claimed to have cracked the case in which four armed robbers allegedly held an elderly cotton trader and three others hostage at gunpoint at his bungalow here and decamped with cash and valuables worth Rs 5.7 lakh last month. Crime branch officials said […]
New Delhi, Feb 12: The regional air connectivity scheme has been a game changer for the aviation sector and 1 crore people will be travelling under the scheme after one year, a senior civil aviation ministry official said Tuesday. The scheme — Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik (UDAN) — […]
Chennai, Feb 12: The Madras High Court on Tuesday ordered the concerned authorities to immediately close all illegal bars across Tamil Nadu and file a report by February 20. Expressing surprise over a submission made on behalf of the state government, which stated that 3,326 FIRs had been against […]
Jaipur, Feb 12:Robert Vadra, Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s brother-in-law, has been called again for questioning by the Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday, following a day-long session Tuesday. The ED is questioning him for alleged money laundering through questionable land deals in Rajasthan’s Bikaner district. His mother Maureen Vadra was […]
NEW DELHI – A fire swept through a hotel in New Delhi early on Tuesday, killing 17 people, authorities in the Indian capital said, raising fresh questions about safety standards in poorly regulated budget hotels. Frequent raids by civic authorities to enforce building codes, fire safety measures and […]
New Delhi, Feb 12: The Delhi government has ordered a magisterial probe into a massive fire at a hotel in central Delhi’s Karol Bagh area on Tuesday in which at least 17 people were killed, its Home Minister Satyendar Jain said. Jain, who visited the Arpit Palace Hotel where […]
New Delhi, Feb 12:At least 17 people were killed as a massive fire swept through a hotel in central Delhi’s Karol Bagh area early Tuesday, police said. The fire broke out at Arpit Palace Hotel located on Gurudwara Road in Karol Bagh. A call about the fire was […]
Cuttack, Feb 11: Lawyers of all the bar associations in Odisha, including that of Orissa High Court, joined the two-day nationwide demonstrations in response to a call given by the Bar Council of India (BCI). The State Bar Council last week had decided to extend its support to the […]
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI – India on Sunday launched the third bidding round under its open acreage licensing policy (OALP), according to a government statement. Twenty three blocks covering an area of 32,000 square kilometers were offered for bidding, out of which 5 are for extraction of coal bed methane. […]
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