Bypolls to the Tura parliamentary constituency, necessitated by death of sitting member and former Lok Sabha speaker P.A. Sangma, and nine assembly constituencies in seven states will be held May 16, the Election Commission announced on Tuesday. The assembly constituencies are Kanubari (Arunachal Pradesh), Anantnag (Jammu and Kashmir), represented by late chief minister Mufti Mohammed […]
Eighteen taxis belonging to Ola and Uber have been impounded in Delhi for over-charging clients, Transport Minister Gopal Rai said on Tuesday. “We impounded 18 vehicles of Ola and Uber yesterday for over-charging and permit violation,” Rai told reporters here. “The action was taken after commuters complained on the helpline provided by the Delhi government,” […]
The government on Monday told the Supreme Court that the East India Company did not take away the Kohinoor diamond but it was gifted to Britain by Maharaja Duleep Singh. The government stand was conveyed to the apex court bench of Chief Justice T.S. Thakur and Justice Uday Umesh Lalit in response to a public […]
A special court here on Monday issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against liquor baron Vijay Mallya, official sources said. On April 15, the Enforcement Directorate had moved the special court handling cases under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, seeking the warrant against Mallya who is currently outside India. On at least three occasions, Mallya […]
Three days after Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s odd-even scheme was implemented in Delhi, it faced its real test on Monday when it witnessed maximum traffic during office hours. “Today is the litmus test for odd-even scheme. And just like our last time attempt to make it a success, we have to co-operate with each other,” […]
The Puttingal Devi temple here where a fireworks disaster killed 114 people opened on Sunday to devotees for the first time after a week. With devotees looking on, temple priest Unnikrishnan Nampoothiri opened the temple and offered the customary prayers, residents said. A huge pile of fireworks exploded early on the morning of April 10 […]
Three people were injured, one critically, on Sunday when a concrete slab being laid on the Lucknow Metro Rail route caved in, police said. The concrete slab collapsed at Sujanpura near the Alambagh bus station, said the police. The injured, said to be labourers, have been admitted to a nearby hospital, where condition of one […]
India’s top IT company Tata Consultancy Services has been fined $940-million by a US Federal Court in Wisconsin for allegedly stealing software information. The Indian company said it intended to appeal against the verdict in higher courts. Besides the punitive damages of $700 million, the US Federal Court of the Western District of Wisconsin has […]
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday visited curfew-bound Handwara town to take stock of the situation even as the central government has decided to send more paramilitary forces to the state – on the boil for four days over civilian killings by security forces. Mehbooba Mufti was accompanied by state Deputy Chief […]
The death of two Indian girl students in a Russian medical college hostel fire and that of a medical student from Srinagar in a Russian city will figure External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s trip to Moscow on April 18. “I am going to Moscow. The final investigation report into fire tragedy in which we lost […]