More travel options and lower fares await air passengers after the government Monday allowed Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger aircraft, to fly into the country. The civil aviation ministry lifted the ban imposed in 2008 on the ground that operation of A380s could work against the interest of Indian carriers. Industry insiders said not […]
Taking suo motu congnizance of media reports that the hands of two migrant labourers were chopped off in Odisha, the Supreme Court Monday issued notice to the state government and also to Andhra Pradesh, where the contractor who hired them was based. The notice is returnable in four weeks. The bench of Chief Justice P. […]
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Monday said his party decided to support the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Delhi “to give them a chance to prove themselves” and dismissed the notion that it was done in order to divide the anti-Congress vote. Asked by Times Now news channel if after witnessing the “chaos” in […]
In a significant judgment, the Supreme Court has held that if compensation for land acquired under the 1894 act has not been paid to the land owner or deposited with a competent court and retained in the treasury, then the acquisition would be deemed to have lapsed and would be covered under the 2013 law […]
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which intends to contest all the 80 seats from Uttar Pradesh – and 350 overall – in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, has set up an election war room here, a party official said. The state secretariat, as it is called, will double up as AAP’s office and the strategy […]
The BJP Tuesday took Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi head on, saying he was ill-informed about the 1984 anti-sikh riots. Rahul Gandhi, in a TV interview Monday night, said the difference between the 1984 riots and the 2002 riots in Gujarat was that in the former, the government was trying to stop the violence while […]
The Delhi High Court Tuesday issued notice to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Law Minister Somnath Bharti on pleas seeking cancellation of their election for exceeding the expenditure limit in last December’s assembly polls. The court sought their response by Feb 25 on petitions by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Vijender Gupta and Arti Mehra […]
Stalemate continued in Andhra Pradesh assembly Tuesday as legislators from Telangana stalled the proceedings demanding the speaker to reject a notice given by the chief minister for rejecting Telangana bill. Speaker N. Manohar adjourned the house for an hour, minutes after it assembled for the day as legislators from Telangana surrounded the podium to press […]
On the occasion of its 65th Republic Day, India Sunday gifted 20 ambulances and four buses to hospitals and charitable institutions in Nepal. At a public function held at the Indian embassy here, India’s Ambassdor Ranjit Rae hoisted the Tricolour and read out the message of President Pranab Mukherjee that stressed India’s support to peace, […]
A total of 24 prisoners were freed from Tihar Central Jail here and 1,000 others, except those convicted for rape, smuggling, and drugs offences, got remission in their sentences ranging from 15 days to two months on the occasion of the Republic Day, an official said. “Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung gave remission in the jail […]