It is that time of the year again!! Spring in Sydney, the weather is warming up, the flowers are blooming, the day is getting longer and the birds chirping with the enthusiasm of a child in the mother’s lap!! But wait, there is more, we are approaching Diwali!! The festival of lights – Diwali or […]
San Francisco-based ride hailing major Uber on Tuesday launched its public transport service in Delhi, the ninth city globally and the first in Asia to have the feature. With this feature, Uber users in Delhi would be able to use the public transport option that will appear on the app. Once the users use this […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Kartarpur Corridor on November 9 and dispatch the first lot of pilgrims to visit Kartarpur Sahib gurdwara in Pakistan’s Punjab province, Ministry of Home Affairs said on Tuesday. Former prime minister Manmohan Singh would be a part of the Sikh delegation led by Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has met Captain Amol Yadav, a pilot who built a six-seater aircraft on the terrace of his house in Mumbai. Modi on Sunday met the young pilot who reportedly took 19 years in perfecting the construction of his aircraft. According to a source here, Yadav could not get flying permit for […]
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Friday agreed to grant Ration Money Allowance, commonly known as RMA, to the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel who are up to the rank of Commandant, irrespective of the place they are deployed in. A Home Ministry order signed by an under secretary said, “The proposal of […]
A doctor with Safdarjung Hospital was arrested by the Delhi Police on allegations of rape and blackmail of a woman representative of a leading medical company here. According to the police, the woman met the doctor in the hospital in May. They again met in a coffee house in Delhi’s Green Park area. On May […]
Amid heightened threats at the borders with Pakistan and China, the Indian Army has planned to procure load ferrying drones, slow moving unmanned aerial vehicles doubled up as missiles, and artificial intelligence based solutions for change detection to carry out surveillance at high altitude border areas, sources in the armed forces said on Wednesday. The […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said India would not allow its water to flow to Pakistan. At the same time, he said he was happy the Kartarpur corridor project, linking India with the historic Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara, where Guru Nanak Dev breathed his last in Pakistan, is about to be completed. “For 70 years, […]
Around five lakhs ‘diyas’ (earthen lamps) will be lit in Ayodhya on the eve of Diwali this year with an aim to create a new world record. Last year, Ayodhya broke a Guinness World Record by lighting more than three lakh earthen lamps and keeping them burning for at least 45 minutes on the banks […]
The telecom operators paid a total of Rs 11,838 crore as IUC or interconnect user charges in 2018, led by Vodafone which paid Rs 4,214 crore followed by Airtel at Rs 3,411 crore and Jio at Rs 2,809 crore, a new report by market research firm techARC said on Friday. BSNL/MTNL paid Rs 1,405 crore […]