- Saturday, April 19, 2025
HOURS after a Ukrainian plane carrying 176 people crashed near Tehran and Iranian government conducted missile strikes against US military bases in Iraq, India’s Air India said it is temporarily rerouting its flights and that of its subsidiary Air India Express which use Iranian airspace. The airline’s spokesperson said: "In…
AN Indian court has reserved orders on a petition moved by mining major Vedanta Limited challenging the closure of its copper smelter unit at Thootukudi in southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu in May 2018. Concluding the hearing of arguments after 39 days, a special bench of Justices TS Sivagnanam…
Delhi Police PRO M S Randhawa held a meeting with a delegation of students and teachers after violence broke out at the Jawaharlal Nehru University here, officials said on Monday. Violence broke out at the JNU on Sunday night as masked men armed with sticks and rods attacked students and…
A Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday approved the Expression of Interest (EoI) as well as the share purchase agreement for Air India's privatisation, a senior government official said. The EoI and the share purchase agreement would be issued in January itself for…
Banking, transport and other services across the country are likely to be hit as trade unions have called a nationwide strike on Wednesday. Nearly 25 crore people are said to be taking part in this all-India strike to protest against the government's "anti-people" policies. Ten central trade unions like INTUC,…
THE government has asked public sector undertakings to dissuade their employees from participating in the 'Bharat Bandh' called on Wednesday and advised them to prepare a contingency plan to ensure smooth functioning of the enterprises. Ten central trade unions have said around 25 crore people will participate in the nationwide…
Bollywood star Ajay Devgn on Tuesday said violence is not a solution to any problem and the Jawaharlal Nehru University attack is "very sad". The actor said he was not clear about what transpired inside the university campus on Sunday as news reports gave "conflicting" accounts. "I have been watching…
Four convicts in the sensational 2012 Nirbhaya Gang rape and murder case will be hanged on January 22 at 7 am in Tihar jail, a Delhi court said on Tuesday. The order was pronounced by Additional Sessions Judge Satish Kumar Arora who issued the death warrants against the four death row convicts Mukesh…
No one in the government has ever called the three detained former chief ministers of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir "anti-national", Home Minister Amit Shah has said, adding that a decision on their release will be taken by the administration of the union territory. Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah…
Mutual funds have added a whopping Rs 3.15 lakh crore to their asset base in 2019 on the back of robust inflows in debt schemes and measures taken by regulator Sebi for boosting investor confidence. The asset under management (AUM) of the industry rose by over 13 per cent (Rs…
