In a bid to a grand renaissance under the Tata Group, Air India is inching closer to placing landmark orders for 500 jetliners worth tens of billions of dollars from both giants Airbus and Boeing, Reuters reported citing industry sources. The orders, according to the sources, include 400 narrow-body planes…
Indian tourism minister G Kishan Reddy told the country's parliament on Monday (12) that his ministry has sought the home ministry's support to take up with state governments the matter of tourist police deployment at key tourism centres. Replying to a query in the Lok Sabha or Lower House of…
Scores of well-wishers and Pakistani fans of legendary actor Dilip Kumar highlighted the dilapidated condition of his ancestral house here as they remembered the late actor on his 100th birth anniversary. The Cultural Heritage Council (CHC) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa organised an event on Sunday (11) to celebrate the birth centenary…
Indian and Chinese soldiers clashed at a location along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Tawang sector of Arunachal Pradesh on December 9, resulting in minor injuries to a few personnel from both sides, military sources said on Monday (12). They said the Indian troops resolutely confronted the…
Seventeen ministers took oath under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the western Indian state of Gujarat where the saffron party registered a landslide victory last week by capturing 156 out of 182 seats in the state assembly. The new government is being led by Bhupendra Patel, who also…
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd proposes to drill 53 exploratory wells in Andhra Pradesh- 50 in Godavari on-Land PML (Petroleum Mining Lease) Block of KG Basin and three in CD-ONHP-2020/1 (OALP-Vi) Block Of Cuddapah basin with an investment outlay of Rs 2,150 crore (£212 million). Andhra Pradesh State-Level Environment…
India's is one of the most dangerous nations for the media with three or four journalists murdered in connection with their profession every year, the World Press Freedom Index 2022, published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF in French) has said. The 20th edition of the index said that the Global…
Unidentified gunmen attacked a hotel popular with Chinese business people in the Afghan capital Monday (12), with witnesses reporting multiple blasts and several bursts of gunfire. Smoke could be seen pouring from the multi-storey Kabul Longan Hotel as Taliban security forces rushed to the site and sealed off the neighbourhood.…
Law-keepers in India have said that they will prosecute a man who allegedly made an app that uploaded photos of over 80 women from the minority Muslim community for "sale" online last year. The announcement came after Delhi's lieutenant governor VK Saxena gave permission to try the accused, Aumkareshwar Thakur,…
Indian external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Monday (12) took a dig at the developed nations, ones that have huge carbon footprint, saying they were passing the buck onto other nations without carrying out their share of emission control. Speaking on climate justice at the India Global Forum in Dubai,…