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Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation on Friday imposed a Rs 10 lakh fine on Go First for the incident wherein 55 passengers were left behind in a passenger coach at Bangalore airport on January 9. The watchdog DGCA issued a show-cause notice to the airline following the incident. In the statement, it said […]
Bollywood Superstar Shah Rukh Khan‘s Pathaan has already registered a spot in big numbers at the global box office as the film’s worldwide collection on day two reached Rs 219.6 crore, the makers announced on Thursday. According to production house Yash Raj Films, the SRK-Deepika Padukone featuring in the movie raised Rs 113.6 crore in […]
Delhi Police personnel entered the Ambedkar University campus on Friday to stop SFI activists from screening the controversial BBC documentary on the 2002 Godhra riots, several students alleged, even as alternative arrangements to watch it on phones and laptops were made. Police officials said they were visiting all college and university campuses in the district […]
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said he had to cancel his walk for the day because police arrangements unfortunately “completely collapsed”. The former Congress president said that Police personnel who were supposed to manage the crowd were nowhere to be seen. “It’s the Jammu and Kashmir administration’s responsibility to provide security… I hope security […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday that parents should not pressure children due to social status, and asked students to focus on their work to come out of any such burden of expectations. In response to students’ questions during the sixth edition of ‘Pariksha Pe Charcha,’ an annual interaction he has with students about […]
A Delhi court on Friday adjourned Shankar Mishra’s petition seeking bail to January 30. Mishra, who is accused of urinating on a woman co-passenger onboard a flight in November last year had filed a fresh bail application seeking regular bail. The court adjourned the matter after noting the investigating officer was not present. Further, the […]
Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari, the Sohna-Dausa section of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway would open by the end of January. According to the Union minister, the inauguration of the section would significantly cut the distance between the national capital and Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan, to only two hours. Gadkari said at […]
India has signed an agreement with South Africa to translocate 12 cheetahs to the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh, a senior official in the Union Environment Ministry said on Friday. Last week, the pact was signed and seven male and five female cheetahs are expected to reach Kuno by February 15, the official said. […]
Ghazal singers Ahmed Hussain and Mohammad Hussain of Jaipur will be awarded Padma Shri in the field of arts. Hussain brothers have thanked the central and state government for this honour and extended their greetings to the people on Republic Day and Basant Panchami. Ahmed Hussain said, “ Those interested in this field should not […]
Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Raj Kumar has been appointed as the new Chief Secretary to the Gujarat government. Raj Kumar, a 1987-batch IAS officer, is currently serving as the Additional Chief Secretary in the state Home Department. The 58-year-old bureaucrat will replace incumbent chief secretary Pankaj Kumar, who is retiring on January 31, a […]
In an apparent rebuttal to his former deputy, Sachin Pilot, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot said the Congress returned to power in 2018 because of the work done by him in his previous dispensation. He was speaking at a media brief after the Republic Day function at Sawai Man Singh Stadium, Thursday. As he said this, […]
India issued a notice to Pakistan for modification of the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) of September 1960. The notice was conveyed on January 25 through the respective Commissioners for Indus Waters as per Article XII (3) of IWT. In 2015, Pakistan requested for appointment of a neutral expert to examine its technical objections to India’s […]
The Rajasthan government began the construction of ‘Rajiv Gandhi Knowledge Service and Innovation Hubs’ in Jaipur, Jodhpur and Kota on January 25, worth Rs 600 crore. The ambitious project, which is aimed at empowering the youth. A senior official said that “The three hubs are expected to be completed this year. “Rajiv Gandhi as the […]
Gujarat Additional Director General of Police (law and order) Narasimha Komar (IPS) received the award for excellence in security management in the Election Commission of India’s national awards for election management in 2022-23. The ECI recognised that his leadership, planning, coordination with different agencies and security arrangements led to the peaceful election in Gujarat. The […]
Isro’s latest rocket, Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV), is all set for launch with the space agency aiming for an early February launch carrying three payloads. While the main payload will be an Earth observation satellite – the EOS-7 – the mission is also expected to launch Janus-1 from US firm Antaris and a third […]
A Delhi court on Friday allowed Bollywood actor Jacqueline Fernandez to travel to Dubai. The court was hearing her application seeking permission to travel abroad for a conference. A detailed order in the matter is awaited. Fernandez is an accused in a worth Rs 200 crore money laundering case also involving alleged conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar. […]
A charge sheet was filed in the Morbi suspension bridge collapse case on January 27, 2022, by Deputy Superintendent of Police P. S. Zala, who is the investigating officer in the case. The 1,262-page charge sheet names ten accused, including Oreva Group Managing Director Jaysukh Patel. Notably, the Overa group was in charge of the […]
After the US-based investment research firm Hindenburg Research made damaging allegations, the Adani group stocks fell up to 20 percent in morning trade on Friday. Shares of Adani Total Gas plummeted 19.65 percent, Adani Transmission tumbled 19 percent, Adani Green Energy plunged 15.50 percent and Adani Enterprises tanked 6.19 percent on the BSE. Also, Adani […]
Axar Patel, an Indian cricketer, married his girlfriend, Meha Patel, on January 26, 2023, in Vadodara, Gujarat. It was a traditional Gujarati wedding that saw the closest members of the two families in attendance. After KL Rahul’s marriage with Bollywood veteran Sunil Shetty’s daughter Athiya Shetty, Axar was next in line. Both the players skipped […]
The former Punjab chief minister, Captain Amarinder Singh, is likely to be appointed as the new governor of Maharashtra after incumbent governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari, a former MLA, tendered his resignation. Captain Amarinder Singh joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on September 19, 2022, and also merged his party, the Punjab Lok Congress (PLC), with […]
