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Drawing flak for his unsavoury comments in the assembly a day before, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar apologised for the same and took back his words. “I take back my words and apologise for my remarks,” said Nitish, while talking to reporters. The CM was on the dock for his comments on how an educated […]
Ahead of the assembly polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in Raipur that the Centre would extend the free ration scheme to the poor for another five years. Addressing a public rally in the Chhattisgarh capital, PM Modi said, “I have decided that the BJP government will extend the scheme of providing free rations to […]
Infosys founder Narayana Murthy thanked Manmohan Singh, Montek Singh Ahluwalia and P Chidambaram for the ‘economic freedom’ they ushered in India with their policies. Murthy said that India got economic freedom only in 1991. “While we got political freedom in 1947, we got economic freedom only in 1991. And we owe it to Narasimha Rao. […]
Days ahead of Diwali, the air quality index in Delhi-NCR slipped into the ‘severe’ category with the indice measuring as much as 486 in some areas. An air emergency has been declared in the city with Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal announcing the shutting down of all government and primary schools on Friday and Saturday. […]
Chairman of Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited Akash Ambani on Friday heaped praise on ‘visionary’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the 7th edition of the India Mobile Congress for ‘leading the digital connectivity revolution to connect 1.4 billion Indians’ and for ‘always working on latest technology’. “Every generation needs a vision that inspires it to do […]
A Qatari court on Thursday handed down death penalty to eight Indian nationals, who were in jail in the country since August last year. The ministry of external affairs said, it was “deeply shocked” and that it was exploring all legal options in the case. The charges against the eight former Indian Navy personnel were […]
Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia is going to be the latest international destination to be added to Ahmedabad’s Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel international (SVPI) airport. A direct flight to the Malaysian capital is in the offing from December 1 from the city airport as the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has announced the winter schedule for […]
People across India are gearing up for Dussehra or Vijayadashami celebrations that mark the end of the nine-day Navratri and Durga Puja festivities. Ravan Dahan, the burning of the effigy of demon king Ravan is considered one of the most important rituals of Dussehra in many parts of the country. The ritual symbolises the victory […]
The government has stressed that the Supreme Court needs to first finalise the long-pending memorandum of procedure (MoP) that provides for conditions and timeline for appointments to the higher judiciary. This comes after the apex court disapproved the practice of Centre to “pick and choose” out of names recommended by its collegium for judgeship in […]
Ornithopter – a device that flies by flapping its wings – is a bird-like drone employed for reconnaissance. A research by Parag Rughani, associate dean of the School of Earth, Space and Internet Technologies at National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU), Ahmedabad and his doctoral student Yash Patel has recently received patent for an ornithopter-based aerial […]
BJP’s Lok Sabha member Nishikant Dubey on Saturday said TMC MP Mahua Moitra was in India when her parliamentary ID was used in Dubai. He claimed the National Informatics Centre (NIC) has disclosed the information to probe agencies. In a post on X in Hindi, the BJP leader said “an MP pawned the country’s security […]
The passport of a woman who was to attend her daughter-in-law’s post-funeral rituals in the UK, was renewed within 24 hours in Ahmedabad on humanitarian grounds. The Ahmedabad Regional Passport Office treated it as an exceptional case and issued the new passport to Dhiruben Pandya, a resident of the city’s Paldi area, the very next […]
Gujarat’s Dhordo village has found place on the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) list of Best Tourism Villages for 2023. The accolade recognises villages that are leading the way in nurturing rural areas and preserving landscapes, cultural diversity, local values, and culinary traditions. In this third edition 54 villages from all regions were selected […]
At the inaugural event of the 2-day All India Education Convention at Pragati Maidan, PM Narendra Modi said that even at the UN, he speaks in Indian languages. He lamented the fact that despite the existence of several prosperous languages in India, they were represented as unprogressive. He made this point at the inaugural event […]
The highest monthly mop-up since the implementation of the indirect tax regime, GST collection increased by 12% in April to Rs 1.87 lakh crore. According to a statement from the finance ministry, the total GST revenue collected in the month of April 2023 is Rs 1,87,035 crore, of which CGST is Rs 38,440 crore, SGST […]
India has recorded 9,355 new coronavirus infections, while the number of active cases has dropped to 57,410, according to data updated on Thursday by the Union health ministry. The data updated at 8 am showed that the death toll rose to 5,31,424 with 26 deaths, including six fatalities that Kerala reconciled. The weekly positivity rate […]
India has recorded 9,629 new coronavirus infections, while the number of active cases has dropped from 63,380 to 61,013, according to the data updated on Wednesday by the Union Health Ministry. The data updated at 8 am showed that the death toll rose to 5,31,398 with 29 deaths, including 10 that Kerala reconciled. The weekly […]
India has recorded 12,193 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of active cases up to 67,556, according to the Union Health Ministry on Saturday. According to the ministry’s data updated at 8 am, the number of people who have died due to the viral disease has increased to […]
The number of coronavirus infections in India has surged to 10,542, while the number of active cases has risen to 63,562, according to figures updated on Wednesday by the Union Health Ministry. The figures updated at 8 am showed that the death toll rose to 5,31,190 with 38 deaths, including 11 that Kerala reconciled. The […]
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stated that the Indian economy will continue on course and is likely to grow around 7% in 2022–23, with the International Monetary Fund and World Bank forecasting that India will be the fastest-growing global economy in 2023. Sitharaman, who was in attendance at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC, for the […]
