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In addition to the two terrorist suspects who were apprehended from the national capital’s Jahangirpuri neighbourhood last week, officials claimed on Tuesday that Delhi Police is also looking for four additional suspects ahead of Republic Day. The suspects in the terror attacks obtained their weapons from Pakistan via the “drop-dead” technique, and they spoke with […]
While the ill-effects of plastic and toxic wastes continue to wreak havoc with ecological balance, a new report by Ahmedabad-based Jivdaya Charitable Trust (JCT) has brought back the glare on irresponsible dumping of plastic wastes in and around water bodies which led 120 birds to a miserable death in 2022. Nearly 114 of this number […]
NASA scientists said on Tuesday that they have located an Earth-sized planet in the habitable region of its star. According to NASA, which used information from its Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), the planet, known as TOI 700 e, is a member of the TOI 700 system, 95% the size of Earth, and most likely […]
Security agencies have advised Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to avoid specific sections of the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Kashmir. A senior official said, “A detailed plan has been put in place to secure him and it has been advised that he should avoid travelling certain stretches on foot and instead travel in car.” The specifics […]
In West Nepal, searchers used drones and rappelled into a 200-metre-deep gorge to look for two passengers who remained missing following the nation’s deadliest plane crash in 30 years, which left at least 70 people dead on Tuesday. The Yeti Airlines ATR 72 turboprop carrying 72 passengers crashed in clear weather on Sunday minutes before […]
The Gujarat High Court cautioned to take suo motu cognizance of the issue on Monday after noting that few individuals in the state wear helmets when operating two-wheelers. When a PIL regarding illicit slaughterhouses and stores selling meat in the state was being heard, Chief Justice Aravind Kumar took note of this. The state government […]
The civic body has got a new supply of 43,000 doses of Covid vaccination from the union government after running out more than 20 days ago. All Urban health centres will once again administer vaccinations starting on Tuesday. According to the health department, the Union government provided 18,000 and 25,000 doses of Covaxin and Covishield, […]
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad stated that 1.3 lakhs “weak booths” were identified by the BJP during its National Executive Meeting, adding that the required measures would be done to improve them. Speaking at a press conference, Prasad added that there has been no discussion of extending […]
Six people have been killed in a mass shooting at a residence in central California, including a 17-year-old woman and her six-month-old child. On Monday at around 03:30 (11:30 GMT), the Goshen residence was visited by police, who discovered two bodies outside and others inside. The sheriff called it a “horrific massacre” and said police […]
The newly announced national-level cooperative society for organic food products, which will concentrate on increasing farmers’ income by improving the production, certification, and marketing system, will include National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), Amul, and NAFED as three of its five promoters. Last week, a proposal to create three new national-level multi-state cooperative societies to support […]
BJP president J P Nadda underlined the importance of the nine state assembly polls to be held this year in the run up to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, and asked the party’s national executive to ensure it does not lose in any state. In Nadda’s address to the key BJP body, whose two-day meeting […]
The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) rescued seven crew members of a fishing boat after it caught fire in the Arabian Sea off the Gujarat coast on Monday. The ICG Maritime Rescue Sub Centre (MRSC) at Porbandar received a distress alert around 9:45 am regarding a fire on board ‘Jay Bhole’ 50 kilometres off the coast, […]
The flagship Ganga Vilas cruise, which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week, got stuck on the third day of its 51-day journey in Bihar’s Chhapra due to shallow water in the Ganga, officials said on Monday. The cruise which was scheduled to dock at the shore for the tourists to visit Chirand, […]
More than seven years after a Supreme Court Constitution Bench directed the Centre to finalise the Memorandum of Procedure (MoP) in consultation with the Chief Justice of India by incorporating additional appropriate measures to streamline the functioning of the “collegium system”, the issue remains unresolved. Currently, the Centre has proposed setting up a ‘search-cum-evaluation committee’ […]
In Gujarat, at least six persons, among them three children, were killed after their necks were slit by kite strings and 176 were injured due to cuts and falls while flying kites during Uttarayan festival, police said on Monday. The incidents were reported over the weekend when people came out in large numbers to fly […]
A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court rejected a plea seeking to call Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani as a witness in a 1989 case related to an alleged attempt to murder businessman Nusli Wadia. Ivan Sequeira, one of the accused in the more than 33-year-old case, had moved the special CBI court last […]
Aether Industries on Monday announced the commercialisation of a manufacturing site in Surat, Gujarat, to manufacture specialty chemicals. The total capital expenditure planned for the site is around Rs 190 crore. Out of the total investment for the new facility, Aether Industries has raised Rs 163 crore from the initial public offering (IPO). The IPO […]
Gujarat has created a conducive startup ecosystem by implementing several changes in regulations and clauses, and the state is on its way to becoming one of the most progressive destinations for such ventures, according to state minister Harsh Sanghavi on Monday. Speaking after inaugurating ‘Empresario’, the annual festival of Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII) […]
The first meeting of the G20 Infrastructure Working Group(IWG) was inaugurated today in Pune in the presence of Union minister for MSME Narayan Rane. He welcomed G20 delegates to Pune and opened the first session of the meeting. He said the Government under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is trying to make India […]
GoFirst, a low-cost airline, announced its first travel sale of the year on Monday, with tickets beginning at Rs 1,199. The airline said its ‘Travel India Travel’ promotion will allow travellers to buy tickets from January 16-19 for flying from February 4 to September 30, 2023. The airline claims that the promotion provides fares for […]
