Preliminary investigations into the Kozhikode air crash on Friday that killed 18 passengers, including the pilot and co-pilot, and injured many suggest that the weather conditions were poor, the plane overshot the runway and it hit a rock before sliding into a gorge.
The N. Biren Singh-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Manipur won the confidence motion by a voice vote on Monday in a major embarrassment for the Opposition Congress whose eight legislators abstained from voting defying whip.
As the Enforcement Directorate (ED) began a fresh round of questioning of actor Rhea Chakraborty and her family members in connection with its probe in a money laundering case linked to the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, Rhea has moved the Supr...
After DMK Lok Sabha member Kanimozhi alleged that a CISF official asked her if she was an Indian as she could not speak Hindi, senior Congress leader and former Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday (August 10) said he had also experienced similar...
Former civil servant Shah Faesal has stepped down as the president of Jammu and Kashmir People's Movement, which he had floated last year. The party's vice-president Feroze Peerzada has been appointed as the interim chief till formal elections are held for the post.
The Railways has extended the cancellation of regular mail, express, passenger and suburban train services until September 30. However, special mail and express trains will continue to run.
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Even as investigating agencies are trying to sniff out the reasons that may have caused the Air India Express flight to have crashed at the Kozhikode airport, Director General of Civil Aviation Arun Kumar has said that the pilots were warned about th...
While the COVID-19 lockdown was a morose affair for most, illegal drug users continued to live a high life, albeit at a higher cost. Unlike normal times, it became extremely difficult to get the contraband or to transport it, especially during the intense lockdown in June, but some who managed to do, charged a hefty amount from their clientele. Between June 19 and 30, Chennai Air Customs seized at least three such parcels that arrived at the Foreign Post Office that contained different variants of ecstasy and MDMA crystals. Click here to know more.
Amaravati: Firemen could rescue 32 people from the star hotel-turned-coronavirus treatment facility at Vijaywada that went up in flames early Sunday morning. Ten COVID-19 patients died in the blaze suspected to have been caused by a short circuit, the government said.
Hyderabad: If any government talks about constructing a hospital in the time of pandemic, it should not come as a surprise. But, demolishing an existing hospital, amidst a deepening public health crisis, is not what one expects from any government.
New Delhi: Union minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday cautioned sellers from pushing poor quality goods or charging exorbitant prices on the government e-marketplace (GeM), saying that they will not be blacklisted from the portal and also from the entire government ecosystem.
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd has a 15-year vision to build itself as a new energy company that aims to recycle CO2, create value from plastic waste and has an optimal mix of clean and affordable energy, analysts said.
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New Delhi: Despite several businesses remaining closed during the lockdown, 81 per cent of micro enterprises which took part in a poll are confident of recovery post COVID-19, while 57 per cent reported not having any cash reserves to survive, according to a survey.
Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani is now the world’s fourth-richest person. He is now worth $80.6 billion, more than Europe’s wealthiest man Bernard Arnault, reported Bloomberg. The Reliance India Ltd chairman overtook Arnault of France after amassing $22 billion this year.
At a time when businesses are struggling to sustain, a few big corporates have succeeded in raising money for expansion by way of Qualified Institutional Placement (QIP).
Eight big corporate houses, including banks, have collectively raised mor...
New Delhi: Reliance Industries is said to be in talks to acquire Future Retail. In a clarification issued to the stock exchanges last week, Future Retail did not explicitly deny news reports that Reliance was in talks to acquire the assets.
New Delhi: The government on Tuesday said any entity with a net worth of at least ₹500 crore is eligible for obtaining the liberalized licence to sell petrol and diesel to retail and bulk consumers.
Kolkata: The Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) Ltd, the country’s largest fuel retailer, on Friday reported almost a 50 per cent drop in net profit for the first quarter of the current fiscal as the lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic dropped the fuel demand.
Baba Ramdev's Patanjali Ayurved is considering to bid for the title sponsorship of the upcoming Indian Premier League, according to a company official. The slot of the title sponsorship of IPL was vacated after the Chinese handset maker Vivo decided to exit from it.
New Delhi: BCCI President Sourav Ganguly has described the suspension of the IPL title sponsorship deal with Chinese mobile phone company Vivo as just a "blip", dismissing talk that it might lead to a "financial crisis".
An "in principle" government approval has come for the BCCI to take the IPL to the UAE this year and the eight franchises have started their preparations by initiating quarantine and COVID-19 testing protocols for their players and support staff.
New Delhi: China-based technology firm Vivo has pulled out from being this year’s Indian Premier League’s (IPL's) title sponsor following backlash on social media amid escalating tensions between India and China.
The eagerly-awaited Indian Premier League (IPL) will start on September 19 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with the finals slated for November 8, IPL Chairman Brijesh Patel said on Friday (July 24).
Chinese fighter jets flew over the Taiwan Strait on Monday during the visit of a high-ranking US official to offer its strong support to the island nation.
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Sri Lanka on Monday fully reopened schools after keeping them closed for over four months due to the lockdown imposed in the country to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
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London: A pair of gold-plated spectacles believed to have been worn by Mahatma Gandhi and presented as a gift in the 1900s have emerged on the UK auction circuit, estimated to fetch between 10,000 pounds and 15,000 pounds.
Sri Lanka's former president Mahinda Rajapaka was sworn in on Sunday (Aug 9) as the country's new Prime Minister at a historic Buddhist temple, days after his party won a landslide...
New Delhi: In its latest guidelines on disposal of COVID-19 waste, pollution watchdog CPCB has directed that masks and gloves used by everyone, whether infected or not, should be cut and kept in paper bags for minimum 72 hours before disposing of them.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), testing is the key to combat the novel coronavirus. However, with a massive, dense population in a country like India, testing in large numbers is impractical and not entirely affordable.
Mumbai: The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has told the Bombay High Court that a decision to declare sanitary napkins as an essential commodity can be taken only after following the due process.
New Delhi: The Union cabinet on Wednesday approved the new National Education Policy (NEP) and the renaming of the HRD ministry to education ministry. The policy, framed in 1986, was last revised in 1992.
Teachers worry that the quality of education is the biggest casualty of online teaching, besides that some children have begun losing interest in studies. They fear, this may further drive down the already-low literacy rates in the state, which currently stands at 76.6 per cent.
New Delhi: After dropping the Class 12 marks criteria for admissions in IITs, the Centre has decided to follow the same for National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and all Centrally Funded Technical Institutions (CFTIs).
Mumbai: The Shiv Sena's youth wing Yuva Sena, headed by Maharashtra cabinet minister Aaditya Thackeray, has moved the Supreme Court seeking cancellation of the final year exams of universities across states in view of the COVID-19 crisis.
New Delhi: The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are considering reduction of the exam syllabus for the JEE Advanced and changing the entrance exam format for the upcoming test.
