Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah (File Image) NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday sought a report on the fashion show in the ski resort of Gulmarg during the fasting month of Ramzan that received widespread criticism. Expressing disapproval to the pictures, the CM said that the images he…
Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) President Uddhav Thackeray addresses party workers’ rally in the view of upcoming municipal elections, at Mulund, in Mumbai. (PTI Photo) Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party for creating division and poisoning society. He urged his followers to counter ‘Jai Shri Ram‘ with ‘Jai Shivaji‘…
NEW DELHI: Vanuatu Prime Minister Jotham Napat on Monday directed the cancellation of the Vanuatu passport issued to fugitive businessman Lalit Modi after recent international media reports.“I have instructed the citizenship commission to immediately begin proceedings to cancel Lalit Modi’s Vanuatu passport,” Napat said. “While all standard background checks, including Interpol screenings, conducted during his…
NEW DELHI: An Air India aircraft en route from Chicago to Delhi had to return to Chicago after flying for more than ten hours on Thursday due to technical issues.However, according to PTI sources, the flight had to return because numerous toilets were non-functional.According to flightradar24.com, the Boeing 777-337 ER aircraft returned to Chicago’s ORD…
Despite the National Medical Commission (NMC) deciding in September last year that not only doctors, but patients too can appeal to the Ethics and Medical Registration Board (EMRB) against decisions of state medical councils, on February 21 the EMRB rejected the appeal of a patient from Punjab.Incidentally, the EMRB is totally vacant since the tenure…
GRANT A WISH: (From left) Piramal Foundation’s Shraddha Mishra with MNREGA worker Suman, her daughter Ronak and batchmate Kajal (in school uniform) That cold morning on December 6, there was a quiet buzz at Hameeri Kalan Senior Secondary School in Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan. For the students, teachers, and parents gathered there, it wasn’t an ordinary day….
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman (File photo) NEW DELHI: The budget session of Parliament resumes on Monday in the shadow of a spate of controversies along the ‘opposition vs government’ battleline, ranging from Trump’s comments on tariffs, duplicate voter identity card numbers, three-language policy and delimitation, amid indications that the non-budget issues may set off fireworks.Adding…
VIZIANAGARAM: A TDP Lok Sabha member from Andhra Pradesh has pledged to dole out Rs 50,000 for every third child who turns out to be a baby girl in his constituency.Vizianagaram MP K Appala Naidu said he will deposit the money in favour of the newborn girl child in the form of a fixed deposit,…
JABALPUR: Two girls drowned in a canal and a third is missing, feared dead, in MP’s Katni district.The missing girl, an eight-year-old, may have jumped into the water to save the other two girls, one of whom was her elder sister, say police.Four girls — Siddhi Patel, 12, her sister Manvi, 8, and their friends…
Majithia and 6 other SAD functionaries had condemned SGPC’s move to sack jathedars of Akal Takht & Takht Keshgarh Sahib CHANDIGARH: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) announced Sunday a crackdown on “indiscipline” within the organisation and drafted show-cause notices to Bikram Singh Majithia, brother-in-law of ex-party chief Sukhbir Singh Badal, and all other functionaries who made…
