NEW DELHI: It’s not good news for companies, such as Maruti Suzuki, Toyota and Honda. G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant on Tuesday said that large duty deferential between electrics and hybrids should be maintained as the country should incentive zero-emission technologies to maintain the push towards green mobility.Speaking at an event organised by Mercedes-Benz Research and…
Image used for representative purpose only NAMMAKAL: Unidentified miscreants placed human excreta on the lock of the kitchen door of a govt primary school at Ambedkar Nagar in Erumapatty panchayat on Monday. They had smeared a nearby wall with excreta as well. The incident came to light around 9am when the cook and other teachers…
GUWAHATI: Central and state forces deployed in the cauldron of Manipur’s 16-month-long ethnic conflict are looking askance at the skies that harbour a new threat – drones used by suspected tribal militants to bomb targets – and awaiting NSG’s expertise to win the aerial battle bef-ore it gets out of hand.“This adds another dimension to…
CHENNAI: Union minister Shobha Karandlaje in an affidavit on Tuesday apologised to the people of Tamil Nadu for her remark that people involved in the Rameshwaram Cafe blast in Bengaluru were trained in Tamil Nadu. “I state that the alleged comment made by me about the people of Tamil Nadu while addressing media about the…
CHENNAI: Union minister Shobha Karandlaje in an affidavit on Tuesday apologised to the people of Tamil Nadu for her remark that people involved in the Rameshwaram Cafe blast in Bengaluru were trained in Tamil Nadu. “I state that the alleged comment made by me about the people of Tamil Nadu while addressing media about the…
KOCHI: Kerala police on Tuesday filed an FIR against popular Malayalam actor Nivin Pauly, a film producer and four others, including a woman, invoking gang-rape and other charges following a complaint lodged by the survivor who alleged that she was sexually abused in Dubai multiple times between Nov 1 and Dec 15 last year.The survivor…
KOLKATA: The Calcutta high court‘s circuit bench at Jalpaiguri took exception to the use of a “colonial era expression” by a lawyer while making a submission.A division bench of justices Harish Tandon and Apurba Sinha Ray was hearing a petition on Monday, when the lawyer representing one of the parties started his submission by saying,…
LUCKNOW: A five-year-old girl sleeping in her house in Girdharpurwa village of Uttar Pradesh‘s Bahraich district was injured in a wolf attack early Tuesday, a day after wolves killed a two-and-a-half-year-old girl and injured two women in back-to-back strikes in less than 24 hours Monday.This was the third wolf attack in the region in the…
NEW DELHI: On the CBI‘s allegation that a detailed order passed by a Madras high court judge in a corruption case in 2017 was made available only after he had demitted office, the Supreme Court directed the high court’s registrar general on Tuesday to submit a report detailing the date on which the judgment was…
NEW DELHI: India achieved its best ever medal haul in the Paralympics, surpassing the previous edition’s tally, thanks to an outstanding performance by its track and field athletes in Paris on Tuesday. India’s medal count rose to 20, including 3 golds, 7 silvers, and 10 bronzes, breaking the previous record of 19 medals set at…
