CHENNAI: Nearly 120 Samsung Electronics employees were detained by the Tamil Nadu police on Monday for attempting to march to the district collector’s office in Kanchipuram, near Chennai, to demand union recognition, wage revision talks and better working hours. Workers at the company’s Sunguvarchatram plant have formed the Samsung India Employees Union and tried to…
MUMBAI: The new external members of RBI‘s monetary policy committee, who are likely to be appointed by govt this month, are set to face new risks to growth – evident in macroeconomic numbers.RBI governor Shaktikanta Das noted some external risks to growth in a recent speech at a Bretton Woods event in Singapore. Besides Das,…
MUMBAI: Refuting Gaurishankar Kalyani’s claims on their late mother Sulochana Kalyani’s will, Baba Kalyani, the chairman of Bharat Forge, said Monday that the will was made when Sulochana was staying with Gaurishankar and his family at their residence— Parvti Niwas—, in Pune.Gaurishankar had alleged that Baba coerced their mother into making a will in his…
NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Monday announced the Centre’s decision to provide commodities at reasonable prices to the common people of strife-hit Manipur through its Kendriya Police Kalyan Bhandar outlets, starting Tuesday.“In line with PM Shri @narendramodi Ji’s commitment, the MHA is launching an initiative to provide commodities to the people of Manipur…
ANANTNAG: Often celebrated as the “Land of Poets”, the air in Dooru seems thick with the echoes of classical Persian and Kashmiri verses. Among the poets and storytellers, Saadat Hasan Manto had roots in this pretty town cradled by the towering Pir Panjal range in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district.Dooru is currently drawing attention not for…
JAMMU/SRINAGAR: Attempts are being made to revive the tumult of the 90s in J&K, but the Narendra Modi government will bury terrorism so deep that it never rears its head again, home minister Amit Shah said Monday at a campaign rally in Kishtwar district of Jammu division.He urged voters to hand the National Conference-Congress combine…
LUCKNOW: In the wee hours of Monday, Delhi bound Swatantrata Senani Express’s (12561) loco-engine suffered failure, after it hit a wooden log lying on rail track between Ghazipur Ghat and Ghazipur City railway station. The log was dragged for nearly half-a-km, before the express came to a halt. The train was cruising at 100kmph, and…
LUCKNOW: In the wee hours of Monday, Delhi bound Swatantrata Senani Express’s (12561) loco-engine suffered failure, after it hit a wooden log lying on rail track between Ghazipur Ghat and Ghazipur City railway station. The log was dragged for nearly half-a-km, before the express came to a halt. The train was cruising at 100kmph, and…
JAMMU: A joint team of security forces intensified search operations across Jammu region Monday, especially in Kathua’s Bani and Poonch’s Pathanateer areas, to track down terrorists a day after back-to-back shootouts in J&K, less than a week before the first phase of polling for assembly elections on Sept 18. No fresh contact, however, was established,…
NEW DELHI: The BAPS Swaminarayan Temple in New York’s Melville was vandalised on Monday. The Indian consulate in New York expressed strong disapproval of the act, labelling it “unacceptable.” In response, the consulate has been in close contact with the local Indian-American community and has urged US law enforcement agencies to take swift action against…
