NAGPUR: As the flash of guns light up the Russia-Ukraine war front and rockets fly in West Asia, cash registers are ringing at explosives manufacturing units in Nagpur, more than 4,500 km from the battle zones. The city is already informally known as India’s explosives capital where representatives of global arms corporations window-shop along a…
NEW DELHI: At a time when social media is being misused for posting and circulating fake and defamatory messages, Supreme Court sent a clear signal that one has to pay the price for indulging in such activity and directed ex-chancellor of Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU), Firoz Bakht Ahmed, to publish an unconditional apology…
Trouble had a way of finding me, writes retired wrestler Sakshi Malik in her memoir, ‘Witness’. It found her at age 19 when fresh from winning gold at 2012 Asian Junior Championship at Kazakhstan’s Almaty, Malik faced what she describes as one of the most traumatic experiences of her life.In the autobiography, Malik, who became…
West Bengal Chief minister Mamata Banerjee KOLKATA: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee made a surprise phone call to fasting junior doctors on Saturday afternoon and set up a meeting with them for Monday in yet another stab at restoring normalcy in the state health sector.The nearly one hour interaction – on state chief secretary Manoj…
MUMBAI: Police probing the murder of former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique said the wanted accused Mohammed Zeeshan Akhtar is emerging as the key link between the shooters and the main conspirators. He is the one who had reportedly been operating around 10 different bank accounts, and sent money to the suspects’ bank accounts.“Akhtar (29) and…
Eight flights to and from Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport received bomb threats on social media over the weekend. Security checks found nothing suspicious. Six were international flights and two were domestic. NEW DELHI: Eight flights to and from Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi received bomb threats on social media on Saturday. An airport…
MUMBAI: In a move set to benefit passengers boarding international flights, including those to and from India, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has announced significant increases in compensation limits payable by airlines in cases of death, injury, flight delay, and baggage and cargo issues.The revised upper limit for compensation payable under the Montreal Convention…
NEW DELHI: The civil aviation ministry, concerned over the recent string of hoax threats about bombs on flights, is taking a fresh look at old suggestions of the Bureau of Civil Aviation and Security (BCAS) such as putting individuals behind hoax threats on ‘no-fly’ list for five years and revisiting the Aircraft Act, 1934 –…
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The aviation sector faced an unprecedented wave of hoax bomb threats Saturday, with 30 to 40 flights across Indian carriers and five Delta Air Lines flights being targeted. This marks the highest number of threats in a single day, adding to the disruption the industry has endured over the week since Monday.The hoaxes…
HARIDWAR: The Haridwar district administration demolished a mazar, allegedly constructed illegally about 15-20 years ago in Mirpur village, on Saturday. The structure was on the right bank of Gang Nahar (Upper Ganga Canal), about 15km from the district headquarters. Officials said a demolition notice was issued in March.Former head of Mirpur gram panchayat, Rao Zubair,…
