NEW DELHI: The govt has received over 6.2 lakh applications under the PM Internship Scheme for around 1.3 lakh opportunities, Lok Sabha was informed on Monday.After announcing the scheme in the last budget, the govt launched its pilot project in Oct. The first set of letters were to be handed over this week, but the…
US President-elect Donald Trump picked businessman Warren Stephens as ambassador to the United Kingdom on Monday (US time).“I am pleased to announce that Warren A Stephens, one of the most successful businessmen in the Country, has been nominated to serve as the United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s, a role in which…
NEW DELHI: Ahead of the crucial GST Council meeting in three weeks, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman told Parliament on Monday that policyholders stand gain from a reduction in levies, which is being discussed by the ministerial panel.“As the GST rates are applicable over and above the insurance premium, if the GST rate is reduced, it…
MUMBAI: The rupee fell to a record low of 84.73 against the dollar on Monday, weakening 0.2% for its worst single-day decline since June 4. It touched an intraday low of 84.73 before closing at 84.70 – 14 paise weaker than Friday’s close. This was driven by strong dollar demand in the non-deliverable forward (NDF)…
PUNE: Markadwadi in Solapur, Maharashtra, where most voters are MVA supporters, will go to polls again, though unofficially, on Tuesday, this time using ballot papers to challenge EC’s data. Markadwadi falls under Malshiras assembly constituency in Solapur, where NCP (SP)’s Uttamrao Jankar defeated BJP’s former MLA Ram Satpute. Jankar won, but his MVA supporters from…
NEW DELHI: Pakistan is choosing weapons over the welfare of its people despite its precarious economic condition, Admiral Dinesh Tripathi said on Monday, adding that India is tweaking its operational plans and strategy to tackle the expanding collusiveness between Islamabad and Beijing in the maritime domain after the land borders.“We are keeping a watch on…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday took strong exception to bureaucrats’ wives enjoying posts in societies functioning within the administrative jurisdictions of their husbands and said such practices, a product of colonial mindset, must be forthwith discarded.What irked a bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan was the vindictive action indirectly taken by the…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday took strong exception to bureaucrats’ wives enjoying posts in societies functioning within the administrative jurisdictions of their husbands and said such practices, a product of colonial mindset, must be forthwith discarded.What irked a bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan was the vindictive action indirectly taken by the…
DEHRADUN: National Green Tribunal (NGT), taking suo-motu cognisance of a media report earlier this year which indicated loss of forest cover up to 23 lakh hectares (ha) in the country since 2000, has directed Forest Survey of India (FSI), headquartered in Dehradun, to provide a comprehensive report on the matter.NGT, in an ongoing hearing of…
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee (PTI file photo) KOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee urged the Union govt Monday “to request the United Nations to deploy a peacekeeping force in Bangladesh” amid reports of attacks on minorities, particularly Hindus. She sought PM Narendra Modi’s “intervention” to ensure safe return of persecuted Indians from the neighbouring country.Banerjee…
