NEW DELHI: IndiGo passenger woes at Istanbul continue unabated in peak travel season. A Turkish Airlines wide-body Boeing 777 wet-leased (hired with operating crew) by IndiGo to operate to Delhi on Friday at 8.15pm developed a snag and the flight was cancelled. That left about 400 passengers stranded at the airport, with many complaining of…
Railways halts razing of unauthorised temples MUMBAI: Central Railway (CR) on Saturday stayed demolition of five unauthorised temples outside Dadar station amid escalating opposition from Sena UBT, later leading to protests from BJP members as well.Sena UBT criticised the demolition notices soon after they were issued on December 4. On Friday, party chief Uddhav Thackeray…
NEW DELHI: Seeking to corner BJP during a discussion on Constitution in Parliament, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said the saffron party’s “supreme leader” – V D Savarkar – had called ‘Manusmriti‘ better than the Constitution and asked if BJP wasn’t mocking him by praising Ambedkar and the Constitution.Rahul invoked the legend of Eklavya…
NEW DELHI: In another significant action, Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday said it restituted properties worth Rs 4,025 crore to JSW, a successful resolution applicant of the erstwhile Bhushan Power and Steel Ltd, under corporate insolvency resolution process of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code.The assets were attached by ED in 2019 after a money laundering probe…
BHUBANESHWAR: With tigress Zeenat moving another 5km towards Odisha on Saturday, forest department officers tracking the big cat’s movement in Rajabasa under Chakulia forest division in Jharkhand are hopeful of its return to Odisha.According to the officers, the tigress is 15km away from the Odisha border. “It will be a significant indicator of its return…
Allu Arjun walks out of Hyderabad central jail HYDERABAD: Telugu superstar Allu Arjun was released from Chanchalguda prison in Hyderabad early Saturday after spending a tense night behind bars, despite being granted interim bail by Telangana high court in connection with a stampede at Sandhya Theatre during the premiere of his film Pushpa 2 on…
GUWAHATI: An accused in last month’s gang rape case in Guwahati was arrested from Dhubri district on Friday night. Krishna Barman (22), who had gone into hiding after the crime, was apprehended night after his location was tracked through technical surveillance.Barman is the ninth person to be arrested in the case. Police said two of…
NEW DELHI: In the proposed bills on ‘one nation one election‘, to be tabled in Lok Sabha Monday, the government has argued that there is an imperative need for holding simultaneous elections for various reasons as polls have become expensive and time-consuming.In the Constitution (129th) Amendment Bill, 2024, the government has stated that imposition of…
Representative image (Picture credit: PTI) A shooting spree near France’s Dunkirk, left five people dead on Saturday, including two migrants and two security guards, according to reports. The suspect, a 22-year-old man who later turned himself in, admitted to the killings, which unfolded in the towns of Wormhout and Loon-Plage. The violence began in Wormhout…
NEW DELHI: Parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju on Saturday took on the opposition over claims about alleged suppression of minorities and cautioned against words and actions that could diminish the image of the country.Rijiju, who is also minority affairs minister, said India was way ahead of developed nations as it has equal voting rights for…
