New 24-hour Indian Railways train ticket refund scheme, Vande Bharat sleeper, launch of final stretch of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramula Rail Link project, a “super app” for railway passengers and the India’s first vertical lift railway bridge – these are just some of the things that the Ministry of Railways is proposing as part of its 100-day…
HARIDWAR/DEHRADUN: The main accused in the murder of Baba Tarsem Singh was shot dead in an encounter with the Uttarakhand Special Task Force (STF) in the Bhagwanpur area of Haridwar in the early hours of Tuesday.Amarjit Singh alias Bittu, a shooter with Rs 1 lakh bounty on his head, was killed while his accomplice fled,…
Ugadi, also known as Yugadi, is a significant festival celebrated in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, and Maharashtra, marking the beginning of a new lunar year. It is observed with much fervour and enthusiasm, as it symbolises new beginnings, prosperity, and joy.Just like every faith has a number of festivals which they observe…
Tesla has settled a lawsuit over a 2018 car crash that killed an Apple engineer after his Model X, operating on Autopilot, swerved off a highway near San Francisco, court documents showed on Monday. The settlement was made on the eve of the trial over the high-profile accident involving Tesla’s driver assistant technology. Tesla faces…
NEW YORK: A New York state appellate judge on Monday denied Donald Trump‘s bid to delay his April 15 criminal trial on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star while the former U.S. president seeks to move the case out of Manhattan. Associate Justice Lizbeth Gonzalez issued her decision shortly after a…
JERUSALEM: Israel for the first time deployed its ship-mounted defence system, called the C-Dome, against a “suspicious” target that entered the country’s airspace near the southern city of Eilat, the military said Tuesday.The C-Dome is a naval version of the Iron Dome air defence system used to shield against rocket and missile attacks.On Monday evening,…
Chaitra Navratri is one of the major Hindu festivals which is widely celebrated by devotees across the world. This festival is celebrated in the month of Chaitra, as per the Hindu calendar, and hence named so. Meanwhile, Navratri is made up of two Hindi words– Nav meaning nine, and Ratri meaning nights. Hence, Navratri is…
Chennai South, which includes the IT corridor called OMR, the commercial district of T Nagar and the cultural hub of Mylapore, is a ‘rockstar constituency’. It’s also a seat of prestige for DMK, which has fielded sitting MP Thamizhachi Thangapandian against BJP’s Tamilisai Soundararajan, who was the governor of Telangana and lieutenant governor of Puducherry.ADMK…
Chennai South, which includes the IT corridor called OMR, the commercial district of T Nagar and the cultural hub of Mylapore, is a ‘rockstar constituency’. It’s also a seat of prestige for DMK, which has fielded sitting MP Thamizhachi Thangapandian against BJP’s Tamilisai Soundararajan, who was the governor of Telangana and lieutenant governor of Puducherry.ADMK…
B JP has won not more than seven of the 42 seats in any of the 10 Lok Sabha elections held in Andhra Pradesh-Telangana since the party was formed in 1980. While it drew nil results in 1989, 1996, 2004 and 2009 Lok Sabha elections, the party sprang a surprise only once by winning seven…
