NEW DELHI: Hopes of Jet Airways getting fresh wings crashed on Thursday as the Supreme Court ordered its liquidation, with the successful bidder – Jalan Kalrock Consortium – failing to deposit even the first tranche of Rs 350 crore of the Rs 4,783 crore resolution plan for years, thereby burdening SBI-led lenders with huge financial…
NEW DELHI: With stubble burning likely to peak in the next few days, the environment ministry has doubled the penalty for burning paddy crop residue by farmers. The revised fines range from Rs 5,000 to Rs 30,000 per incidence, depending on the size of the offender’s farm.The revised penalty will be imposed on violators with…
MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: India called out Canada for what it described as Ottawa’s “hypocrisy” on freedom of speech in blocking a publication based in Australia – Australia Today – that highlighted foreign minister S Jaishankar’s remarks against Canada this week in Canberra. The govt also said Canada had not…
NEW DELHI: IAF, Navy and Coast Guard have initiated the process to scrap their agreements with cab aggregator Uber as a precautionary step after some cyber security experts red-flagged the risks of potential data exposure and location tracking of military personnel and their families using the service. IAF on Oct 18 signed an agreement with…
NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi dubbed Devendra Fadnavis’s controversial comments about his brandishing a copy of the Constitution at a Nagpur convention an ‘insult’ to Ambedkar, and said the people of Maharashtra will avenge BJP’s ‘attack’ on the Constitution.In a post across social media platforms with hashtag #SamvidhanVirodhiBhajpa, Rahul said, “BJP’s former chief minister of Maharashtra…
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre commented on the election results. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the election result which saw Democrats decimated was partly the result of “global headwinds” that are going against all incumbent leaders around the world. “Despite all of the accomplishments that we were able to get done, there…
NEW DELHI: The home ministry is working on a national counter-terror policy and strategy – likely to pitch for a uniform, cohesive and zero-tolerance approach among various central and state agencies – and shall unveil it in 2025 as the next big step towards dismantling the entire terror ecosystem, home minister Amit Shah shared on…
NEW DELHI: Giving a legal cloak to the age-old norm ‘rules of the game can’t be changed mid-way’, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the eligibility criteria for govt jobs cannot be altered after advertising vacancies, and also said that transparency and non-discrimination are inflexible features of public recruitment.A bench of Chief Justice D…
JAIPUR: The national tiger conservation authority (NTCA) has asked the wildlife crime control bureau (WCCB) to gather intelligence on the disappearance of 25 tigers from Ranthambore Tiger Reserve (RTR) in Rajasthan.The move follows an order issued on Nov 4 by chief wildlife warden Pavan Kumar Upadhyay regarding the missing tigers. Upadhyay’s order cited an internal…
NEW DELHI: Amid reports of violence in Bangladesh’s port city of Chittagong over a controversial social media post, India urged the interim govt in Dhaka to act against extremist elements and ensure the safety of Hindus.According to an agency report, a local Muslim youth uploaded a post on Facebook that sought a ban on ISKCON,…
