KOLKATA: Yellow taxis are here to stay in Kolkata, but the future may not be Ambassador. State govt has allowed all light commercial vehicles with taxi permits to be painted yellow, in a move aimed at preserving the cultural identity of an iconic mode of city transport. A ‘light commercial vehicle’, as per road rules,…
KOLKATA: Father of Shariful Fakir, the illegal Bangladeshi immigrant arrested by Mumbai police for allegedly stabbing actor Saif Ali Khan during a burglary attempt at his Bandra home, claimed that police have framed his son. He said Shariful is not the person shown in the video from the initial CCTV footage released the day after…
NEW DELHI: Amid signs of improvement in ties with China, India Thursday announced that foreign secretary Vikram Misri will visit Beijing on Jan 26-27 for a meeting of the foreign secretary-vice minister mechanism between the two countries.This will be the second high-level visit from India after NSA Ajit Doval travelled to Beijing last month for…
NEW DELHI/JAMMU: The mystery illness and deaths of as many as 17 people in Jammu & Kashmir’s Rajouri district could be due to toxins (poisonous substances).Union minister Jitendra Singh, who was in Kathua to inaugurate a bridge, confirmed this on Thursday, while adding that investigation is on to identify the type of toxin. “Initial investigations…
NEW DELHI: With a sizeable percentage of 1.5 million advocates in India feared to be fake, the Supreme Court Thursday expressed serious concerns over the delay in weeding out imposters who dupe gullible litigants and asked Bar Council of India (BCI) to file a status report on the verification drive it had undertaken over nine…
New Delhi: India has moved a step closer to finalising the long-pending mega project to acquire six new diesel-electric submarines for the Navy, with the opening of the commercial bid submitted by the Mumbai-based Mazagon Docks (MDL) in partnership with German company ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS). The defence ministry will now begin techno-commercial negotiations with…
After JPC had announced its earlier schedule, opposition MPs, represented by DMK’s A Raja, shot off a protest letter to panel chairman Jagdambika Pal (above) raising the issue. NEW DELHI: The JPC on Waqf Amendment Bill has modified the earlier announced schedule, and will now meet on Friday to hear Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and lawyers,…
AHMEDABAD: The Narendra Modi govt has accomplished almost all the “ideological tasks” on its to-do list for the first decade in office, including removing the “hesitation” many Hindus had in wearing their civilisational identity with pride, home minister Amit Shah said on Thursday at an event in Ahmedabad.He listed the nullification of Article 370 that…
JAIPUR: The Department of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has busted an international narcotics racket by arresting two persons, including a woman passenger, who flew to Jaipur from Bangkok with hydroponic weed. During inspection at the Jaipur airport, DRI officials discovered 3.7 kg of the substance, estimated at Rs 3.7 crore in international markets.DRI officials Thursday confirmed…
NASHIK/PUNE: Birth and death certificates applied for a year or more past the relevant dates won’t be issued in Maharashtra till the system undergoes a hygiene check, Mahayuti govt has notified amid a row over suspected illegal Bangladeshi and Rohingya immigrants fraudulently obtaining such documents in parts of the state.Top revenue officials told TOI that…
