NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has derostered an air traffic controller at Mumbai Airport following a close shave when an IndiGo aircraft was allowed to land even as an Air India aircraft was taking off from the same runway. The regulator has initiated a probe into this incident.“On June 8, 2024,…
NEW DELHI: The BJP-led NDA govt is set to take oath on Sunday. However, unlike 2014 and 2019, Modi 3.0 will be a coalition government in the true sense. Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP and Nitish Kumar‘s JD(U) will have the keys to the government and may impact several of its decisions.The two regional leaders are veterans…
NEW DELHI: Harking back to the Sengol controversy that erupted last year ahead of the Parliament building inauguration, senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Sunday hit out at the PM-designate Narendra Modi, claiming that “Modi’s pretensions” got rejected by the Tamil electorate in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.“Remember May 28th, 2023? It was the day…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat on Sunday morning. This visit marked the beginning of the day on which Modi is scheduled to be sworn in as the Prime Minister for his third consecutive term.Modi also paid tribute to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee as he reached…
NASHIK: Bodies of the missing Jalgaon cousins, Jia Pinjari (20) and Jishan Pinjari (20), were recovered from Volkhov River in Russia’s Veliky Novgorod city Saturday morning, four days after they were swept away in the fast-flowing waters along with their three friends.All five were from Maharashtra and studied at Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University.Veliky Novgorod is…
NASHIK: Bodies of the missing Jalgaon cousins, Jia Pinjari (20) and Jishan Pinjari (20), were recovered from Volkhov River in Russia’s Veliky Novgorod city Saturday morning, four days after they were swept away in the fast-flowing waters along with their three friends.All five were from Maharashtra and studied at Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University.Veliky Novgorod is…
As India voted to elect its MPs to the 18th Lok Sabha over the past six weeks, sweltering heat blanketed large swathes of the country. May 2024 was the hottest May in 36 years, shows India Meteorological Department (IMD) data.Both April and May this year recorded high maximum temperatures and broke records across multiple stations….
NEW DELHI: Inequality has reduced both in urban and rural areas across the country between 2011-12 and 2022-23, results of the Household Consumption Expenditure survey have shown.The latest data is expected to add to the raging debate over the extent of inequality in the country with some experts saying it had increased while others have…
NEW DELHI: Share of milk and milk products in total consumption was higher in rural areas in Gujarat, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh while eggs, meat and fish accounted for a greater share for households in Kerala.The final Household Consumption Expenditure survey, which was released by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO)…
NEW DELHI: Acknowledging China’s congratulatory message to PM-designate Narendra Modi for his third term, India reminded Beijing of the three mutuals – mutual respect, mutual sensitivity and mutual interest – it has cited repeatedly in recent times for restoring normalcy in bilateral relations.While a message from President Xi Jinping is still awaited, the Chinese foreign…
