NEW DELHI: Delhi government suffered a revenue loss of more than Rs 2,000 crore in implementing the contentious Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) revealed in a report that was tabled in Delhi assembly on Tuesday. The policy was withdrawn after nine months following registration of a case by CBI in…
File photo of Sajjan Kumar (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: A Delhi court Tuesday awarded two life terms to Congress ex-MP Sajjan Kumar (80) for murdering a Sikh man and his son during the anti-Sikh riots in Nov 1984. The court said the offences committed were “undoubtedly brutal and reprehensible”.The two life terms – one…
PRAYAGRAJ/VARANASI: The city of Prayagraj became the spiritual epicentre for 45 days, welcoming more than 64 crore people in a colossal pilgrimage. Now, as Maha Kumbh draws to a close after Wednesday’s Maha Shivratri snan, the sacred hum of prayers will fade. The makeshift settlements along Triveni Sangam will be dismantled. The city will slowly…
NEW DELHI: In a rare surgical procedure, doctors at AIIMS successfully conducted a procedure to separate a ‘parasitic twin’ weighing 15 kg from a 17-year-old boy hailing from UP’s Unnao district. The occurrence of conjoined twins is notably uncommon, with frequencies of 1 in 50,000 to 100,000 births. In certain instances, incomplete development results in…
NEW DELHI: Holding that the evidence of a child witness stands on the same footing as any other witness if the child is competent to testify, Supreme Court has convicted and sentenced a man to life imprisonment for killing his wife by relying upon the statement of the couple’s seven-year-old daughter who witnessed the incident.A…
File photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit, in Kazan. (Pic credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: Sino-Indian ties are set for a reboot, following the Modi-Xi meeting in Kazan last year and the subsequent visits to Beijing by NSA Ajit Doval…
NEW DELHI: Reaffirming India’s unwavering commitment to human rights, foreign minister S Jaishankar said on Tuesday that India will always advocate zero tolerance for terrorism and call out any effort to normalise it.Addressing 58th session of UNHCR, he said India has always played an active role in global promotion and protection of human rights.“Our approach…
MUMBAI: In a striking reversal of roles, campuses across India will send engineering faculty into factories, boardrooms and laboratories of the industries they prepare their students to join. For a full year, faculty will trade lectures for deadlines, syllabi for budgets, and the structured rhythms of academia for the relentless pace of the private sector….
NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday called upon Indian coast guard to be alert to emerging unconventional threats from cyber attacks, data breach and radar disruption, in addition to conventional warfare.“India is surrounded by sea on three sides and its coastline is vast. The nation’s strategic security faces two types of threats: the…
DOMALAPENTA (NAGARKURNOOL): Four days into the rescue operations at the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) tunnel collapse site, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams on Tuesday finally reached the last point of the collapsed roof, where the eight workers were trapped since Feb 22 morning. Until Monday, the rescue teams could not reach the…
