NEW DELHI: Just over half the 2,000 plus flights that IndiGo operates daily flew on time Saturday (October 5) when the airline suffered a massive system outage that led to serpentine queues across airports with boarding cards being issued manually. The Union aviation ministry’s data shows the impact the outage had on IndiGo on time…
NEW DELHI: Two foreign women mountaineers, Michelle Theresa Dvorak from the USA and Fay Jane Manners from the United Kingdom, were safely rescued on Sunday morning. The mountaineers were stranded at 6,015 metres while attempting to reach Chaukhamba III peak in Uttarakhand‘s Chamoli district.They were evacuated through a joint operation by the Indian Air Force…
NEW DELHI: Urging young professionals struggling with workplace stress to “speak up”, All India Professionals’ Congress (AIPC) on Saturday launched ‘For Anna For All: Workplace Wellness’ campaign named after Anna Sebastian Perayil, a 26-year-old a CA from Kochi whose alleged death due to extreme work pressure has triggered a nation-wide discussion on workplace stress.The campaign…
CHENNAI: The picturesque East Coast Road in Chennai saw two tragedies Saturday afternoon. First, a 20-year-old woman died in a bike accident. About 30 minutes later, her friend and collegemate, also aged 20, killed himself by jumping in front of a bus, reports Selvaraj A. The deceased were identified as S Yogeshwaran of Uthiramerur and…
NEW DELHI: The flagship ‘Khadi India’ shop in New Delhi registered sales worth over Rs 2 crore on Gandhi Jayanti this year, breaking all previous records and leading Union minister for home and cooperation to laud the achievement as a positive change.In a post on X, Shah said sales recorded by shop in Regal Building…
KASARAGOD: The sessions court in the district acquitted K Surendran, BJP state president, and five others in the Manjeshwar election bribery case on Saturday. Surendran and the other five accused – K Manikanda Rai, BJP Kasaragod secretary, Suresh Naik, Sunil Naik from Yuva Morcha, K Balakrishna Shetty, former BJP district chief, and Lokesh Nonda –…
PANAJI: Bombay high court has quashed an FIR registered against a Mapusa college student after it found that her online comments did not reveal any deliberate or malicious intention of outraging the religious feelings of any community, reports Lisa Monteiro.The FIR was lodged against her in May for allegedly posting and circulating derogatory comments on…
KOLKATA: Junior doctors protesting at Esplanade in Kolkata went on an indefinite hunger strike from Saturday evening after expiry of the 24-hour deadline they had set for Bengal govt to meet their 10-point demands, reports Sumati Yengkhom.Six junior doctors, including three women PGTs, from Medical College Hospital, SSKM, NRS Medical College and other institutes began…
PATNA: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar used his party’s state executive committee meeting Saturday to further consolidate his ties with ally BJP.Addressing the meeting, Nitish, who is JDU national president, not only praised PM Narendra Modi, Union minister Amit Shah and BJP president JP Nadda for financial assistance Bihar got in Union Budget, but also said…
DEHRADUN: A senior BJP functionary in Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand has been charged by local police for “promoting enmity” and “outraging religious feelings” after he allegedly threatened to “burn down shops belonging to members of the minority community and gouge their eyes out for targeting Hindu girls over love jihad.”Lakhpat Bhandari, vice-president of Pauri…
