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[ad_1] NEW DELHI: IndiGo’s nationwide operational crisis intensified on Thursday, with fresh flight cancellations and long delays reported across Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune. This has resulted in leaving lakhs of passengers stranded and triggering widespread anger amongst them. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has summoned the airline’s senior management to its…

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Road deaths in India touched an all time high of little over 1.77 lakh in 2024. Road transport ministry in a written reply to the Lok Sabha shared the number of people killed in road crashes last year, though the ministry is yet to publish the annual report on road accidents.In 2023,…

[ad_1] Chandrashekhar Azad (File photo) NEW DELHI: Defending Samajwadi Party (SP) MP Mohibbullah Nadvi, who used the word “jihad” in Parliament, Aazad Samaj Party (ASP) chief Chandrashekhar Azad on Thursday said the term means the same as “jaddojahad” (struggle/great effort) in Hindi.“Jihad is simply an Arabic term for what we describe in Hindi as ‘jaddojahad’…

[ad_1] Priyanka Gandhi Vadra; PM Narendra Modi NEW DELHI: Asked to comment on the rupee breaching the 90 mark against the US dollar for the first time, Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday recalled Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 2013 jibe at his predecessor, then–PM Manmohan Singh, and told reporters that the question should be…

[ad_1] CHANDIGARH: “The very essence of a welfare state is compromised when the instrumentalities of the state become a source of protracted litigation,” Punjab and Haryana HC observed recently, while reprimanding Punjab govt for its apathy in not absorbing a former worker of Anandpur Sahib Hydel Project for over three decades.Justice Harpreet Singh Brar ordered…

[ad_1] President Droupadi Murmu presents Lt Col C Dwarakesh with the National Award for Persons with Disabilities on Wednesday PUNE: A basketball match at a military station in 2014 was one of the last things Lt Col C Dwarakesh saw before an accident left him blind. He would spend the next eight months in hospital,…

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday came up with a unique solution to allow an advocate to pay for the maintenance of his son from his first marriage after the man expressed his inability to do so, citing his second marriage and limited income.The apex court directed that the advocate be assigned two or…

[ad_1] BENGALURU: A special court for elected representatives in Bengaluru on Tuesday rejected the ‘B report’ — a case-closure report citing insufficient evidence to substantiate the allegations made in a complaint — filed by SIT, stating that there was not enough proof to clear JDS MLC Suraj Revanna of the charges of raping a man.This…

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: India’s green economy could attract $4.1 trillion (Rs 360 lakh crore) in cumulative investments and create 48 million (4.8 crore) ‘full-time equivalent’ (FTE) jobs by 2047, an independent study released by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) said.The analysis also projects that India could unlock a $1.1 trillion (Rs 97.7…

[ad_1] No proposal to create an Indian Education Service, says CentreThe Centre has ruled out any proposal to create an Indian Education Service (IES) for appointments to key leadership positions in higher education institutions, including chancellors, vice-chancellors, pro-chancellors and registrars.Responding to a written question in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, MoS for education Sukanta Majumdar said…