NEW DELHI: Two Air India flights bound for the UK were diverted due to adverse weather conditions, forcing one aircraft to divert and another to delay landing, the airline said on Thursday.Flight AI131 operating from Mumbai to London Heathrow was diverted to London Gatwick on 9 January after poor weather conditions made landing at Heathrow…
AIADMK leader Edappadi K Palaniswami NEW DELHI: Pushing for expansion of NDA in Tamil Nadu, BJP is crafting a high-pitched campaign to position the alliance as a natural choice for anti-DMK voters amid emergence of actor Vijay-led TVK as the third force in the state’s traditionally bipolar politics.AIADMK leader Edappadi K Palaniswami’s meeting with home…
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor (PTI file photo) NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader and MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday once again appeared to strike a balanced tone. While expressing respect for the country’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and calling him the founder of Indian democracy, Tharoor also said it was necessary to acknowledge Nehru’s…
NEW DELHI: Several Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders, including MPs Mahua Moitra and Derek O’Brien, were detained by Delhi police on Friday while protesting outside Union home minister Amit Shah’s residence and office. The protest was staged against the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids conducted at the office of the political consultancy firm I-PAC in Kolkata on…
JAIPUR: Rajasthan’s anticorruption bureau (ACB) Thursday registered a case in an alleged Rs 2,000-crore scam linked to state govt’s midday meal scheme during the Covid-19 pandemic.ACB officers said the FIR names 21 accused, including officials of Rajasthan State Cooperative Consumer Federation Ltd (Confed), representatives of private firms and suppliers, who have been booked on charges…
BENGALURU: Neighbours cannot be casually dragged into dowry harassment cases, Karnataka high court has held, quashing criminal proceedings against a Bengaluru woman caught in a matrimonial dispute between a couple in her neighbourhood.“A stranger cannot be drawn into the proceedings for offences under Section 498A of IPC, between the husband, wife or family members,” Justice…
BJP MP from Khandwa Gyaneshwar Patil INDORE: In wake of the Indore tragedy caused by contamination of the water supply, BJP MP from Khandwa Gyaneshwar Patil has called for greater public accountability, urging the people to bring deficiencies or contamination issues to the administration’s notice immediately rather than relying entirely on state intervention.“Whether it is…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Thursday (local time) met French President Emmanuel Macron during his visit to France and conveyed PM Modi’s warm wishes, underscoring the strength of the India–France Strategic Partnership.Sharing details of the meeting on X, Jaishankar said, “Delighted to call on President @EmmanuelMacron of France today and convey warm…
NEW DELHI: ‘Bol ke lab azaad hain tere,’ scribbled across a yellow chart paper, fought for space alongside a poster exhorting freshers to join the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad. During the high-decibel Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) polls in Sept, the walls of democracy at North Campus gave opposing student parties the opportunity to stand…
At a junction on Anna Salai in Chennai, a car edges past the spot where a traffic light once hung, slows down, curves into a U-turn and merges back without stopping. Almost 1700km away, in Bokaro, drivers approach roundabouts that have never needed signals at all, easing off instinctively. In Kota, the same idea of…
