NEW DELHI: The Rouse Avenue Court is set to pronounce the order on framing charges in the IRCTC hotel corruption case on October 13. The court has directed all accused, including RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, his wife Rabri Devi, son Tejaswi Yadav, former minister Prem Chand Gupta and others, to appear in person on…
Violations of the Infant Milk Substitutes (IMS) Act, meant to protect breastfeeding from predatory marketing of baby food companies, have multiplied of late and activists blame this on government inaction on earlier violations.The violations are in the form of companies sponsoring seminars and conferences by doctors as well as doctors who promote baby food through…
Edappadi K Palaniswami; TTV Dhinakaran NEW DELHI: Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK) general secretary TTV Dhinakaran has ruled out returning to the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Tamil Nadu as long as AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami remains the chief ministerial candidate.“That is the only issue for us. Not Amma’s (J Jayalalithaa) party heading…
NEW DELHI: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday declared that his party is “ready for alliance with RJD,” sending a formal letter to Bihar’s leader of opposition Tejashwi Yadav seeking entry into the Mahagathbandhan ahead of the upcoming assembly elections. These remarks come as Owaisi began his Bihar campaign with the four-day “Seemanchal Nyay Yatra”…
NEW DELHI: As Congress top brass met in Patna on Wednesday for the party’s first post-Independence Working Committee meeting in Bihar, the Bharatiya Janata Party targeted the opposition INDIA bloc, claiming disputes over seat-sharing.The Congress held Working Committee meeting focusing on the assembly election strategy and increasing pressure on the BJP over alleged “vote chori”…
NEW DELHI: India and Sri Lanka plan to further enhance their defence cooperation and military interoperability across their armed forces, with Navy chief Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi having wide-ranging discussions with Sri Lankan PM Harini Amarasuriya in Colombo on Tuesday.Officials said Admiral Tripathi and PM Amarasuriya also focused on the enduring bilateral partnership in the…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on Wednesday addressed the High-Level Meeting of Like Minded Global South Countries in New York, where he called for stronger cooperation among developing nations and reforms in multilateral institutions.“We meet in increasingly uncertain times when the state of the world is a cause for mounting concern for…
Volodymyr Zelenskyy (left), PM Narendra Modi (PTI) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed hope that stronger diplomatic engagement between India and the West could prompt New Delhi to reconsider its energy imports from Russia. In an interview with Fox News, Zelenskyy underscored the need to keep India aligned with the Western bloc amid the ongoing…
Image used for representative purposes Choked airports, weather events, maintenance and staff woes, there’s much that can hold up flight operations. But carriers have a simple strategy to stay on top of flight schedules: inflating the duration of the journeyDepending on which airline you choose to fly, the travel time mentioned in the ticket for…
NEW DELHI: Railways will run around 12,000 special trains to clear the festive rush during Diwali and Chhath, and going by estimates, these would carry around three crore additional passengers – more than Australia’s population – over 45 days, beginning Oct 1.Railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Tuesday said another 150 completely unreserved trains will be kept…
