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Left Unity sweeps JNU polls, promises better facilities
Andhra Pradesh boat disaster toll rises to 28, 18 still missing
No relief for former Kolkata Police Commissioner, Rajeev Kumar in Saradha scam case
India to become $10 trillion economy by 2030-32: Defence minister Rajnath
EPFO rates hiked to 8.65% for 2018-19 fiscal
Assembly elections on the anvil; consumers unlikely to face petrol, diesel price hike pinch
New Delhi: Consumers in India are unlikely to be overburdened with high retail price of auto fuels – petrol and diesel – following a spike in international crude prices that rose 19 per cent on Monday. Global oil prices are on the boil again in the aftermath of the largest...
Read moreTerrorists will fill vacuum: Rajiv Gandhi on Farooq Abdullah’s detention under PSA
New Delhi: The opposition Congress and CPI(M) launched Tuesday a scathing attack on the Centre over the detention of Farooq Abdullah under the Public Safety Act (PSA), with Rahul Gandhi stating that nationalist leaders like the National Conference (NC) chief were being removed to create a political vacuum in Jammu and Kashmir and use the Valley to polarise the rest of India. Rahul Gandhi also demanded that the government immediately release...
Read moreState’s programme expenditure declines by 4 pc
Bhubaneswar: State’s programme expenditure till August 2019 has declined by 4 per cent as compared to the corresponding period of 2018-19 financial year. The sluggish state spending has become a case for concern of the government. The programme expenditure till August 2018 was around 32 per cent of the budget provision while the expenditure till August 2019 was 28 per cent of the budget allocation. This was revealed during the all-secretaries...
Read morePakistani Hindu girl found dead in dental college hostel room, family cries foul
Karachi: A Pakistani Hindu dental college student was found dead in mysterious circumstances in her hostel room in Sindh province with a rope tied to her neck. It prompted her family to demand a transparent probe, according to media reports here, Tuesday. Namrita Chandni, a final-year student of ‘Bibi Asifa Dental College’ in Larkana district and a social activist, was found lying on a cot by her friends Monday with a...
Read moreContract signed with Chinese firm to revive Talcher fertilizer plant by 2023
New Delhi: China’s Wuhuan Engineering Co Ltd was Tuesday awarded a lump sum turnkey (LSTK) contract to build India’s maiden urea plant based on gas produced from coal at a cost of Rs 13,277 crore by September 2023. The project in Talcher will convert 2.5 million tonne of coal and 0.35 million tonnes of petcoke into syngas that would be used to make 1.27 million tonne of urea, Oil Minister Dharmendra...
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‘Sound of Silence’ set to hit Indian Railways from December
New Delhi: Trains in India will go ‘silent’ by December, with the Indian Railways deciding to run them on power drawn from an overhead electric supply system, instead of the noisy power cars at either end, officials said Tuesday. One of the two power cars will be replaced with an LSLRD (LHB Second Luggage, Guard & Divyaang...
Narendra Modi didn’t ask for Zakir Naik’s extradition: Malaysian PM Mahathir
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Tuesday that his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi did not request the extradition of Zakir Naik, wanted in India for money laundering and terror-related charges, and his country is looking for a place to send the radical preacher. Naik, a 53-year-old radical television preacher, left India in 2016 and subsequently...
Unsure how leadership will affect me: Quinton de Kock
Mohali: Newly-appointed South African T20 captain Quinton de Kock Tuesday said the additional responsibility could be a double-edged sword but he is not thinking too much about it. Quniton de Kock is one of the senior players in this new-look team and has been handed captaincy in the absence of Faf du Plessis as the management is...
N Srinivasan-run TNPL under fire from stakeholders over match-fixing allegations, poor umpiring
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) which has already gained notoriety after multiple players reporting corrupt approaches to Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) of the BCCI has prompted some of the stakeholders to demand better revenue sharing model as well as upgrade in quality of officials appointed for the tournament. The BCCI ACU revealed Monday that many players...
British Supreme Court to decide whether UK PM Boris Johnson’s Parliament break is illegal
London: Britain's Supreme Court opened proceedings Tuesday to decide whether Prime Minister Boris Johnson broke the law when he suspended Parliament just weeks before the UK is due to leave the European Union, in a case that pits the powers of elected lawmakers against those of the executive. Boris Johnson sent lawmakers home September 9 until October...
SC asks ED, CBI to file status report on coal scam cases
New Delhi: The Supreme Court sought to know Tuesday from the CBI and Enforcement Directorate (ED) the status of investigation and trial in the coal block allocation scam cases that are being probed by the two agencies. The apex court said it would take a practical view on repatriation of officers, involved in the investigation of coal...
Terrorists will fill vacuum: Rajiv Gandhi on Farooq Abdullah’s detention under PSA
New Delhi: The opposition Congress and CPI(M) launched Tuesday a scathing attack on the Centre over the detention of Farooq Abdullah under the Public Safety Act (PSA), with Rahul Gandhi stating that nationalist leaders like the National Conference (NC) chief were being removed to create a political vacuum in Jammu and Kashmir and use the Valley to...
Left Unity sweeps JNU polls, promises better facilities
New Delhi: The Left Unity clinched Tuesday all the four top posts in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students’ union polls here. The results were declared late in the evening after the Delhi High Court permitted the varsity to declare the results. After the counting, Aishe Ghosh of the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) was elected as...
Missing nurse found dead
Bhubaneswar: The body of a 23-year-old nurse missing since September 8 was found in Jagatsinghpur district, police said Tuesday. The body of Niharika Patra was found on Biluakhai river bed near Nuapari area in Jagatsinghpur stuffed in a sack with her hands and legs tied with a rope, they said. The cause of the death can be...
Four Indians in quarterfinals of Boxing Worlds
Ekaterinburg (Russia): The Indian juggernaut seemed unstoppable as four boxers, including Asian Games gold medallist Amit Panghal (52kg), advanced to the quarterfinals with impressive victories to round off an all-win outing at the World Men’s Championships here, Tuesday. Second seed Panghal was joined by Asian silver-winner and fifth seed Kavinder Singh Bisht (57kg) and the debutant duo...
