Kavaratti: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and laid the foundation for various projects worth Rs 1,150 crore in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep on Wednesday. The projects were launched at a function attended by hundreds of islanders here. This includes the Kochi-Lakshadweep Islands Submarine Optical Fibre Connection (KLI – SOFC) project, which he announced in…
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday skipped the third summons issued by the ED in the Delhi excise policy case and sent a written reply calling the notice illegal, AAP sources said. The Aam Aadmi Party asserted that Kejriwal was ready to cooperate with the agency but claimed that the summons was…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday while pronouncing its verdict on a batch of petitions seeking a court-monitored probe into the allegations of stock price manipulation against the Adani Group said that the facts of the case did not warrant a transfer of probe to an SIT or another agency. Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y…
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday targeted opposition parties and said those who robbed the poor of their rights are indulging in caste politics today. Interacting with beneficiaries of welfare schemes during the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra, Adityanath also cautioned people against those working to divide society by engaging in caste politics,…
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir has become the first Union Territory to implement the PM Vishwakarma Yojana, an initiative that aims to empower and enhance the skills of the craftsman community, officials said. The inauguration of the training programme for the first batch of 30 trainees (Viswakarmas) in ‘darzi craft’ was virtually conducted by Advisor to…
Wajima (Japan): A series of powerful earthquakes that hit western Japan left at least 57 people dead and damaged thousands of buildings, vehicles, and boats. Officials warned on Tuesday that more quakes could lie ahead. Aftershocks continued to shake Ishikawa prefecture and nearby areas a day after a magnitude 7.6 temblor slammed the area. The…
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday directed the state officials to prepare a “flawless” survey report of the Maratha community in the state. Shinde issued the directives to the divisional commissioners, district collectors and municipal commissioners in the state in a video-conference meeting held during the day. Referring to the Supreme Court’s decision…
Guwahati: A fourth-year female student of Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati was found dead in a hotel here, a police officer said on Tuesday. The deceased, who hailed from Telangana, and three of her batchmates came to Guwahati, which is about 25 kilometres from the institute, on December 31 evening to celebrate the New Year. “They…
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank on Tuesday proposed allowing banks having net non-performing assets (NPAs) ratio of less than 6 percent to declare dividends. As per the prevailing norms last updated in 2005, banks need to have an NNPA ratio of up to 7 percent to become eligible for declaration of dividends. “The net NPA ratio,…
New Delhi: Rules for the Citizenship (Amendment) Act of 2019 will be notified “much before” the announcement of the Lok Sabha elections, a senior government functionary said on Tuesday. Under the CAA brought in by the Narendra Modi government, Indian nationality will be granted to persecuted non-Muslim migrants — Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and…
