Santiniketan: Intellectuals held a sit-in near the ancestral house of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen here on Saturday protesting against the notice by Visva-Bharati university to the economist to vacate 0.13 acres (5,500 sq ft) of the total 1.38 acres allegedly held by him ‘illegally’ or face eviction. Rabindranath Tagore’s songs of protest were sung during […]
Imphal: The death toll in the ethnic violence that engulfed Manipur has gone up to 54, officials told news agency PTI. This comes after four people were shot dead in Manipur’s Churachandpur when security forces were carrying out evacuation of Meiteis in the area and another was killed in Imphal. Of the 54 officially declared […]
Mumbai: Days after Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar announced his resignation from the top post of the party, the veteran leader withdrew his decision on Friday, saying that he cannot disrespect the emotions of the people. This came hours after the 18-member committee appointed to decide the future of NCP unanimously rejected the […]
New Delhi: India is considering overturning a ban on foreign investment in its nuclear power industry and allowing greater participation by domestic private firms, two government sources told Reuters, as part of a push for cleaner energy. The measures have been recommended by a government panel, set up by think-tank Niti Aayog which is headed […]
Santiniketan: A rally was taken out in this university town in Bengal by intellectuals and local people on Friday against the eviction notice issued by Visva-Bharati to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen. The protest also featured singing of Rabindra Nath Tagore’s songs, recitation of Gurudev’s poems of protest and acting of sections of dramas by him […]
New Delhi: Railway ticket checkers are being provided body cameras with the aim to ensure transparency in the process and prevent violent and unruly behaviour on board trains, officials said. As a pilot project, the Central Railway has procured 50 such body cameras and provided them to ticket checkers in the Mumbai Division. Procured at […]
The CBI on Friday conducted searches at seven locations including the premises of Jet Airways and its founder Naresh Goyal in Mumbai in connection with an alleged Rs 538-crore fraud case in Canara Bank, officials said. The CBI searches were spread across residences and offices of Goyal, his wife Anita, and former airline director Gaurang […]
New Delhi: Reacting to Union Sports and Youth Welfare Minister Anurag Singh Thakur’s statement that all the demands of the protesting wrestlers have been accepted, the Congress on Friday questioned the morality of the government, saying, “Where is justice when the wrestlers are protesting at Jantar Mantar.” Wrestlers like Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik […]
New Delhi: Union Minister and BJP leader Meenakashi Lekhi on Thursday said the credibility of the wrestlers’ protest at Jantar Mantar eroded after “discredited” politicians joined it. The wrestlers have levelled sexual harassment charges against Wrestling Federation of India chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Saran Singh and have been staging a sit-in at Jantar […]
New Delhi: Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday said he wants to see a greater presence of US-based Boeing in India as the American firm has recently received a large order of planes from Tata Group-owned Air India. In February, in one of the largest aircraft orders by an airline, Air India announced […]