NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday hit back at Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray after he accused the saffron party of attempting to incite tensions in Mumbai by exploiting the issue of Chhath Puja.Speaking to news agency ANI, BJP MP Manoj Tiwari said people in Maharashtra, including the “Marathi Manus”, had rejected…
FAA issues national ground stop due to ‘extraordinary circumstance and reasons for safety’ Air travel across the United States was thrown into disruption on Friday after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered a nationwide halt to flight departures, citing a telecommunications outage affecting regional air traffic control centres.The unprecedented move grounded flights at airports across…
Air India warns of disruptions to flights to and from America NEW DELHI: Air India flights operating to and from the US could face disruptions after a communication outage forced the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to impose a nationwide ground stop on departures.The airline said the disruption had affected departures from airports across the country,…
‘I Play Rocky’ box office collection day 1: Amid massive ‘Ramayana’ turnout, Sylvester Stallone’s biographical drama starts with a weak debut in India. The film earned Rs 24 lakhs for its first day. (Instagram) ‘I Play Rocky,’ the biographical drama about veteran actor Sylvester Stallone, has finally been released in India, a week after its…
Three balls. That was all Matt Henry needed to turn India’s chase of 334 into a rout.Henry was only supposed to be passing through. Having missed most of the T20Is with a leg injury and the early ODIs amid concussion concerns after colliding with Devon Conway, the seamer stayed back at Bay Oval in Mount…
Two planets finish their retrograde today. Mercury turns direct after three weeks of crossed messages. Venus does the same after a longer stretch that slowed down money and love matters. Don’t expect everything to fix itself by evening, since planets need a few days to pick up speed after changing direction. But the direction has…
Delhi University has granted financial support of up to Rs 17 crore for a teacher’s daughter NEW DELHI: Delhi University has approved financial assistance of up to Rs 17 crore for the treatment of the nine-month-old daughter of a School of Open Learning (SOL) teacher, diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) Type II, a rare…
Mumbai: A deputy commissioner of police, appointed as a competent authority under the Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999, has said that non-refund of a security deposit did not give licensees a lien or the right to retain possession after the expiry of a leave-and-licence agreement. They could seek recovery of the deposit through separate civil…
KPSC suspended chairperson Shivashankarappa Sahukar Bengaluru: Enforcement Directorate (ED), probing the money laundering linked to bribes allegedly collected from candidates in the veterinary doctors’ recruitment scam, filed a prosecution complaint (chargesheet) against the four accused: suspended IAS officer Gyanendra Kumar Gangwar, suspended Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) chief Shivashankarappa Sahukar, suspended KPSC member BV Geetha…
Chennai: Preparing a fresh detailed project report (DPR) and inviting new tenders for the proposed elevated corridor between Thiruvanmiyur and Uthandi along the East Coast Road (ECR) was under consideration, said public works department (PWD) minister Aadhav Arjuna.He told reporters in Chennai on Friday that a committee examining the project, costing about ₹1,600 crore, is…
