This is a representative image (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: At more than 1.5 crore, the number of registered vehicles in Delhi matches the combined total of registered vehicles in the three metropolitan cities of Mumbai, Kolkata, and Chennai, road transport ministry data has revealed, highlighting the immense pressure on Delhi’s roads.This problem of congestion…
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government on Thursday said that it had “no current plans” to remove the words ‘socialism’ and ‘secularism’ from the Preamble.Noting the recent calls to review the insertion of the two words in the Preamble during Emergency period, Centre said that “no formal decision or proposal has been announced…
Union Minister Mansukh L. Mandaviya addresses the 70th Foundation Day programme of the ‘Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh’ NEW DELHI: As the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) celebrates its 70th anniversary, the highlight is its rise as India’s largest trade union — a position secured by eclipsing Left-leaning organisations like Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) and All…
NEW DELHI: Thirty-seven years after he raped an 11-year-old girl in Ajmer district of Rajasthan, Supreme Court Wednesday upheld the conviction of the accused but declared him a juvenile. The court directed the man, now 53 years old, to appear before the Juvenile Justice Board, which can at most send him to a special home…
NEW DELHI: Deaths due to accidents on national highways have marginally reduced. The road transport ministry on Wednesday informed Rajya Sabha that 53,372 lives were lost in road crashes on the NH network in 2023 and this reduced to 52,609 during last year. Govt data showed that in 2022, fatalities on NH were 61,038.In a…
TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee (Image credits: PTI) NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Kalyan Banerjee on Wednesday claimed that former Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar was forced to resign by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and senior cabinet ministers. He further alleged that Dhankhar was “threatened” with an impeachment motion if he did not step down.The TMC…
NEW DELHI: A Doha-bound Air India Express flight from Calicut International Airport was forced to return on Wednesday morning due to a technical fault, airport officials confirmed. The aircraft was carrying 188 passengers, including crew and pilots. The plane landed safely back at the airport after a two-hour journey.Flight IX 375 took off from Calicut…
NAVI MUMBAI: This is no flight of fancy. A Greater flamingo found injured in Nerul’s NRI wetland, whose left leg had to be amputated, could soon take to the skies again.Makarand Saraf, a lecturer from Mumbai’s All India Institute of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, and his team have successfully fitted a prosthesis on the adolescent…
NEW DELHI: It is said there are no permanent friends or foes in politics. This was proved true once again when the surprise exit of Jagdeep Dhankhar as Vice-President on health grounds on Monday turned many of his sworn critics into well-wishers. This even as most of the NDA leaders – with whom Dhankhar had…
Army gets the first 3 of the 6 Apache attack helicopters ordered from the US NEW DELHI: The`tanks in the air’ for the Army are finally here. Three of the six long-delayed Apache AH-64 attack helicopters, contracted under the Rs 5,691 crore deal with the US in Feb 2020, arrived in India on Tuesday.The three…