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Priyanka Gandhi Vadra; PM Narendra Modi NEW DELHI: Asked to comment on the rupee breaching the 90 mark against the US dollar for the first time, Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday recalled Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 2013 jibe at his predecessor, then–PM Manmohan Singh, and told reporters that the question should be directed…

IndiGo continues to face disruptions IndiGo continues to face disruptions in India due to multiple reasons. On Wednesday alone, over 200 flights were cancelled across different cities in India, sending waves of frustration among flyers. The airline has been facing significant disruptions for the past few days due to multiple reasons, as per their official…

CHANDIGARH: “The very essence of a welfare state is compromised when the instrumentalities of the state become a source of protracted litigation,” Punjab and Haryana HC observed recently, while reprimanding Punjab govt for its apathy in not absorbing a former worker of Anandpur Sahib Hydel Project for over three decades.Justice Harpreet Singh Brar ordered the…

President Droupadi Murmu presents Lt Col C Dwarakesh with the National Award for Persons with Disabilities on Wednesday PUNE: A basketball match at a military station in 2014 was one of the last things Lt Col C Dwarakesh saw before an accident left him blind. He would spend the next eight months in hospital, healing…

Sunali Khatun and son were deported on suspicions of being Bangladeshis. NEW DELHI: More than five months after her deportation to Bangladesh, the Union govt on Wednesday told Supreme Court that it would “purely on humanitarian grounds” bring back Sunali Khatun, who is pregnant, and her eight-year-old son, even as it stuck to its stand…

NEW DELHI: India’s green economy could attract $4.1 trillion (Rs 360 lakh crore) in cumulative investments and create 48 million (4.8 crore) ‘full-time equivalent’ (FTE) jobs by 2047, an independent study released by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) said.The analysis also projects that India could unlock a $1.1 trillion (Rs 97.7 lakh…

No proposal to create an Indian Education Service, says CentreThe Centre has ruled out any proposal to create an Indian Education Service (IES) for appointments to key leadership positions in higher education institutions, including chancellors, vice-chancellors, pro-chancellors and registrars.Responding to a written question in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, MoS for education Sukanta Majumdar said there…

Rajya Sabha LoP Mallikarjun Kharge (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: The joint opposition Wednesday protested at the Parliament entrance against new labour codes and demanded their scrapping, with Congress president and leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge targeting the Modi govt as “anti-labour, anti-worker, pro-cronies”.Kharge said the codes pose a “threat to job security”…

MUMBAI: Producing an undertrial prisoner in court was a fundamental safeguard to enable them to air grievances, said Supreme Court as it censured state prison authorities for their failure to produce an inmate on 65% of the court dates.“We are shocked at the conduct of the state authorities,” said the bench of Justices Ahsanuddin Amanullah…

Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah (PTI photo) JAMMU: J&K CM Omar Abdullah Wednesday said his govt has rationalised the reservation policy in the best possible manner.Talking to reporters after chairing his cabinet meeting in Jammu, the CM said the proposal has been forwarded to Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha for approval and it would be…