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NEW DELHI: Air India has offered to explore operating 275 additional flights this month in wake of the government-ordered 10% capacity cut for IndiGo. The Tata Group airline has asked aviation ministry, which is likely to finalise the route curtailment over the weekend itself, for a long-term plan so that it acts accordingly, reports Saurabh…
NEW DLEHI: Senior CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat has written to President Droupadi Murmu, seeking her intervention over the Uttar Pradesh government’s move to withdraw charges against the accused in the 2015 Dadri mob lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq, PTI reported.In her letter on Saturday, Karat called the withdrawal a “politically motivated” step and raised concerns over…
Sidhu Moosewala’s mother sends legal notice to Christian organisation for defamation BATHINDA: Angry over the use of her picture in a protest, slain rapper Sidhu Moosewala‘s mother, Charan Kaur, has sent a legal notice for criminal and civil defamation. The notice requires cessation, a public apology, and compensation to the office bearers/authorised representatives of the…
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has received a complaint from BJP MP Anurag Thakur regarding a TMC lawmaker allegedly using an e-cigarette inside the House. Thakur highlighted this as a serious breach of parliamentary rules and the Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes Act, 2019. The Lok Sabha secretariat is reviewing proceedings for appropriate action. NEW DELHI:…
Traced To Hotel Based On Travel, Passport Details Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, co-owners of ‘Birch by Romeo Lane’ nightclub in Goa, were detained by Thai police early on Thursday on the request of Indian law enforcement agencies. As their passports were suspended, they became persona non grata in Thailand, prompting the local police to take…
Industry leaders in the electronics sector have urged the Indian government to allow joint venture proposals with Chinese companies under the automatic route, while limiting their equity share to a maximum of 26%, sources said.Documents reviewed by ET show that multiple industry associations, including the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the India Electronics &…
NEW DELHI: A “profusely apologetic” IndiGo has blamed a combination of five factors including the new flight duty time limitation (FDTL) rules and winter schedule-related changes for its massive flight disruptions, in its reply to the DGCA’s show cause notice submitted on Monday evening. The airline has said given the scale of its operations, it…
Union minister for defence Rajnath Singh (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Sharing excerpts from a book containing Vallabhbhai Patel’s daught-er’s diaries, Congress Saturday accused defence minister Rajnath Singh of lying that Jawaharlal Nehru wanted to build the Babri mosque using public funds, and demanded that Singh apologise to the nation for spreading falsehoods about the country’s…
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday called for cooperation among tax jurisdictions to deal with digitalisation of economy, emergence of new financial products, and evolving structures of beneficial ownership, while asserting that there was greater tax compliance, and voluntarily, in India in recent years.In her address at the plenary…
A Parliamentary panel has called for sweeping improvements to India’s insolvency framework, including a new advance ruling mechanism that would give stakeholders clarity even before a case is admitted under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC). The proposal is aimed at reducing avoidable litigation and safeguarding the time-bound nature of the resolution process, according to…
