NEW DELHI: Is road transport fast losing share to railways in the transportation of newly manufactured cars? The answer is yes. In the past 11 years, railways have registered an 18-fold increase in transportation of cars – from barely 1.5 per cent of cars manufactured in 2013-14 to over 24 per cent in 2024-25.In the…
Soon, e-Aadhaar will be sufficient for verification NEW DELHI: In a few weeks, you may not need to provide photocopies of Aadhaar and will instead be able to share electronic Aadhaar, either in full or the masked version, using a new app based on QR code.And, by November, other than submitting your biometric details, you…
PM Modi meeting with Ramesh Viswashkumar, the sole survivor of Air India plane crash (Photo: PTI) AHMEDABAD: At 1.40 pm on June 12, Satinder Singh Sandhu, cluster fleet manager for EMRI 108 at Civil Hospital campus, was near the hospital when he heard a loud noise followed by a huge cloud of smoke. He set…
Representative image (Photo: PTI) GUWAHATI: Kuki and Meitei villagers clashed on Sunday along the boundary of Imphal East and Kangpokpi districts in Manipur after a standoff between farmers from both communities over ploughing rights at a foothill village.Three to five people suffered minor injuries during the skirmish near Sadu Lampak, an area straddling an unofficial…
AHMEDABAD: Still to overcome the psychological trauma caused by the AI plane crash, he unwittingly ended up capturing on his mobile phone in Ahmedabad, shaken and disturbed, Aryan Asari on Sunday returned to his native village in Aravalli district to focus on his class 12 studies. The 17-year-old from Shamlaji taluka had arrived in Ahmedabad…
File photo: CM Siddaramaiah (Photo: ANI) BENGALURU: Congress’s decision to undertake a new caste survey in Karnataka has left the Siddaramaiah government sandwiched between a section of backward classes apprehensive of losing their purported advantage of numbers in the Kantharaj Commission’s report and dominant communities like Lingayats and Vokkaligas that seek re-enumeration.This growing divergence over…
File photo: Ex-Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani (Photo: ANI) AHMDEABAD: Bodies of 38 victims from the June 12 crash of Air India Flight 171 were handed over to relatives by Sunday evening, 30 passengers and crew aboard the Boeing Dreamliner and eight who died on the ground when the plane slammed into buildings at BJ Medical…
Ambulances parked as authorities prepare to transfer the dead bodies of victims from the hospital complex in Ahmedabad NEW DELHI: Closure of multiple countries’ airspaces and enhanced surveillance on Air India Dreamliners in the wake of the Ahmedabad crash is causing cascading delays for travellers. With Iran airspace closed, Dubai air traffic control is seeing…
PM Modi being welcomed by members of the Indian diaspora in Cyprus Ahead of his departure for Cyprus on Sunday, PM Narendra Modi said his three-nation tour was also an opportunity to thank partner countries for their “steadfast support” to India in its fight against cross-border terrorism, and to galvanise global understanding on tackling terrorism…
Maharashtra bridge collapse (Picture credit: AP) PUNE: A structurally weak iron-and-concrete footbridge over the Indrayani river that had been declared unfit for use but not officially shut to pedestrians and bikes collapsed Sunday, about 40km from Pune, killing four people and injuring 51, eight of them critically.One person was reported missing after falling into the…
