In his first appointments after taking over as BJP president, Nitin Nabin on Tuesday named Vinod Tawde as party in-charge for Kerala assembly polls and Union minister Shobha Karandlaje as co-incharge. Tawde will also be election observer for Chandigarh mayoral poll. Ashish Shelar, a minister in Maharashtra govt, is in-charge of Telangana municipal and corporation…
NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) Tuesday said IndiGo has assured it of “operational stability and no flight cancellations after Feb 10, 2026”, when the airline’s exemption from new flight duty time limitation (FDTL) rule ends. IndiGo management had met DGCA brass on Monday and made these assurances “based on the current…
The deadline for SIR hearings in Bengal, earlier set for Feb 7, will be extended by at least 10 days following Supreme Court order, a senior Election Commission (EC) official has said. As a result, the final publication of the electoral roll, scheduled for Feb 14, may also be deferred, reports Debashis Konar. “Ten days’…
NEW DELHI: In his maiden address after taking over as BJP national president, Nitin Nabin on Tuesday asked party workers to mount a fight to “protect” the centres and legacy of Sanatan faith, saying political parties opposed to ‘deepam’ tradition in Madurai or existence of Ram Setu should have no space in politics.Nabin, whose elevation…
New Delhi: The Election Commission Tuesday told Supreme Court the Constitution empowers it to devise means, methods and procedure for preparation of voter lists for a free and fair election and asserted that its order for a pan-India special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has a legislative character.Continuing with the debate over the constitutional…
NEW DELHI: Even before Noida International Airport at Jewar commences operation, two MNCs – Panama-headquartered UETA Inc and Singapore-based Heinemann Asia Pacific – have locked horns over allotment of duty-free and retail outlets at the soon to be operationalised airport that would decongest traffic at Delhi airports.UETA on Tuesday challenged before the Supreme Court a…
HYDERABAD: Energy transition player AM Group (AMG), which is backed by the founders of Greenko Group, plans to set up a 1GW (gigawatt) high-performance AI infrastructure hub in Greater Noida region, with an investment of $25 billion.The high-performance compute hub to cater to global AI workloads will be developed in a phased manner, with the…
JAMMU: Operation Trashi-I, initiated to hunt and kill fleeing ultras in the hilly, forested region of Chatroo, in J&K’s Kishtwar district, entered its third day Tuesday even as security forces fortified the cordon and intensified the searches with the backing of aerial surveillance and sniffer dogs, officials said.The troops busted a well-concealed terrorist hideout in…
MUMBAI: India’s new Shanti Act gives American firms an opportunity to collaborate in the fast-growing area of nuclear energy, Vinay Mohan Kwatra, New’s Delhi’s ambassador in Washington, has said.“As interests of the India-US partnership continuously converge and align in this space, American firms can now compete on a level playing field for one of the…
SRINAGAR: National Conference president Dr Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday rejected demands for further division of Jammu and Kashmir, and instead insisted on Ladakh’s reunification with J&K.He also dismissed PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti’s proposal for carving out Muslim majority areas of Jammu as a separate division of J&K, calling it an advocacy of the ‘Dixon Plan’…