NEW DELHI: In its bid to rein in the menace of uninsured vehicles plying on roads and unsafe driving, road transport and highways ministry has proposed amendments in the Motor Vehicles Act to empower enforcement agencies to detain such vehicles and introduce a provision barring the issuance of a fresh driving licence (DL) to applicants…
NEW DELHI: The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) – the country’s apex consumer protection authority – has initiated suo motu action against 27 restaurants for mandatory levy of ‘service charge’ despite guidelines issued by it against the same, which have been upheld by Delhi high court. Besides directing these restaurants to immediately refund consumers, CCPA…
New Delhi: Observing that preventive detention can’t be used just to prolong the custody of stubborn offenders, the SC has said it cannot be invoked because there is apprehension that an accused may not mend ways and commit another crime after getting bail. SC said if an accused commits fresh offence while on bail, then…
BENGALURU: India took a formal step towards building its own space station, with Isro inviting Indian industry to develop the first module of the proposed Bharatiya Antariksh Station (BAS). Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, under the Department of Space, issued an expression of interest (EoI) seeking qualified Indian aerospace manufacturers to build two sets of the…
PANAJI: Goa officially breached the 1-crore mark in total tourist arrivals last year, riding a booming domestic market. However, foreign tourist arrivals are struggling to regain pre-pandemic levels, currently sitting at nearly 42% below 2017 numbers, data for 2025 released by the tourism department showed. In 2017, Goa welcomed 8.9 lakh foreign tourists. In 2025,…
HOSHIAPUR: Four people from Himachal Pradesh were killed in a collision between a car and a Punjab Roadways bus in dense fog near Hoshiarpur Saturday morning when they were on their way to Amritsar airport. Police said Sukhwinder Singh of Chalet village in Himachal’s Daulatpur town had set off for Amritsar with three friends to…
BADLAPUR: Facing political backlash following his appointment by BJP as a co-opted councillor in the Kulgaon-Badlapur municipal council, Tushar Apte, one of the accused in the 2024 Badlapur school sexual abuse case, resigned from the post Saturday. He was appointed Friday, reports Pradeep Gupta. Apte was booked in the sexual abuse case for allegedly failing…
Former DGP Rashmi Shukla submitted a report to govt just 4 days before her retirement on Jan 3 against ex-DGP and former Mumbai police commissioner Sanjay Pandey for conspiring to arrest Devendra Fadnavis and Eknath Shinde during the tenure of the Uddhav Thackeray govt MUMBAI: Just four days before her retirement on Jan 3, former…
Ajit Pawar with Supriya Sule and other party members in Pune, Saturday PUNE: Estranged cousins Ajit Pawar and Supriya Sule came together for the first time on a political platform on Saturday to release the joint manifesto of NCP and NCP (SP) for the Pune civic polls nearly two-and-a-half years after the split in the…
JAMMU: A drone from Pakistan dropped a consignment of arms and ammunition in a border village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district on Friday, police said on Saturday.“Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of BSF and special operations group of police launched a search operation in Paloora village of Rajpura area on Friday night….