IndiGo airlines (PTI image) NEW DELHI: JDU MP and Parliamentary Standing Committee Chair Sanjay Jha on Wednesday said the panel has heard IndiGo’s side on last week’s flight disruptions, but the inquiry is still ongoing.“There was a disruption at the airport involving air traffic control, and a detailed presentation on it was given today… The…
NEW DELHI: India is expected to have at least five indigenously designed and developed small modular reactors (SMRs) under the Nuclear Energy Mission by 2033.In a written reply in Lok Sabha on Wednesday, Union minister Jitendra Singh said the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre has already initiated design and development work on the 200 megawatt electrical…
Shashi Tharoor (PTI image) NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday questioned the decision to host the fourth India–South Africa T20I in Lucknow amid dense fog and severe air pollution, after the match was eventually called off due to poor visibility.Tharoor suggested the game should have been scheduled in Thiruvananthapuram, citing significantly better air…
Luthra brothers (File photo) NEW DELHI: Advocate Vishnu Joshi, representing a victim’s family in the Goa nightclub fire case, on Wednesday said that one of the Luthra brothers requested a Dunlop mattress during police remand.Joshi explained that the court carefully considered the brothers’ health claims before granting custody. Speaking to reporters, he said, “Today, when…
NEW DELHI: An H-1B visa holder expressed their frustration over a sudden visa rescheduling that moved their December interview to March 2026 and left them unable to return to the US.The user shared their experience in a post on the workplace forum Blind. He said the rescheduling appears linked to a new social media vetting…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday arrived in Muscat, Oman for a two-day visit, kickstarting his third and final leg of his three-nation tour to the Middle East and Africa.He was received at the airport by Oman’s deputy PM for defence affairs Sayyid Shihab bin Tariq Al Said, and was accorded a guard…
PM Modi shared images of Param Vir heroes (Image/X@narendramodi) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said portraits of soldiers from the British era at Rashtrapati Bhavan have been replaced with those of India’s own heroes. The change comes with the inauguration of the Param Vir Gallery, which honours Param Vir Chakra awardees and…
Indian Navy commissioned its second MH 60R helicopter squadron, INAS 335 (Ospreys) at INS Hansa, in Vasco on Wednesday. NEW DELHI: The Indian Navy on Wednesday commissioned its second squadron of MH-60R (Romeo) multi-role helicopters, INAS 335 ‘Ospreys’, at Goa’s INS Hansa naval air base, marking a key step in strengthening India’s submarine warfare and…
NEW DELHI: A Nashik court on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant against Maharashtra NCP minister Manikrao Kokate, facing a 2-year jail term in a cheating, forgery case.This comes after a session court in Nashik on Tuesday confirmed and upheld the trial court’s judgement of February, convicting and sentencing Maharashtra sports minister and his brother Vijay….
NEW DELHI: As Delhi-NCR continues to grapple with rising air pollution, the Supreme Court orally observed that the measures implemented by authorities so far have been a “total failure” in effectively curbing the escalating levels of air pollution across Delhi and its neighbouring regions.In a separate development, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) shared a video…