Rajnath Singh and other NDA functionaries arrive for the floor leaders meet at Parliament House on Sunday (Photo credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: The prospect of disruption looms over an already truncated winter session of Parliament as a united opposition on Sunday pressed for a discussion on SIR, an issue that had all but washed out...
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Winter session starts today, SIR likely to make it stormy
Rajnath Singh and other NDA functionaries arrive for the floor leaders meet at Parliament House on Sunday (Photo credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: The prospect of disruption looms over an already truncated winter session of Parliament as a united opposition on Sunday pressed for a discussion on SIR, an issue that had all but washed out...
‘Govt steps in’: Centre backs flyers in SC fight; Delhi, Mumbai operators face Rs 50,000cr hit
Operators DIAL and MIAL have challenged a TDSAT verdict striking down their hypothetical regulatory asset base (HRAB) claim, which refers to the capital value of the assets used to calculate the costs of the regulated services, for the first two years of these airports during PPP era, which started about 20 years ago NEW DELHI:...
‘1983 Nellie killings not communal’: Assam makes Tewary report public; 41 years after submission
The report had made recommendations on curbing illegal immigration, regulating land transfer, defining ‘Assamese’ identity and safeguarding it GUWAHATI: Successive govts in Assam allowed the state’s “land and identity crisis” to fester for four decades while they kept under wraps a report that had flagged it as a ticking time bomb that led to the...
‘To curb cyber fraud’: Govt tightens app security; WhatsApp, Telegram to enforce SIM link
Representative Image NEW DELHI: In just under three months, you will not be able to maintain your desktop/computer login on communication apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal and Snapchat for more than six hours at a stretch. You will have to re-login using the QR code provided by the app provider. Also, if you try...
EC extends SIR deadline by a week, it’s Dec 11 now
NEW DELHI: Election Commission on Sunday extended the timeline for SIR Phase 2 across all 12 states and Union territories, allowing an additional week to booth level officers (BLOs) to share the list of absent, shifted, dead and duplicate electors with booth level agents (BLAs) of political parties prior to publication of the draft electoral...
India’s A320 fleet finishes software fix in just over a day
(Source: Airbus) NEW DELHI: Software rolled back, solar-storm threat neutralised. Indian operators of Airbus A320 jets – IndiGo, Air India and Air India Express – finished reverting flight-control computers to a safer 2022 version in just over a day, heading off widespread groundings feared after the manufacturer raised red flags late Friday.DGCA was informed early...
Para-athlete attacked for taking on group harassing women dies
ROHTAK: A 26-year-old national-level bodybuilder and para-athlete from Haryana’s Rohtak district, who was allegedly attacked for confronting a group of men harassing women at a wedding in Bhiwani, died of his injuries Saturday.Rohit Dhankhar, a resident of Humayunpur village, was a professional bodybuilder who trained members at Gymkhana Club in Rohtak. In 2018, he won...
Shifting visa pattern: H-1B nod for IT firms drops to 4.5k – lowest in a decade
Representative image BENGALURU: The top seven Indian IT firms received only 4,573 H-1B petitions approved for initial employment in FY 2025—a 70% decline from 2015 and 37% fewer than in 2024, according to the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP). The analysis, based on data from the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, shows TCS is...
FM to move bill today for new cess on tobacco, pan masala
NEW DELHI: The Centre is set to levy a new cess on tobacco, tobacco products and pan masala after the phaseout of GST compensation cess to ensure that price of these products do not fall as they are sin goods.At the time of GST revamp, govt had announced continuation of compensation cess only for tobacco...