Spread the love       NEW DELHI: Union petroleum minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Monday India’s strategic petroleum reserve can last up to 74 days to meet demand caused by any global crisis. “Together, if you look at the reserves in our caverns and what is held by our refineries and floating platforms at our ports and our products, it comes...

Spread the love       NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday asked the West Bengal police chief to file a personal affidavit responding to Election Commission’s allegation that governing party TMC functionaries were making systematic, deliberate and concerted attempts to “derail, paralyse and frustrate” the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Though state counsel Menaka Guruswamy strongly refuted the charges, its...

Spread the love       NEW DELHI: Nearly two-thirds of workers believe that working conditions will improve with enhanced rest periods and leave practices, and foresee improvement in income security due to wage transparency, once the four new labour codes are fully implemented. A similar share of employers believe that the new codes will enhance ease of doing business due to streamlining...

Spread the love       NEW DELHI: India announced a special economic package worth $175 million for Seychelles as PM Narendra Modi hosted President Patrick Herminie for a bilateral meeting, reiterating India’s continued support and assistance to the Indian Ocean neighbour in meeting its maritime security and defence needs. Modi said that the package in the form of a $125 million line...

Spread the love       TARN TARAN: A 20-year-old law student shot dead a female classmate inside a college classroom and then turned the gun on himself as others scattered in terror at Mai Bhago Law College in Tarn Taran on Monday. Both of them were in the first semester.The shooter, Prince Raj, is in an extremely critical condition. Victim Sandeep Kaur’s...

Spread the love       BENGALURU: Isro, which has been analysing the data from the failed PSLV-C62 from Jan 12, is expected to formally constitute a Failure Analysis Committee (FAC) to investigate the causes for the mishap and recommend corrective measures soon.It has been nearly a month since the failure, the second for PSLV in as many attempts, and so far, the...

Spread the love       Did Cardi B call Stefon Diggs “a disgrace to the game” after the Patriots’ Super Bowl loss?(Image via CBS and Getty Images) Stefon Diggs, the New England Patriots’ star player, and Cardi B sparked panic after the two removed each other from their respective social media accounts as the New England Patriots witnessed a brutal loss against...

Spread the love       Priyanka Gandhi Vadra NEW DELHI: Women MPs belonging to Congress told Speaker Om Birla Monday that under pressure from the govt, he made “false, baseless and defamatory allegations” that PM Modi faced potential threat from them, because of which he did not come to LS to reply to the motion of thanks. In a letter to Birla,...

Spread the love       Rahul Gandhi NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha discussion on the Budget continued to be mired in the standoff between govt and the opposition, with LoP Rahul Gandhi‘s insistence on being allowed to raise a few issues and govt’s refusal to heed his plea stalling the transaction of business for the sixth consecutive day on Monday. Amid the...

Spread the love       Sharad Pawar PUNE: NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar was Monday evening admitted to a private hospital with complaints of chest congestion. Doctors said his condition is stable. The 85-year-old RS member was accompanied by wife Pratibha Pawar, daughter Supriya Sule, son-in-law Sadanand Sule and grandnephew Rohit Pawar to Ruby Hall Clinic around 4pm. The hospital, in a...