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Flight Delayed due to Covid-19 Passenger On-board

NEW DELHI, Mar 5: A Pune-bound Indigo flight was delayed by more than two hours before the plane was fumigated and all the covers changed after a passenger on-board announced that he was Covid-19 positive. Unprecedented chaos was witnessed in the plane as it was about to take off from the Indira Gandhi International Airport […]

SAARC Diary: Jaishankar in Bangladesh, to Hold Bilateral Talks

NEW DELHI, Mar 4: Dr S Jaishankar, India’s External Affairs Minister, reached Bangladesh on Thursday on an official invitation from his Bangladeshi counterpart, AK Abdul Momen, ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s expected visit.  Jaishankar will meet the country’s top leaders to address regional and international issues. Momen received Jaishankar at Dhaka’s Kurmitola air force […]

No Need to Visit RTOs for Driving License Renewal Any More

NEW DELHI, Mar 4: People will no longer be required to visit the regional transport offices (RTOs) for availing services like renewal of driver’s license, vehicle registration and obtaining a learners’ permit. The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) on Thursday released a notification stating that contactless services via Aadhar authentication has been […]

Employees Provident Fund: 8.5% Interest Retained

NEW DELHI, Mar 4: The Central Board of Trustees of the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) on Thursday recommended that the 8.5% interest rate for PF contributions to the subscribers be retained for 2020-2021 as in the previous year. At a meeting in Srinagar, the board, chaired by Labour and Employment Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar, […]

Bengaluru, Shimla “Most Livable Cities”: Centre

NEW DELHI, Mar 4: Bengaluru in the category of more than one million population and Shimla in the category of less than one million population were on Thursday ranked as the most livable cities by the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry’s Ease of Living Index. The Ease of Living Index 2020, in which 111 […]

Women Stripped and Forced to Dance Claim “Untrue”: Maharashtra Government

MUMBAI, Mar 4: The Maharashtra government has declared as “untrue” the claim that some policemen had forced some women to strip and dance in a women’s hostel in Jalgaon. The issue had surfaced in the Maharashtra state Assembly on Wednesday after which the state government had formed a high powered committee to inquire into the […]

Bomb Hoax in Taj Mahal, Reopened after Two Hours

NEW DELHI, Mar 4: A bomb scare led to emptying of the entire Taj Mahal complex of tourists but reopened after about two hours after it was found to be a hoax call. The police quickly identified the caller and picked him up from Firozpur. The police sources later said the man was of unsound […]

Covaxin: Phase 3 Clinical Trial Shows 81% Efficacy

NEW DELHI, Mar 3: India-made COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin has demonstrated an interim clinical efficacy of 81% in its Phase 3 clinical trial, vaccine maker Bharat Biotech said. Covaxin has demonstrated high clinical efficacy trend against COVID-19 as well as significant immunogenicity against the rapidly emerging variants, CMD Krishna Ella said. A statement from Bharat Biotech, […]

Girls Allegedly Stripped and Forced to Dance in Jalgaon

NEW DELHI, Mar 3: The Maharashtra government has formed a four-member high-level committee to conduct a probe into an incident where girls were allegedly stripped and forced to dance by policemen at a hostel in Jalgaon, Home Minister Anil Deshmukh told the state Assembly on Wednesday. The minister made the announcement after the issue was […]

Minister Resigns after Allegation of Sex Scandal in Karnataka

NEW DELHI, Mar 3: The Karnataka minister for major and medium irrigation Ramesh Jarkiholi submitted his resignation from the BS Yediyurappa cabinet following an allegation of sex scandal. His resignation comes in the wake of purported video clips that showed Jarkiholi getting intimate with a young unidentified woman, and audio conversations between the two, being […]
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