NEW DELHI: IndiGo on Tuesday said it will temporarily discontinue its wide-body flight operations to and from Manchester from Aug 31, citing longer flight routes due to airspace restrictions amid the Iran conflict, rising aviation turbine fuel (ATF) costs, and forex volatility.The budget airline will return one of the six Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft it…
NEW DELHI: Several premises of industrialist Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta Ltd in Delhi, Mumbai and Udaipur were on Monday searched by Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a suspected FEMA violation case involving transactions related to brand royalty between the UK-based Vedanta Resources and its Indian subsidiary Vedanta Ltd.The enforcement agency officials carried out a survey, searching for…
NEW DELHI: CJI Surya Kant on Tuesday administered oath to five new Supreme Court judges — Justices Sheel Nagu, Sree Chandrashekhar, Sanjeev Sachdeva, Arun Palli and V S Mohana — taking the working strength of SC judges to a record 37 with one vacancy.The entire process — involving the recommendation of names by the five-member…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has set aside a home ministry order rejecting the voluntary retirement request of Maharashtra cadre IPS officer Abdur Rahman, who faced various charges, including torturing a person in 2014, contracting a second marriage without the consent of his first wife in 2016 and giving a speech in violation of rules in…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has closed a coal block allocation case registered by CBI more than a decade ago against Hindalco Industries and discharged the company and its former president and CEO S K Tamotia and former general manager (Corporate Affairs) PRS Mani, reports Koushiki Saha.Special judge (PC Act) Dheeraj Mor held that prima…
NEW DELHI: Deliberating on the right of an accused to bail, particularly in serious offences, Supreme Court Tuesday said personal liberty would have to take back seat if it is pitted against India’s sovereignty, and pointed out a lack of uniform application of prolonged incarceration as grounds for bail has resulted in similarly situated persons…
Meet me at the airport.” That’s the call to supporters from Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke, who intends to return from the US on June 6, “fully aware I may be arrested on landing”. Dipke’s plan “is to lead a peaceful protest demanding immediate resignation of education minister Dharmendra Pradhan over repeated examination failures”.Protest…
NEW DELHI : After registering a dip in March and April due to disruptions in supply flows amid West Asia conflict, crude oil and LPG supplies to India improved in May, though they were yet to return to pre-conflict levels, ship-tracking data from Kpler has revealed.While India’s crude imports, which fell from 5.2 million barrels…
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Tuesday removed CBSE chairperson Rahul Singh and secretary Himanshu Gupta from their posts with immediate effect and ordered a one-member inquiry into the procurement of the digital evaluation (on-screen marking) system.The appointments committee of Cabinet approved the appointment of Lokhande Prashant Sitaram, additional secretary in the ministry of home affairs,…
NEW DELHI: A potentially debilitating wave of alleged cyberattacks struck CBSE’s newly launched Class 12 verification and re-evaluation portal within hours of its activation on Tuesday, raising fresh concerns over the cybersecurity preparedness of India’s high-stakes examination infrastructure and the safety of sensitive student data linked to the board’s on-screen marking (OSM) system.CBSE said the…