In a reshuffle, the President announced new governors for 5 states in the country. Kalraj Mishra has been transferred from Himachal Pradesh to Rajasthan. Bhagat Singh Koshyari has been appointed the new Governor of Maharashtra. In Kerala, Arif Mohammed Khan replaces P. Sathasivam. Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan has been made the new governor of Telangana.
Normal life remained affected in Kashmir on the 28th consecutive day on Sunday even as restrictions were eased in 11 more police station areas of the valley, officials said. Now, 82 out of the 105 police station areas have no restrictions, they said. The officials said that the situation remained peaceful across the valley on Saturday and no untoward incident was reported from anywhere.
The country is in the midst of a prolonged slowdown, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said as he held the "all-around mismanagement" by the Modi government responsible for the ongoing economic crisis in the country. "The country has the potential to grow at a much faster rate. Reach out to all sane voices to steer the economy out of this man-made crisis," he said.
A teacher in Rajasthan, Ramesh Chand Meena, booked a rented chopper service from Delhi, for almost Rs 4 lakh to take him back to his residence in Alwar from his school, which is 22km away. "I thoroughly enjoyed the ride. I had a dream to fly in a chopper and it was my wish to take my wife in a helicopter sojourn and that dream has been fulfilled today," said Meena.
Last-minute travellers have helped railways earn a whopping Rs 25,392 crore in the last four years, an RTI has found. The national transporter earned Rs 21,530 crore from Tatkal quota tickets and an additional Rs 3,862 crore from Tatkal Premium tickets between 2016 and 2019, with a massive 62 per cent increase in revenue from the latter during this period.
In a fresh salvo targeting Shashi Tharoor, who had come under attack for his alleged "Modi praise", party colleague K Muraleedharan once again made a veiled attack on the Thiruvananthapuram MP. Without naming Tharoor, he said Congress leader and former MP, late A Charles, who did not know Oxford English, had won the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat three times.
From Sunday, the traffic police can book you and fine you up to Rs 5,000 if you are caught jumping a traffic light, using a mobile phone while driving, overtaking wrongly and driving against the flow of traffic. You could also end up in jail. Penalties for drunk driving, not wearing a helmet or using the seatbelt have also been increased.
As the final Assam NRC was released on Saturday, calls for the same exercise to "weed out foreigners" were heard from several states across the country.
The woman, a student of a college here run by BJP leader Swami Chinmayanand's ashram, had been missing for six days after uploading a video on social media, alleging that "a senior leader of the sant community" was harassing her. She did not name Chinmayanand, a former Union minister. But in a police complaint, her father accused Chinmayanand of sexually harassing his daughter and alleged that he was the reason behind her disappearance.
Since President Sirisena and Prime Minister Wickremesinghe formed the coalition in 2015, an attempt was made to formulate a new Constitution to address the Tamil issue. "These gentlemen in the government wasted the last 4 years trying to bring in a new constitution. They failed the Tamil people. It was not my fault," Sirisena said at a gathering in the Tamil-dominated Jaffna on Friday.
The police told Special CBI Judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar that Pushkar committed suicide because of the mental torture and extra-marital relations. Referring to the autopsy report, Public Prosecutor Atul Shrivastava pressed for framing of murder charges against Tharoor.
The NGO also wondered whether the software used in the updation exercise was capable to handle so much data and if it was examined by any third party Information Technology expert, APW president Aabhijeet Sharma said.
BJP MP Manoj Tiwari on Saturday said that a National Register of Citizens (NRC) is needed in Delhi as lillegal immigrants who have settled here are 'dangerous and the demand will be part of the party's election manifesto for the Assembly polls next year. Speaking to ANI, Tiwari said that the situation of illegal migrants has crossed the danger mark and there is a need to look into the situation.
The IRCTC will levy a service charge of Rs 15 per ticket for non-AC classes and Rs 30 for AC classes, including first class, according to the August 30 order issued by IRCTC. Goods and Services Tax (GST) will be applicable separately. The service charges were withdrawn three years ago to promote digital payments, a pet project of the Narendra Modi-led BJP government.
Have you filed your tax returns? If you don’t do it by tonight, you run the risk of paying up to 10,000 as penalty, not being allowed to carry forward your losses or get interest on refunds from the tax department.
Google celebrated the 100th birth anniversary of Punjabi author, essayist and poet Amrita Pritam. Hailed as the leading 20th-century poet of the Punjabi language, Pritam is best remembered for the poignant poem, 'Ajj aakhaan Waris Shah nu. Amongst her 28 novels, her work 'Pinjar' (1950) is considered to be the best literature written in the backdrop of Partition.
Taking up the language challenge, Tharoor, who is known for his word wizardry, tweeted 'pluralism' in three languages -- English, Hindi and Malayalam. He also said he will tweet a language in the three languages everyday.
“To boost economy a clear message has been have given to the bureaucrats by government that business community which is the wealth creator and tax contributor should be facilitated. There should be no wrong action against them. They should be motivated and regulated” said Thakur.
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra attacked the government over an RBI report showing bank frauds have gone up by 15 per cent year-on-year in 2018-19, asking who is the guarantor allowing such "big bank frauds". The number of cases of frauds reported by banks saw a jump of 15 per cent year-on-year basis in 2018-19, the Reserve Bank of India's annual report showed.
The SC on Friday ordered the UP govt to produce before it the LLM student who had gone missing on Aug 23 after accusing an ex-BJP MP of sexual harassment. The missing Shahjahanpur law student had gone missing after she accused ex-BJP MP Swami Chinmayanand of sexual harassment was earlier today traced by Uttar Pradesh Police to Rajasthan.
Sunny Deol, who was elected as MP from Gurdaspur after defeating Cong's Sunil Jakhar by 82,459 votes in the Lok Sabha polls this year, has come under scrutiny for his lack of attendance in the Lower House. Deflecting the criticism, the actor said he has been doing several things for his constituency without making too much noise about it.
The missing student whose father alleged she was sexually harassed by BJP leader Swami Chinmayanand has been located in Rajasthan, UP Police said on Friday. "In Shahjahanpur episode the girl has been located by police in Rajasthan along with her friend. Necessary legal action is being taken," the police said.
The corridor will connect Darbar Sahib in Pakistan's Kartarpur with Dera Baba Nanak shrine in Gurdaspur district and facilitate visa-free movement of Indian Sikh pilgrims, who will have to just obtain a permit to visit Kartarpur Sahib, which was established in 1522 by Sikh faith founder Guru Nanak Dev.
Along with many known and unknown affiliates of the RSS, one that works for the minorities, particularly Muslims, is the Muslim Rashtriya Manch or Muslim National Forum. The scope of the organization remains minimal and the goal simple: reach out to liberal muslims, win their trust and bring them to Indic values as close as possible.
Addressing the gathering at the convocation ceremony of Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University in Gandhinagar, Ambani said: "Amit bhai, you are a true karmyogi, you are truly Iron Man of our country. Gujarat, and now India, is blessed to have a leader like you."
There must be enough civility in public life for differing streams to be able to hear each other’s point of view, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday. The Prime Minister advocated the necessity of exchange of ideas between schools of different thoughts and asserted that people need to leave their comfort zones to be able to listen to the "other" point of view.
Fresh restrictions were imposed in the city and other parts of the Kashmir Valley as a preventive measure ahead of Friday congregational prayers, officials said. Restrictions under Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure ( CrPc) were announced on public address system. People have been asked not to venture outside and barricades have been placed.
Senior Congress leader and former Karnataka minister D K Shivakumar said the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued fresh summons, asking him to appear before it in Delhi on Friday. The ED move comes after the Karnataka high court had on Thursday dismissed Shivakumar's petition challenging the summons issued to him in a money-laundering case.
Former finance minister P Chidambaram on Thursday offered in the Supreme Court to remain in CBI's custody till September 2 in the INX Media corruption case. Chidambaram, who was arrested on August 21, is in the CBI custody till Friday and will be produced before the concerned trial court on expiry of his remand.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted heavy rainfall over Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh on Friday. The weather forecasting agency has also predicted heavy downpour in Andaman & Nicobar Islands and East Rajasthan.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday conducted searches at five locations based on warrants issued by a special NIA court, Ernakulam, it said in a release. The suspects were being questioned about their association with the arrested persons and their involvement in the conspiracy aimed at furthering the objectives of the Islamic State, NIA said.Top opposition figures, including Congress's Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, NCP patriarch Sharad Pawar and Le...
