Panaji: The Goa Tourism Department, Tuesday demolished `Romeo Lane', a beach shack illegally constructed at Vagator by the fugitive owners of the fire-ravaged nightclub at Arpora. Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, who are on the run following the fire tragedy at Birch by Romeo Lane club...
New Delhi: Bangladesh Tuesday repatriated 47 Indian fishermen while India released 38 Bangladeshi fishermen. The process of reciprocal repatriation of fishermen in each other's custody came amid frosty ties between the two countries. "The two governments successfully concluded the release and repatriation of 47 Indian...
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha witnessed a stormy debate as Congress MP Rahul Gandhi launched a fierce attack on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), accusing it of “systematically seeking to dominate India’s institutions”, and said that there is "no bigger anti-national act than vote chori.”...
New Delhi: There is no conclusive data available in the country to establish a direct correlation of death/disease exclusively due to air pollution, Minister of State for Health, Prataprao Jadhav, told the Rajya Sabha Tuesday. Air pollution is one of the triggering factors for respiratory...
Mumbai: IndiGo cancelled 422 flights from six metro airports Tuesday, as the disruption in the crisis-hit airline prolonged for the eighth consecutive day, according to sources. Of the 422 flights cancelled, Delhi Airport witnessed 152 flight cancellations and 121 at Bengaluru Airport, they said. The...
Jakarta: A fire ripped through an office building in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, Tuesday, killing at least 22 people, including a pregnant woman, police said. Flames engulfed the seven-story building, sending thick black smoke billowing into the sky and causing panic among nearby residents and workers...
New Delhi: Giving a major jolt to Maoists, the security forces have neutralised 29 top Naxal leaders since 2019, with 14 Central Committee Members (CCM) and Politburo members (PBM) killed this year alone, Lok Sabha was informed Tuesday. Responding to a supplementary during the Question...
Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has ordered authorities to demolish the illegal 'Romeo Lane' beach shack at Vagator, owned by the fugitive owners of the fire-ravaged nightclub, after completing all formalities Tuesday. This shack is the third property owned by Saurabh Luthra and Gaurav...
New Delhi: No airline, however large, will be permitted to cause hardship to passengers through planning failures and non-compliance with regulations, Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu said Tuesday on the mass disruptions in IndiGo flight schedules. Making a statement in the Lok Sabha, Naidu...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday took serious note of BLOs and other officials engaged in SIR 2.0 being "threatened" in West Bengal and other states, and asked the Election Commission to bring such instances to its notice or "it will cause anarchy". A bench...
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