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The Supreme Court Thursday gave clean chit to the Modi government on the purchase of 36 fully loaded Rafale fighter jets from French company Dassault Aviation, rejecting the plea for registration of an FIR by the CBI for alleged commission of cognisable offence in the deal. The apex court dismissed the pleas seeking review of the December 14, 2018 verdict ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, after conducting an aerial survey of cyclone ‘Bulbul’-hit areas in North 24 Parganas, said on Wednesday that the loss incurred by the state due to the natural calamity might go up to Rs 50,000 crore. Banerjee handed over a cheque of Rs 2.4 lakh each to the family members of five people from the ...

Amid the ongoing political deadlock in Maharashtra, President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday signed a proclamation for imposing President’s rule in the state and the state assembly would remain in suspended state after that. Earlier, the Union Cabinet had recommended the imposition of President’s rule in Maharashtra. After the assembly elections held last month in the state, no party could ...

Hundreds of students protested near the Jawaharlal Nehru University here on Monday against the administration’s “anti-students” policy. Students wanted to march towards the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), where Vice President Venkaiah Naidu is addressing the university’s convocation at an auditorium. The gates of the AICTE, around 3 km from the JNU, were locked and the security personnel ...

The Meteorological (MeT) department has predicted rain and snowfall in Himachal Pradesh this weekend. Rain and snowfall may occur at isolated places in the high hills, while rainfall and thunderstorm may take place in middle hills from November 14 to 16, Shimla MeT Centre Director Manmohan Singh said on Sunday. With minus 6.9 degrees Celsius, tribal district Lahaul and Spiti’s ...

A Goa-bound man was apprehended at the Delhi airport for allegedly carrying 10 bullets in his baggage, an official said. Passenger R P Mishra was going through security checks at the Indira Gandhi International Airport around 11 am on Friday when a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel detected “bullet-like objects” in his hand baggage, he said. “Ten live bullets ...

The hearing in the politically and religiously sensitive decades-old temple-mosque land dispute in Ayodhya was the second longest proceedings in the history of the Supreme Court which had lasted for 40 days. The high voltage hearing in the Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute involving 2.77 acres of land had commenced on August 6 and concluded on October 16, and the apex ...

Alternative land for mosque The Supreme Court on Saturday paved the way for the construction of a Ram Temple by a Trust at the disputed site at Ayodhya, and directed the Centre to allot an alternative 5-acre plot to the Sunni Waqf Board for building a new mosque at a “prominent” place in the holy town in Uttar Pradesh. In ...

The second edition of the ‘Bajaj Allianz Pune Half Marathon’ will be held on December 22, the organisers announced on Friday. Apart from the half marathon (21.1 km), the other three runs are – 10 km run, 5 km, and 3 km. Pradeep Singh (1:06:08) and Manisha Salunkhe (1:22:20) had won the first edition of half marathon in the men’s ...

Angry over the dispute with lawyers at Tis Hazari Court, the policemen ended the picket after about 11 hours. After assurances from top officials, the policemen decided to end the picket. An official said that the demands of the protesting policemen have been accepted. However, they have not received the written assurance they were seeking. In fact, the dispute between ...