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The tri-weekly Delhi-Amritsar-Birmingham Air India flight would resume services on August 15, said Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Wednesday after Pakistan opened its airspace for civilian planes. Pakistan had shut its airspace in February after the Balakot strike by the Indian Air Force, resulting in a significant rise of Air India’s operating costs on flights connecting Delhi to ...

The heavy rainfall created flood like situation and threw normal life out of gear in various parts of the Country. NDRF teams are relentlessly continuing rescue operations in the flood affected areas of Assam & Bihar NDRF rescuers are ferrying the people in Inflatable Rubber Boats (IRBs) to safer places and distributing the essential supplies like food packets, drinking water ...

Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Monday informed Rajya Sabha that fuel conforming to stringent BS-VI emission norms has been introduced in the national capital to reduce air pollution. The Minister also informed the Upper House that sale of BS-VI compliant vehicles would begin in the country from next year. “BS-VI compliant fuel is now available in Delhi and from next ...

A 14-year-old student of a government school was injured after a ceiling fan allegedly fell on his head in east Delhi’s Trilokpuri, police said on Wednesday. A senior official from the Directorate of Education said the blade of the fan fell on the student’s head. According to the police, the incident took place on Tuesday afternoon and the teenager was ...

A Multi Disciplinary Terror Monitoring Group (TMG) has been constituted in the State of Jammu and Kashmir. TMG has been constituted to ensure synergized and concerted action against terror financing and other terror related activities in the State of Jammu and Kashmir. The Government has adopted a policy of zero tolerance towards terrorism. Effective response is given by the security ...

The Aam Aadmi Party announced a new set of in-charges for the party’s 14 Delhi districts units on Saturday in a bid to strengthen the outfit at the grassroots level in the run up to the Assembly election, due early next year. The restructuring of the party organisation is aimed at kick-starting the preparations for the Assembly election. In the ...

Home Minister Amit Shah Friday moved a statutory resolution in the Lok Sabha to extend President’s Rule in Jammu and Kashmir for a period of six months. Moving the resolution, he said since the state assembly has been dissolved and the Election Commission has decided to hold fresh elections in Jammu and Kashmir later this year, it is essential that ...

At least 76 people have died in three districts of Bihar, as a searing heatwave swept most parts of the state, prompting the government to order closure of academic activities in all schools till June 22, officials said on Monday. The Disaster Management Department said 33 people lost their lives in Aurangabad, 31 in Gaya and 12 in Nawada due ...

The Jammu and Kashmir administration has approved the second phase of a comprehensive plan for flood management work on the Jhelum river at a cost of over Rs 5,400 crore, an official spokesman said on Saturday. The State Administrative Council (SAC), which met here under the chairmanship of Governor Satya Pal Malik on Friday evening, accorded in-principle approval to the ...

The fury of the brain fever spread in Muzaffarpur and its surrounding districts is not taking the name of stoppage. The series of death continues. Regular new patients are also emerging. On the 14th day, 11 more children died on Friday. With this, the death figure reached 83. 38 and six new children were admitted in SKMCH and Kejriwal Hospital ...