Jaipur, Jun 6 (PTI) Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma announced on Friday that the Rajasthan government will send 50,000 senior citizens on pilgrimage by AC trains this year. Sharma was speaking at the launch of the 'Senior Citizen Pilgrimage Scheme 2025-26' here. He also flagged off the first AC 'Rajasthan Vahini Bharat Gaurav Tourist Train' under the scheme from Durgapura railway station, according to an official statement. Senior citizens will travel to the pilgrimage sites of Rameswaram and ...Read More
New Delhi, Jun 6 (PTI) Two men have been arrested for allegedly duping a serving Agniveer of over Rs 82,000 by asking for his mobile phone on the pretext of making a call, police said on Friday. The incident took place on May 18, when Abhishek, posted in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur, was approached near Metro Gate No 4 of the New Delhi Railway Station by a man who claimed to have lost his phone and wallet, they said. The man requested Abhishek to let him use his mobile phone to make an emergen...Read More
New Delhi, Jun 6 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said he will attend the G7 summit in Canada this month after receiving an invitation from his Canadian counterpart Mark Carney during their first phone conversation. Carney's invitation to Modi to attend the outreach sessions of the G7 Summit signalled Ottawa's intent to repair the ties with New Delhi that plummeted to an all-time low over the killing of a Khalistani separatist. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said Modi and C...Read More
Katra (J-K), Jun 6 (PTI) Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha and Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw undertook a ride in Self-Propelled Inspection Car (SPIC) from Katra in Reasi district to Nowgam Station in Srinagar on Friday, an official said. Sinha and Vaishnaw took the rail ride after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the much-awaited Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Railway Link (USBRL) connecting Kashmir valley with the rest of the country. The Lt Governor inspected all tunnels and...Read More
Chandigarh, Jun 6 (PTI) The Punjab government on Friday placed under suspension Ludhiana Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Vigilance Jagatpreet Singh with a minister claiming that the officer issued summons to the Congress candidate who is contesting the Ludhiana West bypoll to "favour" him. The bypoll to Ludhiana West assembly seat will take place on June 19 and the counting will be held on June 23. The seat fell vacant following the death of AAP MLA Gurpreet Bassi Gogi in January. Aam Aa...Read More
Hyderabad, Jun 6 (PTI) Telugu actor Akhil Akkineni tied the knot with artist Zainab Ravdjee at a traditional ceremony held here on Friday. Sharing the news on X, the actor's father and superstar Nagarjuna said, "With immense joy, Amala and I are delighted to share that our dear son has married his beloved Zainab in a beautiful ceremony (3.35 am) at our home, where our hearts belong. We watched a dream come true surrounded by love, laughter, and those dearest to us." "We seek your blessings as t...Read More
New Delhi, Jun 6 (PTI) Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said India is receiving FDI inflows from 112 countries compared to 89 in 2013-14, underscoring the country's rising global appeal. Speaking virtually in an FDI roundtable here, he said the government is committed to making India the world's most preferred investment destination. The roundtable was chaired by Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) Secretary Amardeep Singh Bhatia. Bhatia invite...Read More
New Delhi, Jun 6 (PTI) The Delhi government has rolled out guidelines for tree officers to enforce certain sections of the Delhi Preservation of Trees Act (DPTA), 1994, officials said. Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa said Section 8 of the DPTA mandates that no tree shall be felled, removed or disposed of without prior permission from the tree officer. However, it provides an exception for emergency cases, where a tree poses an immediate danger to life, property or traffic, he explai...Read More
Berhampur (Odisha), Jun 6 (PTI) Environmental activist Medha Patkar on Saturday appealed to the people of Odisha for protection of Rushikulya river. The government planned to construct a dam in the river Pipalapnaka under Sorada block in the district. While participating in the Save Rushikulya river movement in Ganjam district, she said, "Rivers may be small or big, but they are our mother. We have to protect the rivers from attacks." She attended a meeting were organised by the Rushikulya Ban...Read More
New Delhi, Jun 6 (PTI) Chartered accountants' apex body ICAI on Friday issued the draft overseas networking guidelines for domestic chartered accountant firms. The move is part of continuing efforts to expand the reach of chartered accountant firms and create large domestic entities that will be capable of competing globally. "These guidelines are meant to promote networking amongst one or more chartered accountant firm (s) registered with ICAI with networks or entities established and registe...Read More
Mumbai, Jun 6 (PTI) The first 'Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Circuit Train Tour' has received overwhelming response as all the seats have been booked ahead of the scheduled departure on June 9, the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited said on Friday. In a release, IRCTC, a 'Navratna' PSU under the railway ministry, said all 710 seats have been booked in 11 coaches. These comprise 480 in the Economy (Sleeper) category, 190 in Comfort (3AC) and 40 in Superior (2AC), indicating s...Read More
New Delhi, Jun 6 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Friday cancelled the bail granted to former Karnataka minister Vinay Kulkarni in connection with a 2016 case related to the murder of BJP worker Yogesh Gowda. A bench of justices Sanjay Karol and Satish Chandra Sharma passed the order while noting that there was sufficient material on record to suggest that attempts were made by Kulkarni to either contact the witnesses or alternatively, influence them. "Keeping in mind the totality of circumstances, ...Read More
Bhubaneswar, Jun 6 (PTI) The state-run Odisha Hydro Power Corporation (OHPC) on Friday signed an MoU with central enterprise Water and Power Consultancy Services (WAPCOS) Ltd for project management for the upper Indravati pumped storage venture. The agreement was signed here in the presence of Deputy Chief Minister Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo and Development Commissioner Anu Garg for project management consultancy services for the 600 MW upper Indravati pumped storage project (UIPSP) at Mukhiguda i...Read More
New Delhi, Jun 6 (PTI) Five Central Asian states on Friday joined India in strongly condemning the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack and demanded that the perpetrators, financiers and sponsors of terrorist acts be held accountable and punished. The challenge of how to combat terrorism figured prominently at the fourth edition of the India-Central Asia Dialogue hosted by New Delhi, with a focus on expanding the overall trajectory of cooperation between the two sides in several key areas. External...Read More
Guwahati, Jun 6 (PTI) Assam's flood situation remained critical on Friday with over 4.43 lakh people in 16 districts still suffering from the deluge even as major rivers, including the Brahmaputra, were showing a receding trend, according to an official bulletin. There was no report of fatality due to the floods during the day, though a person was reported missing in Kamrup (Metro). The current first wave of floods, along with landslides, triggered by heavy rainfall, has so far claimed 21 live...Read More
Nagpur, Jun 6 (PTI) Twelve hardcore Naxalites, carrying a collective reward of more than Rs 1 crore, on Friday laid down their arms and surrendered in the presence of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in Gadchiroli district of the state. Talking to reporters on the occasion, the CM said the surrender of Naxalites shows they have lost trust in the outlawed movement. Gadchiroli in the state's Vidarbha region is among the Left Wing Extremism (LWE)-affected areas of the country. Fadnav...Read More
Mathura, Jun 6 (PTI) A 38-year-old cricketer with disability died on the Korba-bound Chhattisgarh Express he had boarded to go to Gwalior, railway officials said on Friday. Vikram reportedly complained of a severe headache and anxiety shortly after the train left a station from Delhi. He had left for Gwalio from Ludhiana to participate in a cricket tournament, and was travelling in the Divyangjan coach with five other team members. Pragati Srivastava, PRO of the Agra Division of North Central ...Read More
Bengaluru, Jun 6 (PTI) Karnataka BJP general secretary P Rajeev on Friday said he has filed a police complaint seeking legal action against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, his deputy D K Shivakumar and Home Minister G Parameshwara for the June 4 stampede that killed 11 people. The stampede occurred on Wednesday evening in front of the Chinnaswamy stadium here, where a large number of people thronged to participate in the RCB team's IPL victory celebrations. Eleven people died and 56 were injured i...Read More
Hyderabad, Jun 6 (PTI) BJP Lok Sabha MP Eatala Rajender on Friday appeared before the judicial commission probing the alleged irregularities in the Kaleshwaram irrigation project in Telangana. Rajender, who was a BRS leader before joining BJP in 2021, had served as Finance Minister in the government headed by former Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao. Speaking to reporters later, he said he was asked 11-12 questions by the panel and that he answered all of them. The BJP leader clarified that ...Read More
New Delhi, Jun 6 (PTI) An Apache helicopter of the Indian Air Force (IAF) made a "precautionary landing" in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur on Friday due to a technical issue while on a routine sortie, officials said. Both the pilot and the co-pilot are safe, they said. An IAF Apache helicopter made a "precautionary landing" in Saharanpur around 11 am due to a technical issue, a senior IAF official said. All necessary checks were conducted after the landing and the helicopter was made serviceable....Read More
Mumbai, Jun 6 (PTI) A special CBI court on Friday remanded a junior engineer at Garrison Engineer office in Mumbai's Navy Nagar to police custody till June 9 in a bribery case. Dinesh Pandey was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 4.5 lakh from a contractor to clear a building repair bill. The CBI told court Pandey was caught red-handed and the bribe amount of Rs 3.4 lakh was recovered from a cupboard in his office in Naval Officers...Read More
Kota, Jun 6 (PTI) A relationship manager in an ICICI bank branch in Kota allegedly swindled around Rs 4.58 crore from customers' accounts only to lose the lot of it in the stock market, police on Friday said. She was arrested last week and is currently under judicial custody, they said. The accused, Sakshi Gupta, was posted as a relationship manager at ICICI Bank's DCM branch. Police said she had been pilfering from more than 110 accounts belonging to 41 customers for around two and a half ye...Read More
Kota, Jun 6 (PTI) A relationship manager in an ICICI bank branch in Kota allegedly swindled around Rs 4.58 crore from customers' accounts only to lose the lot of it in the stock market, police on Friday said. She was arrested last week and is currently under judicial custody, they said. Also Read | Bengaluru Stampede: Police Complaint Lodged Against Virat Kohli Over Stampede Tragedy Near Chinnaswamy Stadium. The accused, Sakshi Gupta, was posted as a relationship manager at ICICI Bank's DCM b...Read More
New Delhi, Jun 6 (PTI) Delhi government plans to roll out 100 electric inter-state buses under DTC on 17 routes, including the ones that connect to important religious and pilgrimage destinations, according to an official statement. Health and Transport Minister Pankaj Kumar Singh chaired a high-level meeting of the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) Board to review key initiatives aimed at transforming public transport in the capital, the statement read. During the meeting, the board informed ...Read More
Jammu, Jun 6 (PTI) Veteran Congress leader and former 'Sadr-e-Riyasat' of Jammu and Kashmir Karan Singh on Friday termed the start of Kashmir rail service as "truly historic moment" in the region's history. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday flagged off specially designed Vande Bharat trains from Katra to Srinagar and Srinagar to Katra, marking the completion of Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link connecting Kashmir with the rest of the country. Karan Singh, the son of the last Dogra rul...Read More
Siwan (Bihar), Jun 6 (PTI) Weeks after his two-day trip to Bihar, where assembly elections are due later this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Siwan district on June 20 to address a rally, state BJP chief Dilip Kumar Jaiswal said here on Friday. The proposed trip will be the prime minister's third visit to Bihar since April 24, when he had toured Madhubani after the Pahalgam terror attack. Modi was on a two-day visit to Patna and Bikramganj in Rohtas district on May 29 and 30, aft...Read More
New Delhi, Jun 6 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday that India deeply cherishes its historical ties with the countries of Central Asia after he met the foreign ministers of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. In a post on X, he said that India and these Central Asian countries stand firm and resolute in their collective fight against terrorism. He said, "India deeply cherishes its historical ties with the countries of Central Asia. Look forward ...Read More
New Delhi, Jun 6 (PTI) Delhi Police is likely to question several inmates who were inside the Saket court lockup when an undertrial was killed by two others, sources said on Friday. According to police, there were over 30 inmates in the lockup when the attack took place. An undertrial prisoner, Aman (24), who was brought to the Saket court for a hearing on Thursday was killed inside its lockup allegedly by two other inmates, Jitender alias Jitte and Jaidev alias Baccha, who kicked him and smas...Read More
Srinagar, Jun 6 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagging off the maiden Vande Bharat train to Kashmir on Friday was not just an Eid gift for the people of the Valley, but also a historic moment connecting the residents of this mountainous region with the plains of the country. Besides providing a reliable, all-weather mode of transport, the train is expected to be fast and affordable and boost tourism and trade in Kashmir. The prime minister flagged off the train from the Katra railway stat...Read More
Kolkata, Jun 6 (PTI) The Trinamool Congress on Friday claimed that senior BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya's comment on women's clothes reveals the misogynist and patriarchal mindset of the saffron party. The ruling party of West Bengal also wondered if Prime Minister Narendra Modi agrees with the "regressive mindset" of Vijayvargiya, a cabinet minister of Madhya Pradesh. Addressing a programme in Indore on Thursday, Vijayvargiya said he disapproves of the trend of women wearing "skimpy clothes...Read More