New Delhi, Jul 1 (PTI) Hectic negotiations between India and the US enter the sixth day on Tuesday in Washington, with the talks reaching a crucial stage and New Delhi demanding greater market access for its labour-intensive goods, an official said. The Indian team, headed by special secretary in the Department of Commerce Rajesh Agrawal, is in Washington for negotiations on an interim trade agreement with the US. The stay of the Indian officials has been extended. Initially, the delegation wa...Read More
Shimla, Jul 1 (PTI) Cloudbursts and flash floods triggered by heavy overnight rains battered Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district, leaving five people dead, five injured and 16 missing, officials said on Tuesday. The state witnessed 11 cloudburst incidents, four flash floods and a major landslide on Tuesday, most of them in Mandi district, disrupting normal life. Mandi received extensively high rainfall of 253.8 mm since Monday evening. The MeT office has issued an 'orange' warning for heavy to ...Read More
Bengaluru, Jul 1 (PTI) A lawyer for Elon Musk's X told the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday that if every "Tom, Dick and Harry" government official is authorised to send content takedown notices then it would amount to misuse of official powers, remarks that drew strong condemnation from the Centre as well as the judge. The remarks were made when X Corp India, the Indian arm of the social media platform 'X' (formerly Twitter), informed the court that it had recently received a notice from the Mi...Read More
Bhubaneswar, Jul 1 (PTI) A total of 363 graduate students have been admitted to IIM Sambalpur for MBA courses for the academic year 2025-27, an official said on Tuesday. In the latest admissions cycle for the academic year (2025-2027), the IIM has reported a slight increase of 5 per cent in the number of engineers admitted compared to non-engineers, the institute said in a statement. Of the total 363 graduates admitted across both the MBA programmes, 186, which constitute 51.24 per cent of the...Read More
Shillong, Jul 1 (PTI) Tensions flared in the high-security government secretariat here on Tuesday as hawkers staged a protest at the main entrance following an ongoing eviction drive. The Meghalaya and Greater Shillong Progressive Hawkers and Street Vendors Association (MGSPHSVA) demonstrated against the eviction drive carried out by the Shillong Municipal Board (SMB) and the Urban Affairs Department. The protesters carrying placards raised slogans as the SMB targets hawkers operating without ...Read More
New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University will conduct its own entrance exam -- JNUEE -- for admissions in PhD courses for Korean Studies and Cinema Studies, which are not covered under the UGC-NET, while admissions for all other doctoral degree courses will be based on NET scores. According to university sources, the decision to hold JNUEE for these two programmes was taken by the respective schools. "All the deans have accepted and signed the process. This decision is their own, not of the vice...Read More
Guwahati, Jul 1 (PTI) At least 133 people were apprehended on Tuesday for their role in alleged violation of the Assam Cattle Preservation Act and over one tonne of suspected beef were seized across the state, a senior police officer said. According to Inspector General Police (Law and Order) Akhilesh Kumar Singh, a suo-motu drive was initiated across the state to check reported incidents of illegal cattle slaughter and selling of beef in restaurants unauthorisedly. Consumption of beef is not ...Read More
Mumbai, Jul 1 (PTI) Veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah on Tuesday came under attack from a BJP MLA in Maharashtra for defending Punjabi singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh over collaboration with Pakistani actor Hania Aamir in his movie Sardaar Ji 3. Shah had shared his views in a Facebook post on Monday, which he later deleted. Talking to reporters in Vidhan Bhawan premises in south Mumbai, BJP MLA Ram Kadam termed Shah's remarks anti-Hindu and sought a public apology from the veteran actor. Shah had hu...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 1 (PTI) There is a "very strong opinion" within the Maharashtra Congress that the party should go solo in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections, former chief minister Prithviraj Chavan said on Tuesday. His remarks came a day after the Congress said it will decide on July 7 whether it will fight the BMC elections in alliance or go it solo in the contest. In an interview with PTI, Chavan also said that in local body elections to zila parishads and panchayat samiti...Read More
Bengaluru, Jul 1 (PTI) Challenging the authority of the government officials to issue content take-down notices under Information Technology Act, social media giant 'X' on Tuesday argued in Karnataka High Court "What if every Tom, Dick and Harry officer sends notices?" The Union government and the court took strong objection to the language. 'X' Corp informed the court that it had recently received a notice from the Ministry of Railways seeking the removal of a video showing a woman driving a c...Read More
Chennai/Sivaganga, Jul 1 (PTI) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Tuesday ordered transferring to the CBI the probe into the Sivaganga custodial death of a 29-year-old man as the opposition mounted pressure seeking central agency investigation. The state government also initiated action against policemen, including putting the district police chief on "compulsory wait". Also, a DSP was placed under suspension. The CM said he was anguished to know that Ajithkumar, picked up for enquiry die...Read More
Bhubaneswar, Jul 1 (PTI) The Odisha Vigilance on Tuesday arrested a senior officer after detecting in his possession assets disproportionate to his known sources of income, officials said. "Dayanidhi Bagh, joint director, Soil Conservation & Watershed Development, Bhubaneswar has been placed under arrest by Odisha Vigilance for possession of disproportionate assets and will be forwarded to the court of Special Judge, Vigilance, Bhawanipatna," an official statement said. The Vigilance Departmen...Read More
Kolkata, Jul 1 (PTI) A remark by West Bengal Irrigation Minister Manas Bhunia referring to "minor incidents" sparked a political storm on Tuesday amid an uproar over the alleged gang rape of a student inside her college in Kolkata. Following Bhunia's comment, the opposition accused the ruling TMC of being insensitive and trivialising the crime. Bhunia, who was addressing a doctors' conference in Kolkata recently, said in his speech, "In Bengal, even a minor incident leads to a huge outcry." Th...Read More
Berhampur (Odisha), Jul 1 (PTI) A female student of class 7 was raped allegedly by a distant relative in Odisha's Ganjam district, police said on Tuesday. The police arrested a 22-year-old man from a village under the jurisdiction of the Golanthara police station on Tuesday on the charge of raping the minor. The incident happened on June 28, while the complaint was registered with the police on June 30, a police officer said. The incident came close on the heels of the gang rape of a college ...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 1 (PTI) The BJP on Tuesday elected its presidents in six more states, taking to 22 the number of states where it has picked its organisational heads since the start of the party's internal polls last year and fulfilling an essential formality to begin the election of its national president. BJP presidents in Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand were elected unopposed, with the party showing a preference for those with a long stint in the organi...Read More
Shimla: The newly re-elected state BJP president Rajiv Bindal on Tuesday assumed office marking the start of his third term with a call to party workers to work dedicatedly to oust the "corrupt and untruthful government". "I will work 24x7 with the moto of nation first as the next two years are very challenging," he said urging workers to pledge unity and rise above personal interests. His mission, Bindal said, is to ensure that "lotus" blooms in Himachal Pradesh again. He said that due to the...Read More
Chandigarh, Jul 1 (PTI) Punjab Minister Aman Arora on Tuesday said the Narcotics Control Bureau has sought the records of a disproportionate assets case against Akali leader Bikram Singh Majithia, and alleged the BJP-led Centre was looking to "weaken" it. Piling up on the allegation, another AAP minister in the state, Tarunpreet Singh Sond, claimed the Delhi Police, which is under the Ministry of Home Affairs, has denied the Punjab Vigilance Bureau permission to conduct searches at properties a...Read More
Kolkata, Jul 1 (PTI) The South Calcutta Law College on Tuesday terminated the services of the prime accused and expelled two other students arrested in connection with the alleged gang rape of a 24-year-old first-year student on the campus, officials said. The decision was taken at a meeting of the college's governing body chaired by TMC MLA Ashok Kumar Deb, amid a growing public outrage over the June 25 incident. The prime accused, Monojit Mishra, who was working as a temporary staffer since ...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 1 (PTI) Amid high surveillance, tight security and multi-agency coordination, the fuel ban on overage vehicles kicked in Delhi on Tuesday, with 24 such vehicles being impounded, officials said. Petrol pumps across Delhi have been asked not to provide fuel to end-of-life (EoL) vehicles starting Tuesday under the directions of the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM), with the Transport Department along with the Delhi Police and traffic personnel putting in place a detailed...Read More
Guwahati, Jul 1 (PTI) Assam BJP president Dilip Saikia on Tuesday maintained that Congress members were behaving like "overground Maoists" in the state, as he lashed out at the opposition party a day after its supporters purportedly hurled a water bottle at the chief minister's convoy. The ruling party also staged protests across the state, including Guwahati, demanding exemplary punishment against the culprits. A water bottle was purportedly hurled at the convoy of Chief Minister Himanta Bisw...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 1 (PTI) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday termed the enactment of three new criminal laws as the biggest reform in independent India and said they will make the judicial process process not only affordable and accessible but also simpler, time-bound and transparent. Shah stressed that the Narendra Modi government framed the new laws -- Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA) -- to ensure that al...Read More
Indore, Jul 1 (PTI) The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Tuesday stayed the retest of candidates affected by power cuts at exam centres in Indore and Ujjain during the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET-UG) held on May 4 for admission to undergraduate medical courses. Justice Vivek Rusia and Justice Binod Kumar Dwivedi of the Indore bench of the high court gave this verdict after hearing the arguments of all the concerned parties on the appeal filed by the National Examination Agency (NTA...Read More
Mumbai, Jul 1 (PTI) The high-value Rs 2000 notes worth Rs 6,099 crore are still in circulation even after two years of the Reserve Bank withdrawing the currency, according to official data released on Tuesday. Rs 2000 banknotes continue to be legal tender. On May 19, 2023, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced the withdrawal of Rs 2000 denomination banknotes from circulation. In a statement, the RBI said the total value of Rs 2000 banknotes in circulation, which was Rs 3.56 lakh crore at ...Read More
MUMBAI: Shadowfax has filed draft IPO papers with markets regulator Sebi through the confidential filing route. The company is seeking to raise up to Rs 2,000-2,500 crore comprising a mix of fresh issue of shares and offer for sale (OFS) by existing shareholders, sources said. The Flipkart and TPG backed logistics startup which was last valued at $712 million or about Rs 6,000 crore is eyeing an IPO valuation of about Rs 8,500 crore.Startups are rushing to Dalal Street after a recovery in stock ...Read More
Bengaluru, Jul 1 (PTI) The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday heard arguments in a case filed by X Corp India, the Indian arm of Elon Musk-owned social media platform 'X' (formerly Twitter), challenging the authority of government officials to issue content takedown notices under the Information Technology Act. 'X' Corp informed the court that it had recently received a notice from the Ministry of Railways seeking the removal of a video showing a woman driving a car on railway tracks in Hyderabad....Read More
Hyderabad, Jul 1 (PTI) Railways Sports Promotion Board (RSPB) emerged as the top-performing unit by grabbing nine medals, including three gold as the Elite Women's Boxing Tournament concluded here Tuesday. The final day was marked by standout performances from World and Commonwealth Games gold medallist Nitu Ghanghas (Haryana), Olympic medallist Lovlina Borgohain (TOPS), and world champion Saweety Boora (SAI NCOE), who secured titles in their respective weight categories. The SAI NCOE combined...Read More
Shimla, Jul 1 (PTI) Cloudbursts and flash floods triggered by heavy overnight rains battered Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district, leaving five people dead, five injured and 16 missing, officials said on Tuesday. The state witnessed 11 cloudburst incidents, four flash floods and a major landslide on Tuesday, most of them in Mandi district, disrupting normal life. Mandi received extensively high rainfall of 253.8 mm since Monday evening. Ten houses, 12 cattle sheds, one bridge and several roads h...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 1 (PTI) State-owned SJVN on Tuesday announced signing an agreement with Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) to supply power from its 900-MW Arun-III Hydro Electric Project in Nepal. The company also signed power purchase agreements (PPAs) with UPPCL for supply of power from its upcoming 210 MW Luhri Stage-I and 382 MW Sunni Dam Hydro Electric Project (HEP) and 382 MW Sunni Dam HEP in Himachal Pradesh, Shimla-based SJVN said in a statement. Together, these projects wi...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 1 (PTI) A mix of cloudy skies in the morning and sunshine later in the day made for pleasant weather in the capital on Tuesday, with the maximum temperature settling at 35.1 degrees Celsius -- 6.8 notches below normal. The city is likely to remain under the 'green zone' in the coming days, indicating no extreme weather alerts, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). The humidity levels fluctuated between 89 and 85 per cent during the day, according to the IMD, wh...Read More
Chandigarh, Jul 1 (PTI) The Punjab Vigilance Bureau took Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia to his office in Amritsar's Majitha on Tuesday in connection with a disproportionate assets case registered against the former minister. A heavy police force was deployed near Majithia's office with barricades raised to prevent his party's supporters from reaching there. The vigilance bureau team remained for over an hour at the office. His wife Ganieve Kaur, an Akali MLA from the Majitha ...Read More