NEW DELHI: The Gujarat ATS (Anti-Terrorist Squad) detained on Saturday Mumbai-based activist Teesta Setalvad in connection with an FIR filed in Ahmedabad alleging “criminal conspiracy, forgery and placing false evidence in court to frame innocent people” in the 2002 Gujarat riots case. The action came a day after the Supreme …
Read More »
BENGALURU: The Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Center (IN-SPACe), India’s independent nodal agency created to hand-hold and regulate private industry in the space sector has handed out its first two authorisations. Bengaluru’s Digantara and Hyderabad-based dhruva Space became the first two private firms to receive authorization letters late on …
Read More »
NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has stopped flying at two flying training schools — one each in Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat — because of serious safety concerns. “One school is in Shirpur and the other is Chimes Aviation Academy in MP,” said a senior official. “Flying …
Read More »
NEW DELHI: After the Supreme Court rejected the appeal questioning the SIT’s clearance of then-Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and many other individuals in the 2002 riots, home minister Amit Shah made the comments in an interview with ANI. Zakia Jafri has submitted the plea. He lauded the Supreme Court …
Read More »
NEW DELHI: From next April, Indian car makers can get their vehicles tested on safety parameters; get the “star rating” here and won’t need to ship them abroad anymore. The road transport ministry on Friday published a draft standard for “Star Rating” of new cars on safety parameters under a …
Read More »
NEW DELHI: India on Friday strongly raised with Australia, Canadathe UK, the US, Germany and a number of other countries the issue of long delays in grant of visas to the Indian students wanting to resume their on-campus classes. Thousands of Indian students are struggling to return to these countries …
Read More »
NEW DELHI: MLAs being taken to resorts, sulking politicians and photo-ops exhibiting a show of strength — the political crisis in Maharashtra, triggered by a rebellion within Shiv Sena, has become a national spectacle in the last few days. As minute-by-minute details of the crisis play out in the media, …
Read More »
NEW DELHI: Covid jabs have prevented an estimated 19.8 million deaths worldwide in the first year of the vaccine programme, reducing the potential global death toll during the pandemic by 63% during that period, a mathematical modeling study published today in The Lancet Infectious Diseases estimates . Based on estimates …
Read More »
NEW DELHI: The rebellion by an overwhelming majority of Shiv Sena MLAs have led to the question whether the group led by Eknath Shinde is now the ‘real’ Sena as opposed to the original one led by CM Uddhav Thackeray, If Shinde has the support of more than 37 MLAs …
Read More »
Rebellion Maharashtra MLAs lead by Eknath Shinde on Wednesday. (TOI photo) NASHIK/AURANGABAD/KOLHAPUR: The rebel Shiv Sena MLAs and ministers who have joined the Eknath Shinde Camp have told the Thane strongman that they will neither quit the party nor form a separate outfit. Shinde assured them that they would not …
Read More »