For the second time within two months, the Supreme Court has intervened to stop felling of trees for the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority' (MMRD) Metro rail projects. On Monday, the apex court stayed, for two weeks, axing of trees on the Metro Line 4 (Wadala to Kasarvadali via Thane). Last month, it had ordered no tree ...
Just a day after India observed the 11th anniversary of the 26/11 terror attacks which killed 166 people and injured over 300 others in Mumbai, Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote a moving letter to the attack's youngest survivor -- Moshe Tzvi Holtzberg from Israel, who was a toddler at the time of the tragedy. ...
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said the work done by his government in the field of electricity has increased people's faith in the power supply. In a tweet, he said Delhi's 24x7 power supply has hurt the sales of inverters and generators. "I am glad the work we have done to end power cuts in the last few years has...
A day after Nationalist Congress Party MP Supriya Sule met Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray demanding that the government abolish the Maha Portal, a senior Shiv Sena leader said a probe would reveal that it was akin to the Vyapam scam of adjoining Madhya Pradesh. ...
All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU) President Sudesh Mahto has turned out to be the first choice of both ruling and opposition parties in the Jharkhand. Both BJP and AJSU are fighting the 2019 Assembly polls separately but none of the party officials announced the divorce. BJP and AJSU had fought the 2014 ...
Former Minister and BJP leader Pankaja Munde has called for a meeting of her supporters on December 12, which is also the birth anniversary of her late father and Former Union Minister Gopinath Munde, to be held in Maharashtra's Beed. Munde lost the Parli seat of her family bastion to NCP's Dhananjay Panditrao ...
The government on Monday said there is no official estimate of the undisclosed wealth held by Indians abroad. This was stated by Union Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur in the Lok Sabha on Monday, in response to questions by MPs Kunwar Danish Ali and P.P. ...
Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has called Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and veteran BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani "infiltrators", a statement which triggered a row in the Lok Sabha on Monday, causing vehement reaction from treasury benches seeking the MP's "unconditional" apology....
The Kerala High Court on Monday held discussions with the Bar Council members to resolve the spiralling issue of the alleged humiliation of a lady magistrate in a court at the state capital by a group of laywers after she cancelled the bail of a driver of the state road transport corporation. ...
After three consecutive days of increase in the price of petrol, there was no change in its price on Monday. The diesel prices continue to remain stable for the past three days. The petrol price on Sunday was increased by five paise in Delhi, seven paise in ...
