The price of non-subsidised LPG gas was hiked by 220 rupees per cylinder from yesterday. A 14.2 kg cooking gas cylinder that consumers buy beyond their entitled nine cylinders at subsidised rates, will now cost 1,241 rupees in Delhi. In Mumbai, it will cost 1,264 rupees and 50 paise, in Kolkata-1,270 rupees and in Chennai […]
The Centre has sanctioned 1,080 buses to thirteen cities of seven states under its Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, JNNURM scheme. These states are Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Sikkim and Tripura. An official release said that these cities have also been sanctioned projects relating to ancillary infrastructure like depots and workshops for […]
The Assam government is considering the introduction of local time for the State, which would be one hour ahead of the Indian Standard Time. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi told this to reporters in Guwahati yesterday. The Chief Minister said that local time would help the State save energy as the working hours would be advanced […]
The Tour de India 2013, the world’s biggest cycling event, has been listed in the international race calendar of the UCI and the second edition of the multi-city event will witness the participation of more than 150 foreign and national cyclists. The CFI secretary general Onkar Singh said that the races are scheduled to take […]
Arson and violence continues in Bangladesh as the 18-party BNP-led Opposition combine enforces yet another spell of 72- hour country-wide roar-rail-waterways blockade beginning on Saturday. Opposition is demanding that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina steps down, and elections postponed till agreement on election-time government is reached. Amidst the escalating violence, police arrested BNP Joint Secretary […]
Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif is visiting Afghanistan for the first time since he took office in May as part of the efforts to revive the Afghan peace process. Mr. Sharif’s talks with the Afghan President, Mr. Hamid Karzai will focus on how to reopen negotiations with the Afghan Taliban over which Pakistan has […]
The Goa Sessions Court is expected to pronounce its verdict on Tarun Tejpal’s anticipatory bail petition shortly. The court this afternoon adjourned the hearing, which had resumed in Panaji in the morning, and said it will decide on the plea after 4:30 PM today. Public Prosecutor Saresh Lotlikar argued that prima facie a case is […]
The Government asked the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (Ranjan Daimary) group to submit their Charter of Demands within 3 months. Talking to AIR, Assam Home Secretary G D Tripathi said that peace process will start on the basis of charter of demands. The Centre and the Assam government have signed Suspension of Operation treaty […]
A Mozambique Airlines plane with 28 passengers and 6 crew on board has gone missing on a flight to Angola. Airline officials Flight TM470 left Mozambique’s capital, Maputo, at 09:26 GMT and was due to arrive in the Angolan capital, Luanda. The last contact made with the plane was when it was over northern Namibia. […]
President Pranab Mukherjee has said that there is need for quality education and an atmosphere for that in the country. Addressing the 12th convocation ceremony of Rajiv Gandhi University at Itanagar in Arunachal Pradesh today, the President said that there is no dearth of quality teachers and students, yet no Indian university is in the […]