Jammu/Srinagar, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti is unlikely to stake claim to power in Jammu and Kashmir in absence of concrete assurances from the BJP on the agenda of alliance between the two parties and her misgivings over their relationship, party sources said on Friday. “It is not the question of whether she gets sworn in […]
New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the foreign direct investment (FDI) to India has increased by 39 percent in the last 18 months even while falling globally. “The FDI to India increased by 39 percent in the last 18 months, when global FDI has fallen,” Modi said in his address at The […]
Brisbane Airport (BNE) has been named one of the world’s most punctual airports in the 2015 OAG flightview Punctuality League Report: On-time performance (OTP) results for airlines and airports. In the medium airport category (10-20 million departing scheduled seats per annum), BNE achieved a respectable 88.31 per cent average for flights departing on time (classified […]
New Delhi, Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday announced the names of the first 20 cities which will be developed into smart cities in 2016. These are: Bhubaneswar (Odisha), Pune (Maharashtra), Jaipur (Rajasthan), Surat (Gujarat), Kochi (Kerala), Ahmedabad (Gujarat), Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh), Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), Sholapur (Maharashtra), Davangere (Karnataka), Indore (Madhya Pradesh), New […]
New Delhi, Indira Gandhi knew her life was at risk when she decided to go for militarily storm the Golden Temple, President Pranab Mukherjee reveals in the second part of his memoirs released on Thursday. “The Turbulent Years, 1980-1996” (Rupa) says that “criminals, smugglers and anti-social elements” had joined the Khalistan movement and recalls that […]
New Delhi, Striking employees of Delhi’s three civic bodies on Thursday continued their agitation over non-payment of salaries, with sanitation workers dumping garbage outside Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s office, even as Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal sought fresh election to the three Municipal Corporations of Delhi. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader, who is undergoing […]
New Delhi, The union government said on Thursday it plans to award a total of 10,000 km of road projects by the end of the current fiscal, while 19 stalled highway projects involving blocked investment of around Rs.40,000 crore are to be resolved by this month end. “All procedures have been simplified. There is an […]
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala’s ruling Congress-led UDF suffered a blow on Thursday as a court ordered an FIR to be filed in the solar panel scam against Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, who claimed innocence and rejected opposition calls to resign. And even as Saritha Nair, one of the main accused in the scandal and who hurled bribery […]
Immigration officers will visit Griffith in south-west NSW on 28 January to provide immigration information to people who have overstayed their visas. A spokesperson for the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) said the Community Status Resolution Service (CSRS) outreach programme enables people in regional communities, who do not have a valid Australian visa […]
Hospitality students will have the opportunity to serve part of their training for the Diploma of Hospitality at one of the world‘s best restaurants, when Noma begins its 10-week residency in Sydney on Monday. Minister for Skills John Barilaro said the new partnership between Noma Australia, Restaurant and Catering Australia (R&CA), and the NSW Government, […]