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India needs more transparency. For that, CIC and other information commissions must cooperate Ask not why Indian Railways charges you what it does. That’s the message Central Information Commission – a body set up to ensure “smoother and greater access to information” – has sent across to the public through a recent order. The applicant…
New Delhi: In a bid to provide some reprieve to airlines badly affected by the US-Iran war, the aviation ministry has directed 34 major airports to reduce their landing and parking charges by 25% for three months, for domestic flights. Accordingly, the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) on Tuesday issued an order directing the operators…
What started as a routine Senate hearing quickly turned into a political headache at the White House. President Donald Trump was reportedly furious behind closed doors after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem suggested under oath that he had signed off on a hefty $220-million ad campaign, one that prominently featured her face. According to reports,…
Iran struck a fully loaded crude oil tanker anchored off Dubai’s port on Monday, setting it on fire and damaging its hull, Kuwait’s state news agency reported, citing Kuwait Petroleum Corp. The company also warned of a possible oil spill. The incident appears to be the latest in a series of attacks on commercial shipping…
Astronomers have signalled the discovery of a planetary body roaming the Milky Way that is not gravitationally bound to the Sun or any other star. The entity is termed a free-floating planet, a class that embraces planetary mass bodies that are travelling in interstellar space independently. These bodies do not shine in a way that…
We too can get ‘Fired’ up for the new Chinese year The Year of the Fire Horse began on Tuesday. Whatever our geopolitical/economic wishlist, only the blinkered believe that China happily trots along with our agenda; its normal policy is breathing fire at us. However, let’s set aside our neighbour’s Arunachal–aki and other Lines of…
Indian equity benchmarks continued their upward move for a third straight session on Wednesday, with the BSE Sensex adding nearly 3,000 points over the past three trading days, prompting debate on Dalal Street over whether the recent recovery marks a sustainable bottom or just a short-term bounce, according to an ET report.The NSE Nifty ended…
Brett Lee with Asha Bhosle (Pic credit: Lee’s Instagram post) NEW DELHI: Former Australia fast bowler Brett Lee paid a heartfelt tribute to legendary singer Asha Bhosle, recalling their unique musical collaboration following her passing at the age of 92.The unlikely partnership between Lee and Bhosle had captured widespread attention in 2007 with the release…
Have you experienced that you visited somewhere and then you came bac home exhausted? yes its all about the energies because there are certain places which are considered inauspicious and full of negative energy so we have mentioned the places where you should not visit and avoid going to those places according to your birth…
KOLKATA: A high-level election review meeting on Wednesday turned volatile when a senior election observer openly challenged CEC Gyanesh Kumar, later leading to the observer’s removal.During the virtual meeting convened by the full bench of the EC, Cooch Behar South general observer Anurag Yadav objected to remarks made by the CEC. The situation escalated when…
