INDIA leaders meet as countdown to results begin; Kharge says grouping to get 295+ seats
New Delhi: Leaders of several INDIA bloc parties met on Saturday to take stock of the opposition’s preparations leading up to the June 4 counting of votes polled in the Lok Sabha elections, and claimed they will get more than 295 seats, enough for them to form the next government. Addressing the media after a […]
BJP will win over 370 LS seats, NDA over 400: Nadda
New Delhi: People have voted for a capable, powerful, developed and self-reliant India and to put aside appeasement, nepotism and corruption, BJP chief JP Nadda said on Saturday, exuding confidence that his party will win more than 370 Lok Sabha seats and the NDA more than 400. His remarks came on a day when polling […]
INDIA bloc parties decide to participate in exit poll debates: Cong spokesperson Pawan Khera
New Delhi: INDIA bloc parties on Saturday announced that they will participate in the exit poll debates on television this evening after the grouping’s top leaders met and deliberated on the issue at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence. The development came a day after the Congress said it has decided not to participate in any […]
The ANC party that freed South Africa from apartheid loses its 30-year majority
Johannesburg: The African National Congress party lost its parliamentary majority in a historic election result Saturday that puts South Africa on a new political path for the first time since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule 30 years ago. With nearly 99% of votes counted, the once-dominant ANC had received just […]
ATF price cut 6.5%, commercial LPG by Rs 69
New Delhi: Jet fuel or ATF price on Saturday was reduced by a steep 6.5 per cent and that of commercial LPG used by hotels and restaurants by Rs 69 per 19-kg cylinder on declining international oil prices. Aviation turbine fuel (ATF) price was cut by Rs 6,673.87 per kilolitre, or 6.5 per cent, to […]
Windfall tax on crude petroleum cut to Rs 5,200/tonne
New Delhi: The government has reduced windfall tax on domestically-produced crude oil to Rs 5,200 per tonne from Rs 5,700 with effect from Saturday. The tax is levied in the form of Special Additional Excise Duty (SAED). SAED on the export of diesel, petrol and jet fuel or ATF, has been retained at ‘nil’. The […]
Rusted mortar shell found in Poonch
MENDHAR/JAMMU: A rusted mortar shell was found in a farm in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Saturday, officials said. The shell was found by a villager in a farm land in Uchhad area of Mendhar and informed police, they said. A police team and a bomb disposal squad rushed to the spot on getting […]
Mehbooba likely to skip INDIA bloc meeting in New Delhi
SRINAGAR: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti said Saturday she is likely to skip the opposition INDIA bloc meeting to be held in New Delhi later in the day due to personal reasons. “I may not go as my mom has undergone an eye surgery,” she told PTI. Top leaders of the opposition grouping […]
Operations at Srinagar Airport halted for an hour after bomb threat
Srinagar: Flight operations at the Srinagar International Airport had to be halted for an hour on Friday after a bomb threat as the authorities took preventive measures, officials said. The Air Traffic Control (ATC) at the Srinagar Airport received a bomb threat on an Air Vistara flight from New Delhi, prompting a response from the […]
Akhnoor bus accident: 6 Transport dept officials suspended
Jammu: Six transport department officials in Jammu and Kashmir were suspended for alleged dereliction of duty on Friday, a day after 22 people were killed and 64 injured in a bus accident in Jammu district. The tragic incident occurred on Thursday, when the bus carrying 86 devotees from Haryana’s Kurukshetra and heading towards the Shiv […]
