Jet flight returns to Mumbai with 30 bleeding passengers

Mumbai (IANS): At least 30 passengers on a Jet Airways Mumbai-Jaipur flight suffered ear and nose bleeding due to low cabin pressure during the ascent here on Thursday, an official said.

The flight 9W-697 with 166 passengers and five crew,…

Cyclone alert issued for Odisha, Andhra Pradesh

Bhubaneswar (IANS) The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday issued a cyclone alert for Odisha and Andhra Pradesh.

The IMD in a statement said a depression over west-central and adjoining east-central Bay of Bengal…

SC reserves order on SIT probe into activists' arrest

New Delhi (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its order on a plea seeking court-monitored SIT probe into the charge that the five right activists have links with banned outfit CPI (Maoist) and were allegedly involved in a conspiracy…

Centre, states working to take GDP to $5 tn by 2022: Modi

New Delhi (IANS)  The size of the Indian economy will double to $5 trillion by 2022 with manufacturing and agriculture contributing $1 trillion each, and the various states are competing with each other to help achieve this goal, Prime Minister…

Latest EVMs to be used in Rajasthan polls, says CEC Rawat

Jaipur (IANS) In a first, a total for 51,796 poll centres in Rajasthan will use EVM-M3 electronic voting machines with VVPATs in 200 Assembly constituencies, which will help conduct Assembly election in a smooth and transparent manner, a…

Rafale deal: Government not to satisfy ego of 'ill-informed' Congress leaders

New Delhi (IANS): The government on Wednesday said a probe by a Joint Parliamentary Committee or Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) cannot be set up to go into the 36 Rafale fighter jet deal to satisfy the ego of an "ill-informed"…

Modi government approves ordinance on triple talaq

New Delhi (IANS): Ahead of Assembly elections in five states, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved an ordinance making triple talaq a criminal offence, with the government stating that there was a "compelling necessity" and "overpowering…

Congress to take part in J&K polls

Srinagar (IANS): The Congress on Wednesday said it will participate in the upcoming municipal and panchayat elections in Jammu and Kashmir.

Addressing the media here, G.A. Mir, President of Jammu and Kashmir Congress unit, said his party had…

Child death below 5 declined faster in India: UN

New Delhi (IANS): Death of children below the age of five continues to steadily reduce in India, declining from nearly 22 per cent in 2012 to 18 per cent in 2017, which is now for the first time below the one million mark, the UN said in a new report.

Class 10 student gang raped in Dehradun boarding school

Dehradun (IANS): The principal and two other officials of a boarding school here in Uttarakhand were arrested on Tuesday after a Class 10 girl student accused them of suppressing the matter of her gang rape by senior students in August, police said.