India to import 10 lakh tonnes of tur dal to offset possible production shortfall

New Delhi (IANS) In order to control domestic prices of pulses due to possible shortfall in production owing to weather and the 'wilt' disease, the government will import around 10 lakh tonnes of tur dal in the current marketing year (December-November)…

32 Swiss tourists to set sail on 'MV Ganga Vilas'

Varanasi (IANS) Thirty-two Swiss tourists will be part of the inaugural sail of 'MV Ganga Vilas' that will be flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi through video conferencing on January 13.

The Swiss tourists will be a part of…

Cabinet approves setting up of 3 new multi-state cooperative societies

New Delhi (IANS) The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved setting up of a national level multi-state cooperative seed society under Multi-State Cooperative Societies (MSCS) Act, 2002.

It will act as an apex organisation for production, procurement,…

Air India 'pee-gate': Delhi court reserves order on accused's bail plea

New Delhi (IANS) A Delhi court on Wednesday reserved its ruling on a bail plea filed by Shankar Mishra, who is accused of urinating on an elderly female co-passenger, while in a drunken state, on a New York-New Delhi flight in November last year.

Kerala HC flags pesticide residual in Sabarimala 'aravana', orders stop of distribution

Thiruvananthapuram (IANS) At the peak of the pilgrimage season to the famed Sabarimala temple, the Kerala High Court on Wednesday ordered the Travancore Devasom Board (TDB), which manages the shrine, to stop distribution of its 'aravana' (sweet)…

'There are democratically elected institutions', SC agrees to hear plea on Joshimath sinking

New Delhi (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to examine a plea on January 16, seeking its intervention to declare the crisis in Uttarakhand's Joshimath as a national disaster.

A bench headed by Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud declined…

Delhi L-G grants prosecution sanction against Shehla Rashid for tweets against Indian Army

New Delhi (IANS) Delhi Lieutenant Governor V.K. Saxena has granted prosecution sanction against Shehla Rashid Shora, former vice president of the JNU Students' Union and member of AISA, for her two tweets against the Indian Army.

The tweets…

Kolkata Police arrest 3rd IS man from MP's Khandwa

Kolkata (IANS) Based on the inputs from Mohammad Saddam and Syed Ahmed, the two Islamic State (IS) linkmen arrested from West Bengal's Howrah district on January 7, the Special Task Force (STF) of Kolkata Police arrested an important link of the…

No suspicious object found in Moscow-Goa flight

Jamnagar (IANS) After almost nine hours of detailed inspection, security agencies on Tuesday confirmed that no suspicious object has been found in Goa-bound Russia's Azur Airlines flight and termed the bomb threat email a "hoax call".

The…

Coimbatore car blast case: NIA likely to make more arrests

Chennai (IANS) National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is probing the October 23 Coimbatore car blast case in which a 29-year-old youth was charred to death, is likely to arrest more people involved in the conspiracy.

The police had arrested…