Burning smell, Air India Express lands in Muscat

Chennai (IANS) An Air India Express flight to Dubai from Calicut was diverted to Muscat owing to a burning smell.

The incident happened on Saturday night.

It is said the burning smell was from one of the vents in the aircraft's galley.

Bengal coal scam: Large amount of cash was transferred to accounts of arrested ECL officials

Kolkata (IANS) As the sleuths of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) go deeper in the probe into the coal smuggling case in West Bengal, the probe officials are coming across massive unauthorised financial transactions involving the seven past…

Naga panel lauds NNPG, Rio-led regime inches ahead towards solution

New Delhi/Kohima (IANS) The Nagaland government headed by Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio on Saturday inched ahead making a concrete attempt to materialise or finalise a solution for final peace pact.

The state legislators also reiterated their…

Unfortunately, space for Opposition in the country diminishing: CJI

Jaipur (IANS) Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana on Saturday said that a strong, vibrant and active opposition helps to improve the governance and corrects the functioning of the government, but "unfortunately the space for Opposition in the country…

BJP picks Bengal Guv Jagdeep Dhankhar for Vice President

New Delhi (IANS) West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar will be the NDA candidate for Vice Presidential polls.

BJP chief J.P. Nadda announced the name of Dhankhar as the NDA candidate after the Parliamentary Board meeting at party headquarters…

SBSP ditches Akhilesh, to vote for Murmu in Prez poll

Lucknow (IANS) The Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP) president Om Prakash Rajbhar has announced that he and his party MLAs will vote for the NDA presidential candidate Draupadi Murmu.

The SBSP has six MLAs in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly.

India reports 20,038 new Covid cases, 47 deaths

New Delhi (IANS) India on Friday reported a marginal decline at 20,038 Covid infections in the last 24 hours against 20,139 cases reported on Thursday, the Union Health Ministry said.

During the same period, the country reported 47 Covid deaths,…

Ripudaman Singh Malik, acquitted in Air India bombing case, killed in target shooting in Canada

Vancouver (IANS) Ripudaman Singh Malik, who was the main accused in the 1985 Air India Kanishka bombing and later acquitted, was shot dead outside his business office in Surrey near here.

The incident happened on Thursday morning. The 75-year-old,…

Five dead, several injured in Delhi wall collapse

New Delhi (IANS) At least 5 people were killed and several others sustained injuries after a boundary wall of an under-construction godown collapsed in the national capital on Friday afternoon, an official said.

"Over a dozen people were rescued…

14 Chinese nationals staying illegally in Noida detained

New Delhi (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh Police on Thursday detained 14 Chinese Nationals, including a female, who had been illegally living in Noida.

The detentions were made after the police got a tip-off.

"Our special group got a tip-off…