In a significant statement Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday told the Rajya Sabha that by the time its Diwali and towards the end of the year, India would have pre-Covid aviation figures of 3,00,000 passengers a day.
Ahead of the Monsoon Session of the Karnataka Legislature from September 21, state Urban Development Minister Byrati Basavaraj tested Covid positive and was admitted to a private hospital in the city, an official said on Tuesday.
A drug peddler arrested in Goa has been brought to Mumbai on a transit remand by the Narcotics Control Bureau, an official said here on Tuesday. Chris Costa will be examined further in the drug case related to the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
A day after the NCB detained Showik Chakraborty's school friend Suryadeep Malhotra, the drug law enforcement agency on Tuesday arrested him in connection with its probe into the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, officials said. A senior NCB official told IANS that Malhotra has been arrested by the agency after his involvement was found in the case.
The State Bank of India (SBI) has refunded Rs six lakh which was fraudulently withdrawn from the account of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust last week.
The estranged wife of actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Aliya, has recorded her statement at a police station in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar and reasserted her charges, including that a family member was "molested" by the actor's brother. She had filed the case in Mumbai, which was later transferred to Muzaffarnagar's Budhana area where the alleged incident took place.
Gaming hardware vendor Razer has accidentally exposed personal information of over one lakh gamers that was available for nearly a month for hackers to exploit.
Former world number one Andy Murray has received a wild card entry into the French Open which is slated to begin from September 27.
Brazil's southern state of Mato Grosso do Sul has declared a state of environmental emergency after raging wildfires destroyed 1.4 million hectares of vegetation since the beginning of the year.
Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh has been hospitalised after he tested positive for Covid-19.
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, while commenting on the recent gang-rape of a women by two men in front of her little kids, said on Monday that rapists should be handed down the most severe punishment to curb rising sexual violence in the country.
Cloud major Oracle on Monday confirmed a deal with ByteDance, the Chinese owner of short video-sharing platform TikTok which has been under pressure to divest its US operations for more than a month now.
Turkey does not see any slow down in transmission rate of the novel coronavirus, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate/lay the foundation stone of seven more projects, to the tune of Rs 541 crore, in Bihar on Tuesday.
The provisions under transitional arrangement shall not be applicable under this notification. In the national capital, onion prices were ruling at around Rs 40 per kilogram.
Taking a serious view of her photograph, in which she is sitting amidst heaps of vegetables, going viral on social media sites, the Infosys Foundation chairperson, Sudha Murthy told IANS in a free-wheeling chat that she was not happy with the way she was portrayed on social media sites as she was sitting there for a pious work and not for a publicity event.
The CSBA study has analysed the EU-China Friendship Group, Italy-China Friendship Association and the Czech-China Chamber of Collaboration, to draw conclusions about China's current approach to shape European opinion in Beijing's favour through targeted elite co-option.
China has reserved several seats for policymakers of the mega Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) project at its Science Academy in Beijing. The programme started on September 4 and will end on September 20, sources said.
Delhi Police's Special Cell had arrested Khalid on Sunday night under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, after questioning him for over ten hours. He was produced before Additional Session Judge Amitabh Rawat of Karkardooma court via video-conferencing on Monday afternoon.
Southern superstar Venkatesh Daggubati went down memory lane on Monday and recalled the shoot of the 1990 film, Bobbili Raja. Venkatesh shared a few posters of the film on Instagram. He mentioned that the film, which was directed by B. Gopal has completed 30 years since its release.
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