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Vijinder Gupta (left), Arvind Kejriwal (agencies) Asserting that there was no ‘phansi ghar’ on Delhi Assembly premises, its speaker Vijender Gupta said on Thursday that the matter will be referred to the privileges committee for inquiry that will summon former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, along with others. Gupta had earlier told the House that the…

Election Commission of India Election Commission notifies schedule for Vice President election Election Commission of India Election Commission notifies schedule for Vice President election Election Commission of India NEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India (ECI) notified the schedule for the election of the Vice President of India. The poll, if contested, will be held…

NEW DELHI: India’s biggest online travel agency MakeMyTrip (MMT) has launched a multilingual GenAI trip planning assistant to enable conversational bookings. Initially in Hindi and English, MMT says the platform will “assist users at every stage of travel planning, from discovery to fulfilment, and beyond. Users would find conversational assistance through their entire journey, from…

NEW DELHI: Three CRPF personnel lost their lives and 15 others were injured after a CRPF vehicle met with an accident near Kandva in the Basantgarh area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district on Thursday.According to Additional SP Udhampur, Sandeep Bhat, police teams rushed to the spot soon after the incident and launched a rescue…

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday said naming of welfare schemes after political netas was all pervasive in states and at Centre and ruled that no exception could be taken to Tamil Nadu govt’s ‘Ungaludan Stalin’ scheme, which translates into ‘Your’s Stalin’.Setting aside Madras HC’s July 31 interim order restraining use of names of political…

NEW DELHI: To give ‘baptism by fire’ opportunity to young lawyers and make them learn the art of persuading judges to grant urgent hearing in important matters, Chief Justice of India B R Gavai on Wednesday said from Monday, designated senior advocates will be barred from mentioning cases for listing or urgent hearing.Finding that every…

NEW DELHI: A controversy erupted on Wednesday after Congress MP KC Venugopal accused govt of removing a Lok Sabha question on the auction of 13 offshore mining blocks around Arabian and Andaman seas at the last minute, alleging it wanted to evade answering whether the socio-economic impact assessment (SIA) was done prior to the auction,…

NEW DELHI: The Maharaja is rolling out a campaign to restore passenger confidence after the fatal crash of Flight AI 171 in Ahmedabad – the airline’s first wide-body accident since 1978 and the first major disaster since the Air India-Indian Airlines merger and privatisation.In a message to customers on Wednesday, Air India MD and CEO…