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Bengaluru, Sept 2: CCB Women and Narcotic Drug squad have arrested a 47 year-old man and seized from him Rs 15 lakhs worth banned drugs. Police on Sunday said that the arrested Suresh was smuggling banned drugs from abroad through his son Mohit and selling it cladistinly in the State. The banned drugs seized from included 180 gram of Hydro Ganja, 169 LSD Bottling papers, 168 Exertion tablets, 210

New Delhi, Sept 2: There seems to be no end in sight for P&W engine trouble as a Pune-bound Airbus A320 neo plane of GoAir from Bengaluru had to return back on Saturday after it suffered a technical snag. While a GoAir spokesperson said the flight "suffered a technical glitch", sources claimed the engine failed midair and the flight returned back with full emergency landing in Bengaluru. There

Coimbatore, Sept 2: A newly married British couple chartered an entire train to travel from Mettupalayam to Udhagamandalam to spend their honeymoon in the Nilgiri hills. The couple paid Rs. 3 lakh to charter the special train, introduced by Southern Railway, for a one-way trip, becoming the first people to do so. Graham William Lynn (30) and Silviya Plasic (27) got married recently. To make their

Mumbai, Sept 2: Malaysian budget carrier AirAsiaBerhad, which runs AirAsia India (AAI) along with Tata group, today announced discounted fares starting as low as Rs 1,399 for international flights and Rs 999 for domestic travel under a limited period offer. The sale offer is available on all flights operated by the AirAsia group, including those of AirAsia India, it said. The sale of tickets for

Washington, Sept 2: The US military is seeking to reallocate $300 million in aid to Pakistan due to Islamabad's lack of "decisive actions" in support of regional American strategy, the Pentagon said Saturday. The US has been pushing Pakistan to crack down on militant safe havens in the country and announced a freeze on aid at the beginning of the year that an official said could be worth almost $2

New Delhi, Sept 2: The Law Commission in its consultation paper released on Friday addressed the difference between freedom of religion and one's right to equality. The commission stated while freedom of religion and the right to practice and propagate religion must be strongly protected in a secular democracy, we must not overlook the number of social evils that take refuge as religious customs

New Delhi, Sept 1: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 1, 2018, blamed ‘phone-a-loan’ scam of the previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for the bad loans in the banking sector and asserted that every penny given at the behest of ‘naamdars’ (dynasts) would be recovered. Launching a payments bank of the postal department, Mr. Modi said that during the previous regime, the

Kolkata, Sep 1: The Imam of a prominent Kolkata mosque has asked people of the community to ensure that documents proving their citizenship and other legal records were in order and up to date. The appeal by the Imam of Nakhoda mosque Maulana Shafique Qasmi was made at the congregation after the Friday prayers. It comes in the wake of reports that names of 40 lakh people were left out of the

New Delhi, Sept 1: Jain monk Tarun Maharaj died in the early hours Saturday at east Delhi's Radhapuri Jain Temple. He was 51. "He was not keeping well and was earlier admitted to a private hospital in Vaishali. A few days ago, he had decided to come to the Radhapuri Temple in Krishna Nagar, where he died at around 3.18 am Saturday morning," said a senior official of the Bhartiya Jain Milan, a pan

New Delhi, Sep 1: An intoxicated man allegedly urinated on the seat of a woman passenger onboard an Air India international flight, prompting the Civil Aviation Ministry to seek a report from the national carrier. The incident took place on August 30 when Air India flight AI 102 was on its way to New Delhi from New York. Indrani Ghosh, daughter of the woman passenger, tweeted about the incident