India

New Delhi, Oct 19: Undeterred by staff protests, the Civil Aviation Ministry would seek Cabinet approval for privatising half a dozen more airports by the first week of December. The six airports up for privatisation are Varanasi, Amritsar, Bhubaneswar, Trichy, Indore and Raipur. "The Airports Authority of India (AAI) board has approved the plan. We will seek in-principle approval of the Cabinet

New Delhi, Oct 19: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday hit out at Union Minister Piyush Goyal for his remarks on Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee, saying the government's job is to improve the "collapsing" economy and not to run a "comedy circus". Goyal on Friday said Banerjee supported 'NYAY', a minimum income scheme proposed by the Congress, which was rejected by the Indian voters

Mumbai, Oct 19: Reliance Jio on Friday reported Rs 990 crore net profit for Q2 ending September, marking a year-on-year growth of 45.4 per cent on a standalone basis even as its average revenue per user (ARPU) fell while both data and voice volume grew significantly. It's standalone revenue from operations was Rs 12,354 crore while standalone Ebitda stood at Rs 5,166 crore. The company's net

Mumbai, Oct 19: An 83-year-old depositor of the troubled PMC Bank died on Friday, with his family claiming that they could not raise money for his heart surgery after restrictions were imposed on fund withdrawals. This is a fourth incident of the death of a depositor of the Punjab & Maharashtra Cooperative Bank after the RBI appointed administrator on the city-headquartered lender. Two of the

New Delhi, Oct 19: Indrani Mukerjea has claimed to have paid a bribe of US $5 million to former Finance Minister and Congress leader P. Chidambaram and his son Karti Chidambaram through offshore payments in Singapore, Mauritius, Bermuda, the UK and Switzerland, the Central Bureau of Investigation stated in the chargesheet filed in a special court on Friday in the INX Media case. The CBI also

New Delhi, Oct 19: Spending nights in forests, tripping over corpses and surviving without adequate food in refugee camps, after they spent lakhs of rupees to chase their US dream, was the common ordeal for over 300 Indians who landed here on Friday after being deported by the Mexican immigration authorities. Sent back to India on a chartered plane that took 11 hours, the deportees were first

New Delhi, Oct 18: The Supreme Court on Friday reserved judgement on a plea of former Union Minister and Congress leader P Chidambaram against the order of Delhi High Court that dismissed his bail petition in the INX media case. A bench headed by Justice R Banumathi reserved the judgement on the bail hearing plea after hearing arguments from the counsels of Chidambaram and CBI. Solicitor General

Lucknow, Oct 18: Kamlesh Tiwari, founder of the Hindu Samaj Party, was shot dead in broad daylight in Lucknow on Friday. Soon after the attack Tiwari, former state president of the All India Hindu Mahasabha, was rushed to the Trauma centre in a critical condition but succumbed. According to reports, the attackers, wearing saffron clothes, walked into Tiwari's office in Khurshid Bagh area on the

New Delhi, Oct 18: The Muslim parties have denied reaching a settlement by giving up their claim on disputed land in Ayodhya in the Supreme Court. Rejecting the report that Muslim parties have filed a statement for settlement in the Ram Mandir-Babri Masjid case, advocate-on-record Ejaz Maqbool for the Muslim parties, issued a statement denying the settlement claims. On the final day of hearing of

Pune, Oct 18: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea filed on behalf of scam-hit PMC Bank account holders seeking lifting of restrictions imposed by the Reserve Bank of India on cash withdrawals. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi said, "We are not inclined to entertain this petition under article 32 (writ jurisdiction). Petitioner can approach the high court