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New Delhi, May 15: Air India is investigating a senior captain for alleged sexual harassment after a woman pilot complained against him to the management, a spokesperson of the state-run carrier said. The spokesperson said the woman pilot in her complaint to the management said the senior caption asked her several "inappropriate questions". "The instructor reportedly suggested the two to have

New Delhi, May 14: Violent clashes broke out between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers at BJP chief Amit Shah’s mega road show in Kolkata on Tuesday. The unprecedented chaos erupted after sticks were hurled at Shah’s convoy. “A scuffle between the Left and BJP student activists in front of the Calcutta University building on College Street led to the violence,”

Mumbai, May 14: Jet Airways on Tuesday said its CEO Vinay Dube has resigned from the company due to personal reasons. This is the second high profile exit in as many days at the grounded Jet Airways after Deputy CEO Amit Agarwal put in his papers on Monday. In a filing to stock exchanges, the airline said Dube has "resigned from the services of the company with immediate effect due to personal

New Delhi, May 14: A retired Delhi Police personnel cast his vote on Sunday hours after cremating his son that morning. Inder Singh, 62, retired as an assistant sub inspector (ASI) of Delhi Police in 2016. His 35-year-old son Sunil Kumar died on Saturday night. Sunil was being treated for a critical spinal injury at a hospital in Delhi's Vasant Kunj after he fell off a moving tractor on April 10

Bengaluru, May 14: Grounded carrier Jet Airways' deputy chief executive and chief financial officer (CFO) Amit Agarwal has resigned, the airline said on Tuesday. Agarwal's resignation is effective from May 13, it said. "We wish to inform that Amit Agarwal, the deputy chief executive officer and CFO of the company, has resigned from service due to personal reasons, with effect from May 13," Jet

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in an interview to Hindi news channel News Nation, has claimed to have used a digital camera as well as email during 1987-88. While responding to a question about his fondness for gadgets, Modi said that he had been fascinated by technology long before he became the chief minister of Gujarat. He said that he had started using the ‘Stylus pen’ way back in the 1990s

New Delhi, May 13: The Supreme Court Monday dismissed a plea seeking a direction to the Election Commission to advance poll timings to 5:30 am from 7 am for the seventh phase of Lok Sabha polls in view of searing heat and the month of Ramzan. A vacation bench comprising Justices Indira Banerjee and Sanjiv Khanna rejected the plea, saying the notified timings of voting are from 7 am to 6 pm and

North Lakhimpur, May 13: Breaking religious barriers and going an extra mile to strengthen the bond between two communities, a Hindu family from Lakhimpur district donated a piece of land for expansion of a Muslim burial ground. The family of late Karunakanta Bhuyan, which stays at Gorehaga village in North Lakhimpur, donated 0.84 acres to the Nahar Pukhuri Kabarstan (graveyard), which is located

Chandigarh, May 13: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday said he called up controversial Sam Pitroda after his insensitive comments on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and asked him to publicly apologise for it. Addressing a rally in Punjab a short while ago, Rahul said he completely disapproves of the comments made by Sam Pitroda. “I told him (Sam) that he was wrong. He should be ashamed of what he

New Delhi, May 13: The Congress on Monday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his remarks that cloud cover could help IAF planes evade Pakistani radars during the Balakot strikes, saying that while "boasting" he "disrespected war strategy" and committed an "unforgivable crime". In an interview to a private news channel aired on Saturday, Modi said he relied on his "raw wisdom" to dispel