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Twitterati are having a field day after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman blamed the auto industry slump on millenials not wanting to buy cars and preferring services such as Ola and Uber. The FM also noted that confusion over BS6…

Bhubaneswar: Odisha-born bureaucrat Pramod Kumar Mishra on Wednesday took charge as Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Mishra was serving as the additional principal secretary in the PMO. On June 12, he was elevated to…

The Gujarat government has reduced the fines for traffic violations under the new Motor Vehicles Act. The fines for not wearing helmets and seat belts were reduced to Rs 500. The penalty for driving without a licence was reduced to Rs…

Bhubaneswar: Did you know that it is illegal to wear chappals or sandals while riding geared motorcycles? If you are not wearing covered shoes while riding a motorcycle, you can be fined Rs 1,000. This law existed earlier too. But under…

Chandigarh: A former MLA from Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-Insaaf party, Baldev Kumar, on Tuesday sought political asylum from India. The 43-year-old leader reached India with his wife and two children on August…

Karachi: Namira Salim, Pakistan’s first female astronaut, has congratulated the Indian Space and Research Organisation (ISRO) on the Chandrayaan-2 mission and its historic attempt to make a soft landing on the Moon. “The Chandrayaan-2…

Noida: In probably the first such case after the new Motor Vehicles Act came into force, a 35-year-old man died of a heart attack after an altercation with a traffic policeman over a suspected violation, his father has alleged. Noida…

ISRO has refused to confirm a report published by PTI that Vikram lander is lying 'intact' on the lunar surface. Officials reiterated that they will try to re-establish connection with the lander 14 days, as told by director K Sivan on…

Eminent jurist and former Union minister Ram Jethmalani passed away in New Delhi on Sunday. He was 95. Here are 10 interesting facts about one of the most well-known lawyers in the country. Ram Jethmalani was born in 1923 in Shikarpur…

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chief K Sivan on Sunday announced that they had found out the exact the location of Vikram Lander. The space agency had lost contact with the Lander of Chandrayaan-2 moments before its scheduled…