More than 56 million Indians lived in states other than the ones they were born in, newly released census data for 2011 shows. While UP, Bihar, Rajasthan and MP had the highest ‘out-migration’, Maharashtra, Delhi and Gujarat saw the largest ‘in-migration’. Among larger states, Bihar had the lowest number of people migrating into the state…
The draft update by Grant Thronton is based on several e-mails exchanged between IL&FS group executives as well as some key functionaries of the agencies to accuse ratings companies of changing their action after “private meetings and discussions”. The mails point to instances of agencies ranging from ICRA, CRISIL, CARE, Fitch, India Ratings, Moody’s and…
NEW DELHI: A 120-day operation by Delhi Police’s special cell has blown the lid off an Af-Pak narcotics cartel controlled by a Taliban leader and his Pakistani counterpart, leading to the biggest ever contraband haul in Delhi till date with the police stumbling upon a consignment of 150kg of heroin worth over Rs 600 crore.…
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Friday alleged a complete breakdown of law and order in Uttar Pradesh after its general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was taken into preventive detention while she was on her way to Sonbhadra to meet families of 10 tribals who were massacred by a group of 200 men over a land…
NEW DELHI: Aviation regulator DGCA has grounded an AirAsia (India) pilot for three months for mistakenly sending the hijack code to Air Traffic Services (ATS) instead of an emergency message during a Delhi-Srinagar flight on June 9 which suffered an engine snag. The pilot-in-command (PIC) of that flight, who had asked for the emergency code…
AMARAVATI (AP): The World Bank on Friday said it ‘dropped’ the $300-million loan proposal for the Amaravati development project as the central government withdrew the financing request, triggering a blame game between the ruling YSRC and opposition TDP in Andhra Pradesh. “The Government of India has withdrawn its request to the World Bank for financing…
NEW DELHI: Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy moved the Supreme Court on Friday saying that governor Vajubhai Vala cannot dictate to the assembly the manner in which the debate on the confidence motion has to be taken up. The chief minister questioned the deadlines set by the governor one after another to complete the…
NEW DELHI: Pakistan should respect the International Court of Justice ruling on Kulbhushan Jadhav and release and repatriate the Indian national immediately, foreign minister S Jaishankar told Parliament on Thursday. He was making a statement on the ICJ ruling slamming Pakistan for violating the Vienna Convention in the Jadhav case. Jaishankar said the ICJ judgment…
NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Thursday that residents of 1,797 unauthorised colonies of Delhi will soon get ownership rights to their properties. The bonanza comes a few months before assembly elections in Delhi and two days after the Union housing and urban affairs ministry circulated a Cabinet proposal for formulating a…
MUMBAI: The national selection panel’s meeting to pick squads for the West Indies tour has been pushed to Sunday amid intense focus on skipper Virat Kohli’s availability and veteran Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s future. The meeting was scheduled for Friday but was postponed following Committee of Administrators’ (CoA) directive that the chairman of the panel, instead…