The aviation regulator in the country is concerned about several videos on popular Chinese video app TikTok that show flight crew singing and dancing while on duty, and has asked airlines to take action in the interest of passenger safety, a senior official told Reuters.
Britain's Thomas Cook needs to find an extra 200 million pounds ($251 million) to satisfy its lenders or one of the world's oldest holiday company risks collapse, potentially stranding thousands of holidaymakers across Europe.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said the Narendra Modi government was committed in making India a big manufacturing hub and the slashing of corporate tax rates would make the country's markets "much more exciting" for potential investors.
Madhya Pradesh suffered a loss of Rs 11,906 crore during the recent floods, state government officials have told a visiting central team and sought immediate financial aid for relief and rehabilitation work.
A Delhi court on Friday allowed the CBI to interrogate Christian Michel, the alleged middleman in the AgustaWestland chopper scam, in Tihar Central Jail where he is lodged.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has claimed the NDA will register a landslide win in Assembly polls due next year and win more than the 206 seats it claimed in 2010. The Chief Minister, whose position as leader of the NDA in the state has come under pressure, also said those "trying to do internal sabotage" would be dealt with
Edited by Debanish Achom | Friday September 20, 2019, New Delhi
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi today weighed in on the centre's move to cut corporate tax on domestic companies with a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's scheduled 'Howdy, Modi!' event in Texas on Sunday.
Senior Congress leader Karan Singh on Friday urged Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik to declare his father Hari Singh's birth anniversary next week as a public holiday, asserting that it was due to the state's former ruler that it became a part of India.
Edited by Richa Taneja | Friday September 20, 2019, New Delhi
World Peace Day 2019: The United Nations is also organising a Climate Action Summit on September 23 to bolster up this year's theme and take concrete climate action.
A Siberian shaman who was detained while on a trek across Russia to banish President Vladimir Putin from the Kremlin has been confined to a psychiatric ward, authorities said Friday.
A 70-year old Catholic priest allegedly molested three minor girls when they visited him to seek blessings at his church office in Chendamangalam in Ernakulam district last month, the police said on Friday.
Edited by Richa Taneja | Friday September 20, 2019, New Delhi
Alzheimer's Day 2019: This World Alzheimer's Day, the focus is on stigma and how to break stereotypes and myths that surround the diagnosis of dementia.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today predicted a landslide victory for the NDA in the assembly polls due next year, and asserted that those trying to create a rift between his party Janata Dal United or JD(U) and alliance partner Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP will be in trouble.
The government today reduced the income tax rate for companies by almost 10 percentage points to 25.17 per cent and offered a lower rate of 17.01 per cent for new manufacturing firms to boost economic growth from a six-year low.
