Day: January 3, 2020

SpiceJet to operate 21 new flights from next week

SpiceJet announces eight new flights

8:37 pm January 3, 2020

Mumbai: Budget carrier SpiceJet on Friday announced the launch of eight new flights, including one on Ahmedabad-Jeddah routes, starting next month. The new flights on the domestic routes will strengthen connectivity across western and southern India, SpiceJet said in a release. A mix of both 189-seater Boeing 737s as well as 90-seater regional jets Bombardier […]

PM's meeting with CMs: Demand transfer of cash to poor families, says Chidambaram

ED questions P Chidambaram in UPA-era aviation scam case

8:35 pm January 3, 2020

New Delhi: Former Union finance minister P Chidambaram was on Friday questioned by the ED in connection with its money laundering probe into alleged aviation-related financial irregularities said to have occurred during the UPA dispensation, officials said. Chidambaram’s statement was recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they said. The case pertains to […]

Amit Shah holds colourful roadshow in Bengal's Kharagpur

Govt won’t budge on CAA: Amit Shah

8:29 pm January 3, 2020

Jodhpur (Rajasthan): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said the government will not budge an inch on its decision to implement the Citizenship Amendment Act despite the opposition criticism of the law. Launching an awareness programme in support of the amended citizenship law, Shah accused the Congress and other opposition parties of running a […]

Snowfall in higher reaches of Kashmir, rain in plains

Cold wave persists in Himachal Pradesh

8:26 pm January 3, 2020

Shimla: Cold wave persisted in Himachal Pradesh on Friday with a number of places of tourist attraction in the state shivering at sub-zero temperatures, the meteorological department said. The weatherman has predicted snow, rainfall in some places in the middle, low and high hills of the state and thundershowers in the plains from January 6 […]

ASI assaulted in Rajasthan's Chittorgarh

4 of a gang held for cheating online shoppers

8:22 pm January 3, 2020

Thiruvananthapuram: Days after the Kerala Assembly passed a resolution on repealing the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday wrote to his counterparts in 11 states on the need to save secularism and democracy. In a letter to the chief ministers, including Mamata Banerjee and Arvind Kejriwal, Vijayan said, “Apprehensions have arisen […]