New Delhi, April 1 Price of Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF), or jet fuel, was more than doubled to a record Rs 2.07 lakh per kilolitre on Wednesday, mirroring the surge in global oil prices last month, but for domestic airlines, the increase would only be 8.5 per cent. Domestic airlines will pay half of what […]
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Shimla, March 31 Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Sukhu on Tuesday reduced the hike in entry tax for the small passenger vehicles in the wake of protest by people from neighbouring states, bringing it down to Rs 100 from Rs 130 earlier. “Keeping the general public’s convenience in mind, the government has reduced the toll […]
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New Delhi, March 31 Senior bureaucrat Vir Vikram Yadav has been appointed as the chief of Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) as part of a senior-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre on Tuesday. Yadav, a 1996 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Odisha cadre, succeeds incumbent Faiz Ahmed Kidwai, who has […]
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New Delhi, March 31 The Home Ministry has told a parliamentary committee that security agencies use only publicly available information from the internet and social media for intelligence gathering, and do not collect personal or private data. In its submission to the Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology, the ministry said that agencies rely […]
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Guwahati, March 31 Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday unveiled the BJP’s manifesto for the upcoming Assam assembly elections, pledging the protection of land, heritage, and dignity of indigenous communities along with an ambitious Rs 5 lakh crore infrastructure investment. The party’s ‘Sankalp Patra’ includes 31 promises, covering initiatives such as the recovery of […]
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Yog Raj Sharma Shimla, March 31 Himachal Pradesh Chief Secretary Sanjay Gupta on Tuesday denied corruption allegations linked to the Chester Hill project in Solan, saying he is being targeted as part of a conspiracy, while accusing former senior bureaucrats of trying to implicate him. In a sharp rebuttal, Gupta said allegations that he irregularly […]
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New Delhi, March 31 The Income Tax department has notified all income tax return forms for the assessment year (AY) 2026-27. While ITR forms 1-4, filed by small and medium taxpayers, were notified on March 30, ITR forms 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7, as well as ITR-U (for filing updated returns), were notified on […]
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Nangal March 31 Amid an aggressive push to transform Nangal into a hub of modern infrastructure, skill development and tourism, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann rolled out a ₹75 crore development package, anchored by North India’s first Glass Bridge, a ₹23 crore Centre of Excellence named after Kargil martyr Captain Amol Kalia, and major […]
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New Delhi, March 31 The Defence Ministry has signed a ₹1,950 crore contract with Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) to procure two indigenously developed Mountain Radars for the Indian Air Force, in a move aimed at strengthening domestic defence manufacturing under the Aatmanirbhar Bharat and Make in India programmes. The Ministry of Defence said the capital […]
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Jammu, March 31 At least five glacial lakes in the Kashmir Himalaya have “very high susceptibility” to glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs), even though they are not immediately unstable, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on Tuesday. Speaking in the assembly, Abdullah said a preliminary geospatial analysis was conducted to map downstream exposure […]
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