In a major relief to passengers, airlines will be mandated to steeply reduce fees for carrying five-kg extra baggage on flights. The Civil Aviation Ministry will ask the airlines to charge Rs.100 on each additional kg baggage against an average of Rs. 300 a kg charged at present, a senior official of the Ministry said. However, the reduced fares will […]
» Read moreIn a major shuffle of senior bureaucrats, the Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday transferred K. Gnanadesikan and posted P. Rama Mohana Rao as Chief Secretary. Mr. Rao would also hold full additional charge of Vigilance Comissioner and Commissioner for Administrative Reforms. Mr. Gnanadesikan would be appointed as the chairman and managing director of Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO), according […]
» Read moreIndia will soon open its sixth consulate in Seattle to cater to the needs of large number of Indian-Americans living in the northwestern part of the U.S. “We hope to open a new Indian consulate in Seattle,” Indian Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar said after the conclusion of the talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Barack Obama at […]
» Read moreFour Indian women, including SBI Managing director Arundhati Bhattacharya and ICICI Bank Managing director Chanda Kochhar, are in the new list of Forbes’ world’s 100 most powerful women who are building billion-dollar brands and calling the shots in the financial markets. The Forbes ‘100 Most Powerful Women’ in the world list 2016, topped by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, includes PepsiCo […]
» Read moreMeryl Streep made use of a spray tan, a fake belly and an oversized red tie to get in character for her latest role, Donald Trump. The New York Times reported that the three-time Oscar winner took the stage on Monday in New York as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee during a gala benefit for the Public Theater. A Times […]
» Read moreThe Hindu’s former Delhi Chief of Bureau and veteran journalist K.K. Katyal passed away in a Delhi hospital on Wednesday after a brief illness. Mr. Katyal was 88. Mr. Katyal, who was the face of The Hindu’s Delhi bureau since the launch of the paper’s New Delhi edition in 1986, had also worked in The Statesman andHindustan Times. Hailing from […]
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