The government has decided to extend health insurance cover to sections such as rickshaw pullers, rag pickers, mine workers, sanitation workers, and auto rickshaw and taxi drivers.
Threats were often communicated to Pandit homes through notes tied to stones chucked through a window, or a notice pasted on a wall. Those sometimes came from neighbours eyeing that Pandit family's property. Those threats often worked in the atmosphere of terror during that awful season of vacuous exercise of State authority, writes David Devadas, longtime Kashmir watcher and author of two books on the Valley.
A series of flip-flop on policies and a non-existent charging infrastructure are the biggest challenge in achieving the target of selling 6-7 million hybrid and electric vehicles by 2020.
DID Li'l Masters 2 winner Faizal Khan talks about his acting debut in Bharat Ka Veer Putra-Maharana Pratap.
It comes with an optional airbag on host of other features like integrated audio system.
Prithviraj's new film is like a telly soap. It could have been a good film if it had been well-edited.
In containment areas, movements of people is totally banned and essential services are delivered at the doorsteps.
India displayed its military might and vibrant cultural heritage on Rajpath on Wednesday with the grandest flypast with 75 aircraft to mark the 'Azadi ka Amrut Mahotsav' celebrations being the highlight of the 73rd Republic Day Parade, which was drastically scaled down in view of the Covid pandemic.
A limited number of activities will remain prohibited across the country, irrespective of the zone, including travel by air, rail, metro and inter-state movement by road, running of schools, colleges, and other educational and training/coaching institutions.
MSI chairman R C Bhargava said auto sector would like to see GST benefits linked to greener/cleaner cars. The government gave tax cut on EVs but hybrid should be given duty cut. There should be tax cut on CNG vehicles.
The brand contributes about 40 percent to VW group earnings.
'Companies with a strong business case and healthy balance-sheet should sail through and emerge more robust in the future.'
The chief minister also said that all 72 lakh ration card holders in the city will be provided free 10 kg ration this month.
Rediff.com takes a look at some cases from the recent past where the courts awarded the capital punishment for horrific crimes that fall under the rarest of rare category.
The state government says Ola was using its existing cab aggregator licence to promote bike taxi services.
The Volkswagen Passat comes feature-packed, offers good driveability and practicality in an understated form.
One more incident of self immolation and another attempted suicide rocked the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh on Monday triggering yet another call for the bandh in the region on Tuesday.
Modi asked Delhiites not to repeat the "mistake" of voting for AAP.
The strike affected attendance in government offices and banks, the officials said.
The FPI holding in India's top 100 companies, which are part of the Nifty 100 index, declined to 24.23 per cent on average at the end of March this year, from a high of 27.5 per cent at the end of March 2021. This is the lowest FPI holdings in India's top listed companies in at least three years. A general sell-off by FPIs has weighed on stock prices and the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex is down 8.5 per cent, from its 52-week high made in October 2021. Most analysts expect FPI flows to remain weak in FY23 as well, given rising bond yields in the US and an expected earnings slowdown in India due to high inflation and commodity prices.
Being a high-value asset, a car needs a comprehensive cover to protect you financially from mishaps. With premiums to be de-tariffed soon, auto insurance is set to change.
Carmakers fear an increase of Rs 35,000-40,000 per vehicle for safety equipments.
Ten central trade unions except Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh are observing one-day general strike on Thursday to protest against various government policies.
Soorarai Pottru HELD A Ganesh Nadar'S attention till the last frame.
The Mercedes-Maybach S 600 Guard is powered by a 6.0-litre twin-turbo V12 petrol engine.
In a drink driving mishap, a teenage girl was killed on Saturday and her five friends and an auto rickshaw driver were injured when the speeding car the friends were riding in turned turtle after hitting a tree and a divider in suburban Juhu.
'The fundamentals look strong, but we will have to see if they translate into actual demand.' 'Because the April-May marriage season didn't see much sales due to the lockdown.'
It's got the looks, it's got the features, but the Magnite's success will depend on its pricing, says Rajesh Karkera.
Japanese auto major Nissan is recalling around 12,000 units of various models.
German Nico Hulkenberg will drive for Force India next season, the British-based Formula One team said on Tuesday.
The Dalits of Thabola village in Rajasthan's Bhilwara district are facing social and economical boycott for a month now after two grooms from the community decided to defy the diktats of the upper caste villagers. Shahnawaz Akhtar reports.
CCTV footage shows the 35-year-old lying unconscious on roadside, while none of the passersby stops to help.
The Aspire offers the best of performance and efficiency, something which is unheard of in this segment. It is neither outdated nor unreliable and no other car in its segment can come close to the Aspire's VFM proposition.
The new Toyota Yaris will surely instil confidence among its users when it comes to performance and safety, says P Tharyan.
India wasn't applying widespread crash testing like foreign countries do, so manufacturers didn't see the need for an investment focus on safety. Customers rarely walked into showrooms asking for the safest car. They wanted the cheapest or the most fuel-efficient or the best-looking car.
PV registrations in this year's festive period stood at 287,717 units as against 333,456 units in the corresponding period last year, down 14 per cent. Two-wheeler registrations also fell by 13 per cent to 15,83,276 units as against 18,11,703 units in the year-ago period.
The two are teaming up for this latest Malayalam movie.
People hoard gold, whenever there is crisis of confidence on the paper currency.
The government on Friday said it intended extending coverage of its flagship health insurance scheme for poor families to auto-rickshaw drivers, cycle rickshaw pullers, street vendors and rag-pickers.
