India

HC dismisses petition seeking to open 22 doors in Taj Mahal


Lucknow: The Allahabad High Court's Lucknow bench dismissed the petition seeking the opening of 22 rooms in the Taj Mahal premises. The two-judge bench ripped into the petitioner who sought opening of the locked rooms, stating that the truth about the iconic monument needs to come out and that he has filed multiple PILs for...

Campbell Wilson appointed CEO & MD of Air India


New Delhi: The Tata Group has appointed Campbell Wilson as CEO and Managing Director of Air India. Wilson is currently the CEO of Singapore Airlines' low-cost subsidiary, Scoot. Earlier this year, Tata Group had named Turkish Airlines Chairman Ilker Ayci as Air India’s CEO & MD, but he subsequently denied the position. Wilson, 50, has 26 years...

‘Don’t patronize us’: Tirumurti to Dutch envoy


New Delhi: India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador T S Tirumurti has told the Ambassador of the Netherlands to the UK that “Kindly don’t patronize us,” New Delhi “knows what to do” when the Dutch envoy said India should not have abstained in the UN General Assembly on Ukraine. Since January this year, India has...

Taj Mahal most searched for UNESCO Heritage Site in the world


Already registered in the seven wonders of the world, the Taj Mahal is now the most searched UNESCO world heritage site.  Travel website Zitango created a list of over 100 UNESCO World Heritage sites and analyzed search data to find the average monthly search volume for each one, in every country of the world. This...

President Kovind confers 13 Shaurya Chakra awards


New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind conferred 13 Shaurya Chakra awards, including six posthumously, to armed forces personnel while Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande received the Param Vishisht Seva medal. The Shaurya Chakra is India’s third-highest peacetime gallantry award after the Ashok Chakra and Kirti Chakra. The awards were conferred at a ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhavan. The...

SC puts sedition law on hold for review


New Delhi: The Supreme Court on May 11 stayed the use of the sedition law and directed the Centre and states to not register any fresh FIRs invoking sedition charges until the law is reviewed. In the pending sedition cases, the Supreme Court said those languishing in jail under sedition charges can approach the courts...

China intends to keep border issue alive: Army Chief


New Delhi: China does not have the intent to find an early resolution to the overall boundary question, even though the two countries are involved in discussions to solve the crisis in eastern Ladakh, Indian Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande said. In his first formal media interaction, Pande said that when it comes to China, “The...

Pulitzer Prize for slain photographer Danish Siddiqui, 4 Indians


Pulitzer Prize 2022 winners in Journalism, Books, Drama and Music were announced on Monday. The winner's list included The Washington Post, including Indians Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, Amit Dave, and the late Danish Siddiqui for their images of Covid toll in India. Siddiqui of Reuters has been given this award posthumously. He was killed...

Top Infibeam exec R Srikanth murdered in Chennai by driver after US return


R Srikanth, the head of corporate finance at finance company Infibeam, and his wife were allegedly murdered by their driver in Mylapore in Chennai on May 7, according to reports.  Srikanth had also previously served as the chief financial officer of Jio Infocomm and Polaris Financial Technology Limited.  Srikanth and his wife Anuradha had just returned...