02 May 2026
New Delhi: The travel time of long-haul trucks and other cargo vehicles has reduced by at least one-fifth or approximate 20 per cent as border check posts have been removed across the country following the implementation of GST.
However, top executives of major logistics firms said while tax officials have largely disappeared from roads, transport department officials are extorting money on some pretext or the other.
New Delhi:Eighteen opposition parties will meet once a month to discuss various crucial issues and maintain better coordination among themselves to challenge the government collectively.
TMC leader Derek O'Brien has made an announcement to that effect after a meeting of the opposition parties to decide on their vice-presidential candidate.
New Delhi: Gopalkrishna Gandhi, former West Bengal governor and the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, was on Tuesday unanimously chosen by all 18 non-NDA parties as their candidate for vice president.
Earlier, Gandhi, 72, was said to be in the race for the Opposition's presidential candidate, which later went to the Congress's Dalit face, Meira Kumar.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said, the interim direction of the Madras High Court staying the Centre's notification banning sale and purchase of cattle from animal markets for slaughter will remain in force and will cover the entire country.
A bench, headed by Chief Justice JS Khehar, took note of the statement of the Central government that it is reconsidering the notification by taking into account various objections and suggestions of stakeholders and will come up with an amended notification.
The bench, then, disposed off the plea filed by the All India JamiatulQuresh Action Committee challenging the constitutional validity of the Centre's notification.
The Centre had, in May, issued the notification banning sale and purchase of cattle from animal markets for slaughter. The Environment Ministry had notified the stringent 'Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Regulation of Livestock Markets) Rules, 2017' under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act.
New Delhi: In a well-planned terror attack, seven Amarnath pilgrims, including five women, were killed and 15 injured when militants attacked a bus carrying at least 56 passengers at Botengo village near Anantnag, on the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway, in South Kashmir on Monday evening.
