The BJP on Tuesday named three candidates, including former minister Manpreet Badal, for the bypolls to the four Assembly constituencies in Punjab, scheduled on November 13. Former finance minister Badal has been fielded from his stronghold Gidderbaha. Ravi Karan Singh Kahlon will contest from Dera Baba Nanak and Kewal Singh Dhillon from Barnala.
An IndiGo Airlines flight with 183 passengers on board on Tuesday evening had to make an emergency landing at the Jaipur International Airport after receiving a bomb threat. An official said that the flight was coming from Kolkata to Jaipur when the pilot got information that there was a bomb in the flight.
India and Pakistan on Tuesday decided, through diplomatic channels, to extend the validity of the agreement on Sri Kartarpur Sahib Corridor for a further period of five years. The agreement, signed on October 24, 2019 to facilitate the visit of pilgrims from India to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur, Narowal, Pakistan through the Kartarpur Sahib Corridor, was valid for a period of five years.
India’s annual GDP growth is projected to be between 7 and 7.2 per cent in FY 2024-2025, a Deloitte report said on Tuesday, which is in line with the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) prediction of the country witnessing real GDP growth at 7.2 per cent for FY25. Dr. Rumki Majumdar from Deloitte India said that India’s economy is emerging with resilience as the dust settles after a high-stakes elections period.
In a major tragedy amid the rain fury in Bengaluru, one person from Bihar has died and about 21 labourers from different states are feared trapped inside the under-construction building which collapsed in Babusapalya locality of Bengaluru on Tuesday. The official sources stated that the death toll is likely to go up in the tragedy.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that a full range of relations between India and Iran was reviewed along with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian during the bilateral talks between the two leaders on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in the Russian city of Kazan.
