A police constable and a notorious criminal died during an encounter in Amroha on Sunday, a senior UP government official said.

The incident took place in Indrapur village which comes under the jurisdiction of Bachhraaun police station.

The US-Bangla airline Bombardier UBG-211 crash that occurred in March last year took place as the pilot who was in charge of the flight had smoked inside the cockpit despite restrictions, authorities confirmed on Sunday.

The company has a policy of ‘No Smoking’ in all the flights, domestic as well as international. The PIC (pilot in command) was a smoker as per information received by the commission.

A Delhi court on Monday granted bail to RJD chief Lalu Prasad, his wife Rabri Devi and son Tejashwi Yadav in the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) scam related money laundering case.

Special Judge Arun Bhardwaj granted relief to the accused persons on a personal bond of ₹1 lakh and one surety of like amount each.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday slammed the Congress-led UDF for implicating former Isro scientist Nambi Narayanan in an espionage case, saying they did so as some party leaders wanted to settle political scores.

A few years ago, a hard working and patriotic Isro scientist Nambi Narayanan was implicated in a false case just because a few UDF leaders wanted to settle political scores, Modi, who was in Tamil Nadu and Kerala to announce a series of projects on Sunday, said in Thrissur.

Shares of Larsen & Toubro (L&T) were up 4 per cent to Rs 1,337 apiece on BSE in the early morning trade in an otherwise weak market after the company reported 37 per cent year-on-year (YoY) rise in consolidated net profit at Rs 2,042 crore in December quarter (Q3FY19). The healthy performance during the quarter was on back of improved operating performance and a higher other income.

Twenty months since the launch of the goods and services tax (GST), tax officials under state governments are still struggling to handle the large assessees that have come into their fold, especially the service providers and small manufacturers. This has resulted in the twin issues of high revenue leakage and denial of input tax refunds to eligible taxpayers, mostly service exporters, several industry sources and analysts tracking the GST system told FE, recounting anecdotes.

The GMR Group on Thursday announced the introduction of ‘GMR Aero Square’ in the Hospitality District of Delhi International Airport Limited. In a unique concept for Indian airport, GMR Aero Square offers easy access to the commercial hubs of Aerocity from public places. It has been developed amid lawns and landscape leading to Terminal 3 of the IGIA.

Domestic equity market on Thursday witnessed moderate recovery after choppy trade as both Sensex and Nifty reversed their two-day losing spell on the back of gains in heavyweights RIL, ITC and Yes Bank.

During the session, the BSE benchmark Sensex swung over 260 points both ways on alternate bouts of buying and selling by participants.

Even though only 40% customers have registered their channel choices under the new tariff guidelines that kick in from February 1, the Telecom Regulatory Authority Chairman R.S. Sharma on Thursday expressed confidence that service providers will be able get options from all their subscribers within a week.

Under a starry night and a waning gibbous moon, ISRO’s PSLV C-44 broke the silence over a brimming Pulicat lake as it lifted off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, SHAR, to successfully place into orbit a military satellite, Microsat-R.

The mission with the modified PSLV with just two strap-on motors, dubbed the PSLV-DL (dual strap-ons), marked another first for ISRO as it provided an alternative to its normal six strap-on motors.

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