A Finely Carved Anglo-Indian Rosewood Sofa If you’ve lived in or around the Indian subcontinent, you would have seen this tree: tall, often with a sharp fork in the trunk and a series of twists and turns, culminating in dense, disperse foliage that spreads like the wings of a peacock. This is the mighty rosewood … Read more
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Saturday said that West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose should hold a meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to resolve the deadlock over Bills pending with the Raj Bhavan, as directed by the Supreme Court in a similar case. On Friday, the apex court had asked Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. … Read more
A view of ongoing work of the longest sea bridge in India, the Sewri-Nhava Sheva Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link (MTHL) Road project, at Sewri, in Mumbai. | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI The 21.8 km six-lane Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL), India’s longest sea bridge, will be opened to the public on December 25, the BJP’s Maharashtra … Read more
Jairam Ramesh. File | Photo Credit: ANI The Congress on October 26 cited a media report that one of the Adani Group’s long-time auditors is being scrutinised by India’s accounting regulator to allege that “something is truly rotten” in the conglomerate. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh’s attack on the Adani Group came after a media … Read more
The government on Monday restricted the export of Agar oil and Agarwood chips and powder. Their exports were free earlier. The Directorate General of Foreign Trade notified an annual export quota of 25,000 kg for Agarwood chips and powder, and 1,500 kg for Agar oil. The DGFT said that applications for an export license obtained … Read more
The Plurals Party chief Pushpam Priya Choudhary on Saturday wrote to President Ram Nath Kovind, seeking Bihar election 2020 be conducted under President’s rule and cited “threats, abuses” to the party candidates as reasons for the request. Pushpam Priya Choudhary (Picture Credits: twitter.com/pushpampc13) Pushpam Priya Choudhary, chief of The Plurals Party, has written to President … Read more