New Delhi: SpiceJet on Tuesday said Carlyle Aviation will write off aircraft lease arrears worth USD 40.17 million as part of a settlement agreement that will also result in the entity hiking stake in the struggling airline. Facing multiple headwinds, the budget carrier is working on ways to raise funds to the tune of Rs 3,200 crore, including infusion of money by the promoter. On Friday, SpiceJet had mentioned about the settlement pact with Carlyle Aviation, which had earlier also restructured certain debt with the airline. In a release on Tuesday, the airline said there is a significant debt relief…
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Duleep Trophy 2024: All-rounder Rinku Singh received the nod from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for the second round matches of the ongoing Duleep Trophy 2024. Rinku comes in as a replacement player in the India B squad after the The likes of Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rishabh Pant had to withdraw following their selection for the senior men’s Test series against Bangladesh. The second round matches in the Duleep Trophy starting from 12th September. The BCCI also revealed in a release that India A Captain Shubman Gill, KL Rahul, Dhruv Jurel, Kuldeep Yadav and Akash Deep…
iPhone 16 India Launch: Union Railways and Electronics and IT Minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw, on Tuesday said that Apple’s latest iPhone 16 is being produced and launched globally from the Indian manufacturing plants. The ‘Make in India’ new iPhones will be available in the country on September 20, and will be exported to other nations as well. “Apple’s latest iPhone 16 being produced and launched globally from Indian factories,” said Minister Vaishnaw. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’ initiative is now driving the creation of iconic products for the world,” the minister posted on X social media platform. iPhone exports…
Devara Trailer: After a long wait, the amazing trailer of the film ‘Devara’ was released on Tuesday. The film stars Junior NTR, Janhvi Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan in the lead roles. ‘Devara’ is a mass action drama in which Junior NTR is in a double role. In the film, he will first be playing the role of a father who is fearless and courageous and fights with Saif Ali Khan. In the second avatar, he is seen as simple and timid. The film is going to be released in theatres on September 27. Saif Ali Khan is going to…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has stayed trial court proceedings in a criminal defamation case against Congress leader Shashi Tharoor over a “scorpion sitting on a Shivling” remark made about Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2018.A bench comprising justices Hrishikesh Roy and R Mahadevan noted that the remark by Tharoor was not his original statement but was first made by another person in an article published in a magazine in 2012.”Eventually, it is a metaphor. The metaphor would refer to the invincibility of the person who is spoken about. Can the metaphor not be understood as pointing out the invincibility…
Lucknow. The police has arrested a tantrik who raped a woman in the name of tantra-mantra in the capital Lucknow. It is alleged that tantrik Ramnaresh Rawat took a woman to Amritsar in the name of exorcism and treatment, saying that she was possessed by a black demon. He kept the woman hostage for 3 days and raped her. He also kept making a video of the rape. The woman somehow came to Lucknow and told her story to the police. Now the police has arrested the accused. Girlfriend filed a case against the inspector, he raped her for 4…
Hazaribagh: Three people died in a road accident near UP turn in Charhi police station area. All were going to their home in Petarwar from Hazaribagh in an Alto car. All three deceased have been identified. They include Rahul Agarwal, Dipesh Prasad and driver Hemant Prasad. All are residents of Petarwar in Ramgarh district. After getting information about the incident, their family members also reached Sheikh Bhikhari Medical College Hospital. They told that the three youths were returning home after getting their car serviced in Hazaribagh. During this time, all three died in a road accident. All of them belong…
Purushottam Patra, Gariaband. More than 25 children fell ill after a lizard was found in the mid-day meal served at Pipalkhunta School in Mainpur on September 4, out of which the condition of two is said to be critical. Seeing the seriousness of the matter, the district administration has taken strict action and the Jai Durga group, which prepares the mid-day meal for the school, has now been removed from the food operation and instructions have been issued to register an FIR against all its members. Apart from this, the school’s head teacher Santosh Jagat has been suspended. DEO Anand…
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday slammed the Uttar Pradesh government, saying statistics of encounters during the BJP rule are also statistics of the “injustice of illegal killings” and “injustice done against the PDA”. The former chief minister also shared some data of “fake encounter killings”, claiming that 60 per cent of those killed in gunfights with the police belonged to the PDA — a combine of ‘Pichde, Dalit and Alpsankhyak’ communities (backwards, Dalits and minorities). However, the data had no source mentioned. Yadav coined the PDA ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. “The statistics of encounters…
Chandigarh. Hero MotoCorp has launched the 2024 model of the Xtreme 160R in India, with a starting price of Rs 1.11 lakh ex-showroom. Due to this new price, this bike has become cheaper by about Rs 10,000 compared to its previous model. What’s new in Hero Xtreme 160R 2V? The 2024 Extreme 160R 2V features several notable upgrades. One of its key features is the drag race timer, which is integrated into the fully digital instrument cluster. This feature offers two modes: D1 for 0-60 kmph speed and D2 for quarter-mile (402 m) speed. It is carried over from the…