A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.4 jolted Nepal on Friday night with tremors reverberating through parts of north India, including Delhi NCR, the National Centre for Seismology said. The epicentre of the quake was in Nepal at a depth of 10 km, the NCS said. People in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) felt strong tremors and rushed out of their homes. This is the third time in a month that strong quakes have struck Nepal.
Delhi LG V K Saxena says air pollution situation extremely worrying, calls meeting with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at 6 pm.
Indian airline IndiGo's operator Interglobe Aviation on Friday reported a second-quarter profit on steady demand for air travel, which outpaced a sharp rise in expenses. India's largest carrier reported a profit of Rs 188 crore ($22.58 million) in the three months to Sept. 30, compared to a loss of Rs 1,585 crore a year before.
Zomato on Friday reported a surprise profit for the second quarter as consumers ordered more from restaurants and its online grocery stores.The company's net profit came in at Rs 36 crore ($4.32 million) for the three months ended Sept. 30, compared with a net loss of Rs 251 crore year earlier.
At least five people have been killed and over 20 are wounded in a blast that took place in the Dera Ismail Khan district of Pakistan on Friday, Samaa TV reported. Following the explosion that occurred in Tank Adda in Ponda Bazar of DI Khan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, emergency measures have been put in hospitals nearby. Samaa TV is a Pakistani Urdu language news channel, the fourth largest in the country.
The Supreme Court on Friday asked suspended AAP lawmaker Raghav Chadha to tender an unconditional apology to Rajya Sabha chairperson Jagdeep Dhankhar on the select committee issue, and hoped that he would take a sympathetic view of the matter. A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra asked Attorney General R Venkataramani to apprise it of the developments in the matter after the Diwali vacation.
The Congress on Friday voiced concern over rising air pollution in the country and called for a total revamp of the Air Pollution Act and air quality standards to make them stringent and effective. The demand came amid rising air pollution levels in the national capital and other parts of the country. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said The Air Pollution (Control and Prevention) Act came into being in 1981. Thereafter, ambient air quality standards were announced in April 1994 and later revised in October 1998, he noted.
Delhi Minister Raaj Kumar Anand, who underwent more than 20 hours of questioning by the Enforcement Directorate, criticised the central government for the agency's actions, asserting that the raid is merely a pretext to harass individuals. Speaking to ANI after the ED questioning, the minister claimed that the federal agency did not find anything suspicious from his residence during its search. "Raid is just an excuse to harass people. They (ED) received nothing during the search. They have got orders from the above...I feel that in this country saying truth and doing politics for the poor is a sin," he said.
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