Two-wheeler industry faces short-term challenges due to the COVID-19 situation but the overall India growth story remained intact, Hero MotoCorp said in its Annual Report for 2019-20. Sharing information with company shareholders, Hero MotoCorp Chairman Pawan Munjal noted that there remains ample growth opportunities for the company in domestic as well international markets. “The short-term business outlook remains uncertain due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the long-term story of India and that of the two-wheeler industry remains intact, strong and positive,” Munjal said. There are ample growth opportunities in India, as well as in the global markets to grow company’s…
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When instructional establishments are shut and are striving to finish programs on-line, in Rajasthan colleges are traumatising dad and mom and college students over non-payment of charges by blocking them from on-line courses and dropping them from faculty WhatsApp teams, flouting the state authorities order. In a July 7 order, the state authorities mentioned no faculty ought to demand cost of tuition charges until they remained closed because of Covid-19 and no college students be declined entry to training over it. Nonetheless, many colleges are flouting the order, and are calling dad and mom and taking motion towards college students…
The Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust during a meeting has decided that the proposed Ram temple here in Uttar Pradesh would have a height of 161 feet along with five domes. The president of the trust, Mahant Nritya Gopal, presided over the meeting here on Saturday. All members of the trust were present in this meeting that continued for over 2 hours and all the points regarding the construction of the temple were discussed. Kameshwar Chaupal, a member of the Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, said: “Ram Temple will be 161 feet high and now five domes will be…
BATHINDA DISTRICT Health Officer (DHO) Ramesh Maheshwari has been suspended after a voice call recording of him allegedly demanding Rs 200 from a shopkeeper went viral on social media. In the recording, Maheshwari was purportedly heard telling the shopkeeper — who allegedly requested the DHO not to take the bribe for the sake of personal relationship — that no one can be exempt from the system because if one person stopped giving bribe, the others will also stop and the system would collapse. DHO Maheshwari also had additional charge as designated officer (DO) under the Food Safety Act. He was…
A day after a top Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) commander was among three militants killed in a gunbattle in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district, at least three militants Saturday were shot dead in an encounter with security forces in neighbouring Shopian district. Police officials said the encounter broke out at Amshipora area of Shopian early on Saturday morning. An Army statement issued in Srinagar confirmed that three militants had been killed in the operation. “Joint Operation was launched today early morning. The Security Forces were fired upon while laying the cordon, from the cow shed of the lone house in the orchard. Firefight…
A day after the Special Operation Group (SOG) of Rajasthan Police registered criminal cases over purported audio clips of BJP leaders plotting to topple the Ashok Gehlot government, the BJP on Saturday sought a CBI probe into the “phone tapping” of all the political leaders in the state. On Friday, the state’s ruling party released the audio tapes of a purported telephonic conversation between a dissident Congress MLA and Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat. Shekhawat denied the charges, saying that the voice or the diction in the audio did not belong to him. Asked whether Sanjay Jain, whose voice was…
The human trials of Bharat Biotech and ICMR’s coronavirus candidate vaccine commenced at Rohtak’s PGIMS Friday. The state, meanwhile, witnessed its highest single-day number of coronavirus positive patients by adding 795 new patients and five deaths in the last 24 hours. With this, Haryana’s total Covid count has reached 24,797 and death toll stands at 327. The total number of active Covid-19 patients in the state on Friday evening were 5,752. There were 76 critical patients out of which 59 were on oxygen support, while 17 patients were on ventilator. Also on Friday, samples of Haryana’s Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala…
The Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, set up by the government to construct the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, will meet in the temple town on Saturday to decide the date for starting the temple construction work. The construction of a Ram temple, which was set to begin a few months ago, had to be postponed on account of the coronavirus-induced lockdown in March. Sources said that the new date for beginning the temple construction is likely to be in the first week of August and Prime Minister Narendra Modi may grace the occasion. “There are many things on the agenda…
Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on Saturday said Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra should take cognisance of the instability in the state and recommend President’s Rule. Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, she said, had openly violated the Anti-Defection law and cheated the BSP for a second time by getting its MLAs included in the Congress. https://twitter.com/Mayawati/status/1284369314468909056? ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1284369314468909056%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Findianexpress.com%2Farticle%2Findia%2Frajasthan-governor-should-recommend-presidents-rule-mayawati-6512003%2F “And it is also evident he did an illegal and unconstitutional thing by phone tapping,” Mayawati said in a series of tweets in Hindi. “The governor (of Rajasthan) must take cognisance of the political deadlock and instability prevailing in Rajasthan, and should recommend imposition…
As part of the investigation, the SIT will check if Dubey occupied government and private land, and if it was facilitated by officers. If so, it has to identify those guilty. A Special Investigation Team (SIT) set up to conduct inquiries into the rise of gangster Vikas Dubey, who was killed in an encounter last week, will probe nine aspects of his criminal career, including cases against him, the source of his wealth and alleged nexus with the police, the government has said. The team led by Additional Chief Secretary Sanjay Bhoosreddy, and comprising Additional Director General of Police Hariram…