Authorities imposed restrictions in parts of the city here on Saturday to prevent separatist-called protests against civilian killings during gunfights between security forces and militants. Prohibitory orders were imposed in Rainawari, Khanyar, Nowhatta, M.R.Gunj and Safakadal in old Srinagar and Maisuma and Kralkhud in uptown areas by the Srinagar District Magistrate. “Essential services, government employees, […]
Five wrestlers and a driver were killed in a major road accident in Sangli district of Maharahstra early on Saturday, police said. The accident took place around 1 a.m. when an SUV carrying the grapplers rammed headlong into an oncoming tractor carrying sugarcane. Five others, including wrestlers, were injured in the accident and they were […]
It was a misty Saturday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 5.5 degrees Celsius, two notches below the season’s average, the weather office said. The Met Office has predicted a clear day ahead. “The morning was misty with shallow fog. The day will mainly be clear,” an India Meteorological Department (IMD) official said. […]
The cold wave sweeping through Jammu and Kashmir further tightened its grip on the valley even as people in Jammu prepared to celebrate the Lohri festival on Saturday. Lohri marks the season’s turnaround. Camp fires would be organised in Jammu, around which people would gather in the evening to welcome comparatively warmer days ahead. People […]
A youth was killed and two others injured when their car hit a tree here early Saturday, police said it was yet another case of drunken driving. The accident occurred on Road Number 78 in the posh Jubliee Hills area. There were four youth in the car that was being driven at a very high […]
Dozens of Activists held a rally here on Thursday to protest against the Guantanamo Bay detention camp while urging an end to “indefinite detention.” At Lafayette Square in front of the White House, some protesters were wearing orange jumpsuits and bags over their heads as others were holding banners that carry slogans urging the closure […]
Tech giant Foxconn is facing some legal obstacles concerning its planned display screen plant in the midwest US state of Wisconsin, as some villagers opposed to what they called “unconstitutional eminent domain.” A dozen families who would lose their homes to the Foxconn project have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit this week against the […]
Key Indian equity indices — Sensex and Nifty50 — opened at fresh levels on Friday as optimism prevailed ahead of the announcement of the quarterly earnings of IT major Infosys. According to market observers, healthy buying was witnessed in consumer durables, banking and metal stocks. The wider Nifty50 of the National Stock Exchange (NSE), which […]
Two Maoists have been killed in a shootout with the CRPF during a search operation launched by the paramilitary force in Hazaribagh in Jharkhand, an official said on Friday. The shootout took place around 11.23 p.m. on Thursday between the Maoists and a joint team of the 22 Battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force […]
India on Friday deployed a remote sensing Cartosat and 30 other satellites, including 28 from six nations into the earth’s orbit after a copybook launch from its spaceport here. The 44.4-metre tall Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C40) roared into a clear sky after a perfect lift-off at 9.29 a.m. following a 28-hour countdown. The 320-tonne […]