The four-day monsoon session of the Delhi Assembly will start from August 8, the Delhi government said on Wednesday. “The Cabinet approved the convening of the monsoon session of the sixth Vidhan Sabha from August 8 to 11,” an official release said here. The Cabinet headed by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also approved a proposal […]
Security forces shot dead three militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam district, sparking street clashes in Srinagar which injured several civilian protestors and security personnel on Wednesday, officials said. Police said one of the killed Hizbul Mujahideen militants was also involved in the lynching of Deputy Superintendent of Police Muhammad Ayub Pandit outside a mosque […]
Heavy rains continued to pound Uttarakhand for the second consecutive day on Thursday leading to chaos and disruption of normal life. Schools and colleges in many places including state capital Dehradun and Haridwar remained closed as roads were blocked due to landslides and low lying areas remained water logged. The route to the annual Chaar […]
A fresh batch of 3,500 pilgrims left Jammu for the Kashmir Valley on Thursday to perform the annual Amarnath Yatra. “A fresh batch of 3,500 pilgrims left the Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas in an escorted convoy of 153 vehicles at 3.25 a.m.,” officials said here. The rush of devotees has continued unabated despite the terror […]
Taking a cue from global markets the key Indian equity market indices on Thursday opened higher. The Sensitive Index (Sensex) of the BSE, which had closed at 31,804.82 points on Wednesday, opened higher at 31,896.23 points. Minutes into trading, it was quoting at 31,981.16 points, up by 176.34 points, or 0.55 per cent from Wednesday’s […]
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday said the overwhelming condemnation of the Amarnath terror attack by Kashmiris has proved that the eclectic culture and tradition known as ‘Kashmiriyat’ is alive. Mehbooba Mufti was speaking to the media after paying homage to the martyrs of 1931, who laid down their lives fighting the […]
A gunfight was on Tuesday night between three militants trapped in a village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Badgam district and security forces surrounding the village, officials said. The gunfight broke out in Radpug village of Mahagam area at around 7.30 p.m. when the militants opened fire at a joint security team undertaking cordon and search […]
In a heart-wrenching incident, a middle-aged woman believed to be in her late-forties, was rescued on Tuesday after nearly 15 years from a locked room of her maternal house in North Goa’s Candolim village. Superintendent of Police (Crime) Karthik Kashyap told reporters here that the woman, identified as Sunita Verlekar, was rescued with the help […]
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on Tuesday said it has initiated an internal investigation into allegations that some of its officials were bribed by a US-based construction firm between 2011 and 2015. “NHAI has initiated an internal investigation into alleged payment of bribe money to its officials as reported in the media,” said […]
A fresh batch of pilgrims on Wednesday left for the Himalayan cave shrine amid tight security as the Amarnath Yatra continued post a Lashkar terror strike in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district. “Another batch of 3,791 yatris left the Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas in 101 vehicles, including 55 buses and 46 light motor vehicles for […]