By Imran Khan Patna It was a sunny day and Raj Kumar Vaishya had trouble walking. But determined to get a postgraduate degree, the 97-year-old sat for a three-hour MA exam, along with students younger than his grandchildren. Vaishya, who graduated in 1938, was appearing for his final year MA (economics) examination at Nalanda Open […]
It was a pleasant Monday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 26.7 degrees Celsius, a notch below the season’s average, the weather office said. “The sky will remain generally. There will be light rain or thundershowers,” an official at the India Meteorological Department (IMD) told IANS. The humidity at 8.30 […]
Showering lavish praises on President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said he – an outsider to Delhi politics before 2014 – settled in the capital in his new role holding on to Mukherjees fingers. Affectionately calling him ‘Pranabda’, Modi said: “Pranabda ki ungli pakad kar Delhi ki zindagi mein apne aap ko […]
Amid unprecedented security arrangements, a fresh batch of 3,133 pilgrims left Jammu on Monday for the Amarnath Yatra, an official said. They left the Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas in 88 vehicles for the Kashmir Valley, the official said. Over 46,000 pilgrims have performed ‘darshan’ inside the cave shrine in four days. On Monday 2,081 pilgrims […]
One militant was killed on Monday in an operation with the security forces in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, police said. Acting on specific information the army carried out the operation in Bahmnoo village in which the militant was killed, a police spokesman said. Jammu and Kashmir police and the Central Reserve Police Force have joined […]
Key Indian equity market indices opened in the green on Monday after the roll-out of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on July 1. The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) was trading 147.59 points or 0.48 per cent higher during the early session. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was also trading […]
A woman civilian was killed in a cross-firing between security forces and militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Saturday, police said. “Security forces were fired at when they launched an operation in Batpora village after a tip-off about the militants hiding in a house,” the police said in a statement here.” “In the […]
A fresh batch of 4,477 pilgrims on Saturday left winter capital Jammu to perform the Amarnath Yatra after the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was restored for traffic. “Comprising 3,298 males, 986 females and 193 sadhus, the yatris left the Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas in 136 vehicles escorted by the security forces”, officials said. The convoy of […]
A suspected militant stabbed two policemen at a mosque near the police headquarters in Jakarta, officials said. The knife-wielding man was shot dead after he attacked the policemen at 7.40 (local time) just after a pray at Falatehan mosque in South Jakarta, Indonesia’s national police spokesman Inspector General Setyo Wasisto said. “Several members of the […]
Authorities have imposed restrictions in parts of Srinagar city on Saturday to prevent protests against the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in the state. Kashmir Traders and Manufacturers Federation (KTMF) President Muhammad Yasin Khan has called for the valley-wide protests and shutdown. Jammu and Kashmir is the only state yet to make […]