Around 1,500 Indian Sikhs with over 500 from European countries and more than 2,000 Pakistani Hindus and Sikhs are participating in the Baisakhi celebrations that began in Punjab province, the media reported. Baisakhi is widely celebrated by Sikhs in the province, with festivities centred on Panja Sahib Complex in Hasan Abdal town, Attock district that […]
Life returned to normal on Friday in Jammu and Kashmir after train services and internet facilities were restored in the valley. Train service between north Kashmir’s Baramulla town and Jammu’s Bannihal town was resumed after five days. Internet facility on mobile phones which had been suspended on April 8 was restored on Thursday evening. Broadband […]
Authorities on Monday made heavy deployment of police and Central Reserve Police Force to maintain law and order as the separatists called protest shutdown affected life across the Kashmir Valley. “Etiquette deployments have been made to maintain the law and order situation on Monday,” a senior police official said here. Eight protesters were killed when […]
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was accorded a ceremonial welcome on Monday at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here. Prime Minister Narendra Modi received Turnbull. He was then accorded the ceremonial guard of honour. This is Turnbull’s first bilateral visit to India since he assumed office in September 2015. His predecessor, Tony Abbott had visited India in […]
Over two weeks after he was blacklisted and grounded by all airlines, Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad here on Monday morning took wings again on a Pune-New Delhi flight, authorities said. Reduced to train and road travel and avoiding the media glare till now, the Osmanabad MP took the Pune-New Delhi AI-852, which has now […]
In a major set back to Aam Aadmi Party government here, the Shunglu Committee formed by former Lt Governor Najeeb Jung to look into decisions taken by the government, has questioned several appointments made, including the appointment of Health Minister Satyendar Jain’s daughter Soumya Jain in Mohalla Clinic project. The committee reviewed 404 files of […]
By Bhanupriya Rao Padiganalam (Tamil Nadu) Married against her wishes at 11 to her dead sister’s husband, Sidhamallamma Kanchappa gave birth to her first child at home when she was 12. It was 1998, the child nearly died, and the doctors at the hospital chided her for marrying so young. That experience taught her the […]
The India-Malaysia bilateral trade dwindled to a little over $10 billion in the last fiscal and it is to reverse this fall that Prime Minister Najib Razak is here, a Malaysian Minister said on Monday. Razak is leading the largest ever delegation with 11 ministers, Malaysia’s Minister of International Trade and Industry Mustapa Mohamed said. […]
President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday visited the ruins of Vikramshila University, an ancient seat of Buddhist learning, in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district. Mukherjee reached Bhagalpur on Sunday evening. He began a three-day visit to West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar on April 1. The President also visited the university museum. Vikramshila was among the most important centres […]
Senior Delhi Congress member Ashok Kumar Walia on Monday offered to resign from the party as he was not happy with the ticket distribution for civic polls. A party source told IANS that Walia was unhappy with the ticket distribution for civic polls scheduled to be held on April 23. Walia was MLA from Laxminagar […]