The army said on Sunday that all its ammunition depots in Jammu and Kashmir are safe as regular safety audits of these installations are carried out. Reacting to some media reports that raised questions over the safety of the army’s ammunition depots in the state, Colonel S.D. Goswami, spokesman of the army’s Udhampur headquartered Northern […]
Three BSF troopers were killed and 10 other persons, among them civilians, were injured — three critically — on Friday in a Hizb-ul-Mujhadeen attack on a security forces convoy in south Kashmir’s Bijbehara town, police sources said. A police official here in Srinagar told IANS that “a BSF convoy coming from Jammu to Srinagar was […]
Tang Media Partners has acquired a majority stake in IM Global, the film and TV studio of Anil Ambani-led Reliance Entertainment. Tang Media and IM Global have also tied up with Asian internet giant Tencent for a new TV production joint venture, the companies said. The partnership includes a dedicated TV production investment and provides […]
At least two Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters and a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) member were injured in a clash in South Tripura district, police said on Friday. The BJP organised demonstrations and protest rallies in Belonia in South Tripura and Agartala late Thursday night immediately after the incident. The party also held demonstrations […]
As the BJP-led NDA government completes two years in office, an industry chamber described it as “work in progress” but said that “a lot more is required” to be done on the issue of tax disputes, while concerns remain on the huge bad loans incurred by the banking system. Here’s how key economic ministries have […]
New Delhi “I am looking at India holistically and we are here for the next thousand years,” Apple CEO Tim Cook asserted as the 55-year-old chief of Cupertino-based tech giant entered the final leg of his highly “encrypted” four-day India tour. In an interview given to the news channel NDTV, Cook said: “India is much […]
Two Indian-origin students won the 2016 Scripps National Spelling Bee, third straight year of double winners. Nihar Janga, 11, of Austin, Texas, and Jairam Hathwar, 13, of Corning, New York, were declared co-champions at the National Spelling Bee on Thursday night. “It was just insane, I don’t even know how to put it in words,” […]
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator Jagdeep Singh was on Sunday arrested on the charge of assaulting an employee of a waste management company here a week ago, police said. The MLA was later granted bail. The legislator from west Delhi’s Hari Nagar was accused of attacking Mohit, who works for a company contracted by the […]
Delhi residents got some respite from heat on Sunday after a rainy morning with maximum temperature coming down four notches below average to 36.7 degrees Celsius mark for the first time in the past fortnight due to the “western disturbance”. The cooler weather is likely to last till the month-end. The temperature is likely to […]
Sahara India chief Subrata Roy on Sunday said it was unfortunate that he could not meet Sahara Pariwar members after authorities imposed restrictions at his meeting venue in Cuttack and the place was evacuated. Apprehending trouble, Section 144 of the CrPC was imposed by police before Roy’s visit. He was scheduled to address the employees […]