NEW DELHI — The Union Cabinet on Wednesday decided to extend till March the free foodgrains supply under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) to provide relief to ration cardholders. The 5 kg foodgrain per person per month is being provided free of cost to more than 80 crore beneficiaries under the PMGKAY. […]
NEW DELHI — An Indian parliamentary panel has recommended treating social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook as publishers and setting up a regulatory body to oversee them, potentially opening the companies up to more liability for user-generated content. The high-level committee made those recommendations as it reviewed the personal data protection bill introduced in […]
NEW DELHI — India’s civil aviation ministry official said today that international flight operations is expected to return to “normal” soon. “We are making all efforts to handover all operations of Air India by the end of December,” aviation ministry official Rajiv Bansal said. India had suspended international passenger flights in March last year amid […]
NEW DELHI — The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a bill to repeal the three farm laws, which triggered protests at Delhi borders by thousands of farmers, according to official sources. The Farm Laws Repeal Bill, 2021 was approved days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement to repeal the three central farm laws. The new […]
SRINAGAR — Deputy Inspector General, National Investigation Agency, Amit Kumar has been conferred with the prestigious Shaurya Chakra award by President Ram Nath Kovind. Kumar was conferred with Shaurya Chakra, the third in order of precedence of peacetime gallantry awards and comes after the Ashoka Chakra and the Kirti Chakra. It precedes the Yudh Seva […]
NEW DELHI — Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Wednesday said that as many as 500 farmers will reach Delhi on 30 tractors on November 29. He further stated that other details regarding the same will be disclosed after a meeting scheduled to take place on November 26, which marks the first anniversary of […]
NEW DELHI — Gautam Gambhir has alleged a death threat to him and his family from ISIS Kashmir in a police complaint filed in Delhi, NDTV reported. According to the report security has been tightened outside his home in the national capital after the complaint was filed last night, and a probe has been ordered. […]
SRINAGAR — A driver died in a road accident at Shaitani Nallah near Jawahar tunnel, officials said on Wednesday. Officials told that a tanker bearing registration number JK14A/9786 was on way to Srinagar from Jammu in the intervening night of Tuesday-Wednesday when it fell down into a deep gorge at Shatani Nallah. The driver of […]
SRINAGAR — A day after Srinagar recorded the season’s coldest night so far, the minimum temperature rose in the summer capital and elsewhere in Kashmir Valley on Wednesday. A meteorological department official said that mercury settled at 0.3°C against the previous night’s minus 1.7°C which happened to be the coldest low temperature recorded so far […]
SRINAGAR — The administration in Kashmir University has failed to provide electricity to the hostel boarders of Quratul Ain Hyder hostel by not repairing a faulty generator. Students told that from the last one month the electricity generator is not working in the hostel, which is compelling them to spend nights in the dark. “Whenever […]