SRINAGAR — Higher reaches including Gulmarg received fresh snowfall while rains lashed plains in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Monday. The snowfall has led to closure of Bandipora-Gurez as well as Srinagar-Leh roads besides Machil, Keran and Karnah. Mughal road, connecting shopian with Poonch and Rajouri districts as well as Kishtwar-Sinthan road are closed. […]
JAMMU — Ghulam Nabi Azad Sunday put to rest all speculations about his possible exit from the party, calling himself a “24 Carat Congressman” and saying he was not upset with the party, but was instead working for unifying and uniting its workers. The former chief minister has been holding public rallies in Jammu and […]
NEW DELHI — Hitting out at the Centre over the Nagaland firing incident earlier this month, the Congress on Sunday demanded Home Minister Amit Shah’s resignation, compensation to the victims and an independent probe headed by a sitting Guwahati High Court judge. The Opposition party made the demands after a delegation, comprising Congress general secretary […]
NEW DELHI — A senior epidemiologist at AIIMS who is the principal investigator of Covaxin trials for adults and children at the institute on Sunday termed the Centre’s decision to vaccinate children against Covid “unscientific” and said it will not yield any additional benefit. Dr Sanjay K Rai, who is also the president of the […]
JAMMU — The parents of an eight-year-old nomad girl, who was brutally raped and murdered in Kathua district of Jammu, are anguished that while their appeal for enhancement of sentence against six people remains unheard, two convicts were released on bail in the Kathua rape and murder case, described by a court as a “devilish […]
KOHIMA — The Nagaland government on Sunday said that a committee would soon be instituted to look into the withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from the state. The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on December 23rd and the same was attended by Nagaland […]
HARYANA — A statue of Jesus Christ was vandalised at a Church in Haryana’s Ambala this afternoon. Police are analysing CCTV footage but haven’t yet been able to identify the criminals. “Two men jumped the boundary wall at 12:30 pm and vandalised a Jesus Christ’s statue at around 1:40 pm. They haven’t been identified yet, […]
NEW DELHI — A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions to the high courts to take appropriate steps to adopt a uniform procedure for case registration and to use common judicial terms, phrases and abbreviations. The plea, filed by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, has also sought directions to the Law Commission […]
KUPWARA — Bodies of both the teenage boys fallen into a storage tank in Dardpora Kralpora in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district have been retrieved a few hours into a joint rescue operation launched by locals, police and army at the site. As reported two boys namely Amir Mohuiddin Khawaja son of Ghulam Mohuiddin Khawaja and […]
KUPWARA — Two teenage boys are feared to have died after falling into a storage tank in Dardpora Kralpora in frontier north Kashmir’s Kupwara district this afternoon. Reports reaching GNS said that two boys namely Amir Mohuiddin Khawaja son of Ghulam Mohuiddin Khawaja and Faheem Iqbal Khawaja son of Mohammad Iqbal Khawaja, residents of Maidan […]