NEW DELHI — Travellers fully vaccinated and coming from a country with which India has reciprocal arrangements for mutual acceptance of WHO approved COVID-19 vaccines shall be allowed to leave the airport and need not undergo home quarantine and testing from October 25, according to the revised guidelines for international arrivals released on Wednesday. They […]
CHANDIGARH — Punjab Police on Wednesday seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition, besides heroin during a search operation conducted near the India-Pakistan border in Tarn Taran district, Punjab officiating Director General of Police Iqbal Preet Singh Sahota said here on Wednesday. The operation was jointly conducted by the Border Security Force (BSF) and […]
SRINAGAR — National Investigation Agency (NIA) Wednesday said that it conducted searches at 11 locations in Kashmir and arrested four persons. In a statement, NIA spokesman said that the investigating agency conducted searches at 11 locations in Srinagar, Pulwama, Kulgam and Baramulla districts of Jammu and Kashmir and arrested four more persons— Suhail Ahmad Thokar […]
GUWAHATI — Assam Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Bhabesh Kalita stoked a controversy when he said that tripling on two-wheelers would be permitted when the price of petrol would rise up to Rs 200 a litre in the state. “Three persons will be allowed to ride a two-wheeler after the price of petrol rises to […]
NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a plea to call for a report on investigations in the FIRs registered in different states over the alleged malpractices in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET-UG) which was held on September 12, saying that any interference will be detrimental to a large number of […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Ramiz Raja has emphasised the need for the revival of sporting ties between archrivals India and Pakistan, who have been fighting it out against each other at their borders and the sporting arena. He said it was high time that cricket, the most loved sport of all in […]
SRINAGAR — Advising present government to adopt people friendly approach, senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Ghulam Nabi Azad Wednesday said that it has become very vital to nab anyone involved in target killings so that their modus operandi could be known and made public. While condemning the target killings […]
MUMBAI — A special NDPS court in Mumbai has rejected the bail plea of Aryan Khan, the son of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, as well as the pleas filed by two others arrested in connection with the Mumbai cruise ship drugs bust. Aryan Khan and two others — Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha — […]
SRINAGAR — PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday asked Meghalaya Governor Satya Pal Malik to withdraw his purported comments that the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister was a beneficiary of now-abandoned Roshni scheme, failing which legal action will be taken against him. “False & unsavoury utterances of Satya Pal Malik about me being a […]
NEW DELHI — Former Bangladesh cricket captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza has condemned the recent attacks against the Hindu community in his country, saying this is “not the red and green we wanted to see”. In a Facebook post written in Bangla Monday, Mortaza said this is the loss of an entire nation. “We witnessed two […]