SRINAGAR — Tourists from Karnataka and Bengaluru who visited Kashmir last week were stuck there due to the unexpected curfew. Phone network and internet was snapped and they had no way to reach out to their families or move from one district to another, following the death of the separatist, Sayed Ali Shah Geelani on […]
NEW DELHI — The Delhi Police have arrested a gang of four economic offenders allegedly involved in an insurance fraud case targetting veteran army officials. The group was cheating the veterans in the name of facilitating release of outstanding insurance of maturities and bonus. The fraudsters were demanding money from their targetted persons. According to […]
NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court on Friday granted yet another opportunity to the Centre to formulate uniform guidelines for issuance of death certificates with regard to those who succumbed to COVID-19. A two-judge bench of the Apex Court, headed by Justice MR Shah and also comprising Justice Aniruddha Bose today granted 10 more days […]
NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court on Thursday voiced serious concern over running of fake news on social media platforms and web portals, and said even news shown in a section of channels bears communal tone, which may bring a bad name to the country. A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana was […]
NEW DELHI — Several Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student groups and teachers’ associations have slammed vice-chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar for calling the new counter-terrorism course to be taught to engineering students “holistic”. Kumar had Wednesday said the criticism of it was “needless controversy” without going into the “academic merits” of the course. The Indian Express […]
NEW DELHI — The prices of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cooking gas cylinders across all categories including subsidised gas on Wednesday were hiked by Rs 25 per cylinder — the third straight increase in rates in less than two months. Subsidised as well as non-subsidised LPG now costs Rs 884.50 per 14.2-kg cylinder in Delhi, […]
NEW DELHI — After the US completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, Taliban initiated dialogue with India in Qatar over safety, security and early return of Indian nationals stranded over there, the Ministry of External Affairs said Tuesday. For the first time, India has made public a meeting held between the two sides. The ministry stated […]
NEW DELHI — Prominent Muslim body Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind on Monday advocated setting up of separate schools and colleges for girls and said non-Muslims should also refrain from giving co-education to their daughters to “keep them away from immorality and misbehaviour”. In a statement issued after the working committee meeting of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind (Maulana Arshad […]
NEW DELHI — COVID-19 has devastated many lives and it is “heart wrenching” that the survival of children who lost either or both parents during the pandemic is at stake, the Supreme Court said, but expressed satisfaction over schemes announced by the Centre and states to provide succour to them. The apex court said that […]
SRINAGAR — Senior leader and former minister Prof. Saif-ud-din Soz Monday said that the Supreme Court of India has shown itself in poor light by not including Justice Akil Kurashi in the list of nine judges that the collegium has recommended to the government. In a statement, Soz said that the general run of people […]