JAIPUR — Two soldiers from Rajasthan who died in Bandipora of Jammu and Kashmir were cremated with military honours in their native villages on Monday. An Army truck fell into a ditch in Bandipora on Saturday, killing Lance Naik Nitish Kumar Yadav of Behror (Kotputli-Behror) and Havildar Hariram Rewad of Jayal town of Nagaur in […]
PORBANDAR, GUJARAT — Three crew members were killed after a helicopter of the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) crashed and caught fire at an airport on the outskirts of Gujarat’s Porbandar city, police said. The incident took place at 12.10 pm when the ICG’s Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH), which was returning from a routine sortie, crashed […]
NEW DELHI — The Vande Bharat sleeper train has achieved a peak speed of 180 km per hour in multiple trials over the last three days on a 40-km stretch in Rajasthan, the Railway Ministry said on Friday. “The trails will continue until this month’s end before this world-class long-distance travel is made available to […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah on Friday expressed grief over former prime minister Manmohan Singh’s demise, saying his biggest legacy was that he tried to keep India united and spread love across the nation. “Singh was an excellent economist. His biggest achievement was that he tried to keep India united. He opened […]
KOLKATA — A suspected member of a militant outfit in Kashmir valley was arrested from West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district on Sunday, a police officer said. Javed Munshi, suspected to be a member of the outlawed ‘Tehreek e Mujahideen’ outfit in Kashmir Valley was picked from near Canning Hospital by a joint team of […]
SRINAGAR — Violence in Sambhal was not a Hindu-Muslim issue but a “failure” of the state, Lok Sabha Member Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi said on Thursday. Mehdi said he came to the conclusion after his visit to Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday and his interactions with the families of those killed in the Police […]
NEW DELHI — The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted searches at 19 locations across five states as part of its ongoing investigation into a case linked to the radicalization of individuals associated with the proscribed terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammed. The raids were underway since early morning at the hideouts of suspects in Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, […]
NEW DELHI — India’s oldest Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband on Wednesday opposed the proposed changes to the existing Waqf law during a meeting with the Parliamentary panel examining the bill. Maulana Arshad Madani, the principal of Darul Uloom Deoband, appearing before the Joint Committee on the Waqf Amendment Bill, chaired by BJP member Jagdambika […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference Lok Sabha MP from Srinagar Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi on Tuesday said he is planning to submit a notice to bring an impeachment motion against Allahabad High Court judge Shekhar KumarYadav for his remarks at a VHP event. Mehdi said he has been assured of support by members of the Congress, […]
KURUKSHETRA — A Kashmiri vendor was allegedly manhandled by a group of men during the ongoing International Gita Festival here, prompting police to register an FIR in the matter, officials said on Monday. The incident took place on Saturday when the vendor from Srinagar was allegedly manhandled by a group of men who were holding […]