MUMBAI: The Maharashtra election commission has ur-ged EC to allow additions and deletions to the July 1 voter list being used for the local body polls up to Oct 15. In a letter, it asked that additional names be included as a supplementary voter list while maintaining the cutoff date of July 1.EC has not…
GUWAHATI: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday ordered police to file treason charges against Congress members in Sribhumi district after a video showed a senior party functionary singing Bangladesh’s national anthem at a meeting Monday.Sarma condemned the act as a “grave insult to national sentiments”. “The anthem was sung with the reverence reserved for…
SRINAGAR: For the law students gathered last week at Tagore Hall — a modest state-run auditorium tucked behind Iqbal Park in Srinagar’s Gogji Bagh — filing RTI applications began as an exercise for their coursework. Soon, though, it became an early education in how power responds to questions. Some received partial replies. Others got silence….
A family of a stampede victim has returned Rs 20 lakh relief from the TVK party, citing deep disappointment. They were angered that the party took estranged relatives to meet their leader, Vijay, instead of offering personal condolences. The family felt their name was misused, leading to the return of the funds via bank transfer….
SRINAGAR: Several members of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Wednesday urged the government to seek the transfer of “hundreds of Kashmiri prisoners” lodged in jails across the country back to the Valley and expressed concern over “deteriorating health of separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah”.Outside the Assembly, Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq issued a separate…
SRINAGAR: A Congress resolution seeking a National Law University in J&K split the assembly on regional lines Wednesday, with National Conference (NC) pushing for its establishment in Srinagar and BJP arguing against naming any location.After CM Omar Abdullah announced interim arrangements to begin classes next financial year in temporary facilities at Ompora near Srinagar airport,…
Masood Azhar (File photo) Days after Jaish-e-Mohammed announced the formation of its first-ever women’s wing, ‘Jamaat-ul-Mominaat’, the JeM’s chief Masood Azhar has released a 21-minute audio message from group’s Bahawalpur headquarters, Markaz Usman o Ali, outlining a detailed plan for training, indoctrinating, and deploying women under the new unit, as local media reported.According to media…
JAMMU: Srinagar-Katra Vande Bharat Express (26401-26402) stopped for the first time at the Reasi railway station on Wednesday. Uchit Singhal, SDCM of Northern Railway (Jammu Division), said the train has a halt of 2 minutes at Reasi in both directions. “Until now, the semi-high-speed train only had a single stop between Katra and Srinagar, at…
MUMBAI: Singapore’s High Commissioner to India, Simon Wong, on Wednesday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for highlighting the launch of PSA Mumbai’s Phase 2 Terminal Expansion during his address at the India Maritime Week 2025 in Mumbai.He noted that Singapore is glad to be India’s largest foreign investorIn a post on X, Wong wrote, “A…
NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs on Wednesday assured that it was working to repatriate nearly 500 Indians detained in Thailand after they crossed over the border amid Myanmar scam hub crackdown.“We are aware of Indian nationals who have been detained by Thai authorities. They had crossed into Thailand from Myanmar over the past…
