NEW DELHI: The prospects of early resumption of talks between the Centre and the Apex Body, Leh (ABL) on the latter’s demand for safeguards for Ladakh, have brightened with ABL agreeing to drop political parties’ representatives from its negotiating team and veteran leader Thupstan Chhewang consenting to lead the dialogue once again.Chhewang and Congress leader…
RUDRAPUR: The body of a 14-year-old girl with a broken hand and bearing multiple stab wounds was found lying in a sugarcane field, 150m from her home in a village in Uttarakhand’s Udham Singh Nagar district Tuesday. The accused, a 20-year-old from the same village, was arrested Wednesday. According to police, the Class 8 student…
NEW DELHI: The three-day combined commanders’ conference (CCC) at Kolkata, which concluded on Wednesday, has chalked out a roadmap to transform the armed forces into a more integrated, technologically advanced and operationally agile force, fully capable of addressing multi-domain threats, safeguarding national interests and contributing to nation-building.A new joint military space doctrine, which is “a…
MUMBAI: Police late on Wednesday evening arrested a man, identified as Upendra Pawaskar, for allegedly defacing the statue of the late Meenatai Thackeray, wife of Shiv Sena founder (late) Bal Thackeray, at Shivaji Park. The statue had been found defaced with oil paint, prompting police to launch a probe amid outrage voiced by workers from…
Paramjit Singh, an Indian who immigrated to the United States more than 30 years ago, has been detained by the ICE and kept in custody for over a month now. Paramjit is a green card holder and has been doing business in Fort Wayne, Indiana, for the last three decades. He was detained at Chicago…
TIRUPATI: A sand-laden lorry speeding on the wrong side of the road crashed into an SUV and dragged it for some distance, killing seven members of a family, near Peramana village in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh Wednesday.The deceased were identified as Talluru Srinivasulu (36), his wife Talluru Radha (38), Sesham Saramma (40), Challagundla Lakshmi…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has pulled up Tamil Nadu govt over 41 missing files related to investigations into theft of idols in the state and raised the question whether fires occur simultaneously in 38 different police stations or was there any circular to destroy the files.A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and R…
NEW DELHI: In a move to ensure quality project execution and reduce delays, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has tightened norms to check “unathorised” subcontracting of works by main highway builders. It has said that any “unauthorised subcontracting and subcontracting beyond permissible limits will be classified as ‘undesirable practice’, thereby attracting penalties on par…
KULLU/DEHRADUN: This monsoon, from Kullu to Kalimpong, Kishtwar to Karnaprayag, landslides, flash floods and ground subsidence sharpened the focus on how India’s expanding network of highways, tunnels, ropeways and hydropower dams is affecting the fragile Himalayan terrain. While officials insist these were natural calamities, a growing number of residents, scientists and campaigners point to unscientific…
NEW DELHI: The two accused, wanted in connection with the case of firing outside actor Disha Patani‘s father’s residence, have succumbed to injuries following an encounter with Uttar Pradesh’s Special Task Force, Delhi Police said on Wednesday. The accused have been identified as Ravinda alias Kullu and Arun. The police revealed that the arrest took…
