JAMMU: Bodies of two flash flood victims, including a minor girl, were found on Tuesday after intensive searches in Jammu’s Rajouri and Poonch districts, while Army troops, in a swift rescue operation, evacuated several people stranded on an island in the swollen Poonch River in Lower Kuniyan area of Poonch.According to officials, a search and…
NEW DELHI: Citing safety concerns amid ongoing inclement weather in J&K and two back-to-back cloudburst tragedies in Kishtwar and Kathua districts, the Doda district administration has curtailed the three-day Kailash Kund Yatra in Bhaderwah from Aug 20-22 to only symbolic rituals this year.Kailash Kund Yatra is considered one of the toughest treks, wherein pilgrims cover…
Union home minister Amit Shah (File photo) NEW DELHI: The government will on Wednesday introduce three bills in Parliament to provide a legal framework for the removal of prime minister, a Union minister, chief minister, or a minister in a state/Union territory if they are arrested or detained on serious criminal charges.According to PTI, the…
Wang Yi and Ajit Doval NEW DELHI: In a major breakthrough in India-China relations on Tuesday, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi co-chaired the 24th round of the Special Representatives’ talks on the boundary issue to explore “early harvest” in border areas.The talks focused on long-standing border issues, where both…
NEW DELHI: The Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) on Tuesday said that it will issue a showcause notice to the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), citing violation of its grant-in-aid rules over release of misleading election data. It stated, “It has come to the notice of ICSSR that an individual…
Arvind Kejriwal decided to support Sudershan Reddy’s candidature: Sanjay Singh NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh on Tuesday said that retired Supreme Court judge B Sudershan Reddy is the joint candidate of opposition parties for the upcoming Vice Presidential elections and confirmed AAP’s support for his candidature.“Understand this first that…
AMBALA: The district police and administrative authorities have rescued 22 men from an illegal drug de-addiction centre being run in Langar Chhanni village in Saha area of Ambala district on Monday. The rescued persons were taken to civil hospital in Ambala Cantonment, from where 17 were handed over to their family members on Monday night…
NEW DELHI: The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has rolled out two special supplementary modules on Operation Sindoor for Classes III to XII, presenting the mission as not just a military response but also a pledge to safeguard peace and honour the victims of the Pahalgam terror attack. The material has been…
NEW DELHI: Over 400 passengers got stranded for over three hours after a monorail broke down between two stations in Mumbai amid torrential rains.According to officials, all the passengers were rescued after the rescue operations were immediately deployed and teams from the BMC, the fire department and the police worked to evacuate passengers safely.Video footage…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday received an invitation for the upcoming SCO Summit in Tianjin from Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi, who conveyed it on behalf of President Xi Jinping during their meeting at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg.PM Modi accepted the invitation, thanked President Xi, and highlighted the importance of the summit….
