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JAMMU: Heavy rains and inclement weather prompted the administrations of J&K’s Rajouri, Reasi and Poonch districts to order the closure of all govt and private schools as a precaution on Tuesday. The Jammu-Srinagar national highway was hit by mudslides, and traffic was disrupted at Jagti, even as incessant showers since Monday night led to a…

LONDON: An Indian-heritage Labour peer has called for the statue of Clive of India outside the foreign office in London to be pulled down due to the role he played at the East India Company laying the groundwork for the British Raj.“I’m not sure that a statue of Clive should really have any place outside…

Representative image (ANI) JAMMU: The Samba district magistrate has ordered a night curfew in areas up to two km from the International Border (IB) to ensure better area domination by BSF and to foil any illegal activity close to the borderline.“The restriction will be in place daily from 10 pm to 5 am for the…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday hailed the US decision to designate the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and its suicide wing, the Majeed Brigade, as Foreign Terrorist Organisations (FTOs), a move seen as reinforcing Islamabad’s own counterterrorism efforts and signalling renewed security alignment between the two countries.The US state department had announced the designation on Monday, adding…

SRINAGAR: The 11-day-long anti-terror operation in the forests of south Kashmir’s Kulgam district was being wound up, with no contact having been established with terrorists in the past 48 hours, officials said Tuesday. “There has been no exchange of fire since Saturday,” a senior Army official confirmed.A senior police official said, “The operation has now…

SRINAGAR: J&K police’s Special Investigation Agency (SIA) conducted raids Tuesday at the residence of jailed Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Yasin Malik and seven other Srinagar locations over the murder of a Kashmiri Pandit woman hospital staffer by terrorists 35 years ago. The action in Sarla Bhatt’s murder case came a week after lieutenant-governor…

NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha on Monday passed a bill which seeks to provide a simpler regime for promoting conservation of minerals, zero waste mining and support the objectives of the National Critical Mineral Mission, given the significance of critical and strategic minerals in the development of the country.The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment…

NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill 2025 to further liberalise norms for investors and empower states with the aim of boosting exploration for critical and strategic minerals.The amendment Bill, introduced on August 11, was passed by voice vote amid Opposition din. Under the amended…

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and CPP Chairperson Sonia Gandhi cast their votes in the election for the President and Executive Committee of the Constitution Club of India, in New Delhi on Tuesday. (@NeerajDangiINC X/ANI Photo) Prominent leaders of different parties, including Union ministers Amit Shah and J P Nadda of the BJP and Sonia Gandhi…