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…
NEW DELHI: Son of a Ahmadabad plane crash victim has moved US federal court against aircraft manufacturing company Boeing and sought “raw details of information from the black-box.“Hir Prajapati, son of victim Kalpana Ben Prajapati said that he filed the suit in US for an early verdict and cases in India get dragged for years.“We…
TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh sent a legal notice to the father of the RG Kar rape and murder victim, after being accused of paying CBI to “settle” the case.“Despite my sympathies and respect for the victim’s father, I have sent him my lawyer’s notice. He should hopefully receive it by tomorrow or day after,” Ghosh…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court’s directive to remove all stray dogs from Delhi-NCR localities and relocate them to shelters within eight weeks has triggered a sharp divide across the region, with supporters welcoming the move for public safety reasons while opponents warn of cruelty and impracticality.Supporters cite public safety and rising dog attacksResident Welfare Associations…
Priyanka Kakkar (File photo/ANI) Amid the row erupted over Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s “vote theft” allegations, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Priyanka Kakkar on Tuesday alleged that a “massive vote theft scam” is currently underway in the country and accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of “stealing votes” during the February 2025 Delhi Assembly elections.Kakkar…
