Jammu: On the eve of the counting of votes for the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls, top leaders of the Congress-NC alliance, the BJP and the PDP have expressed confidence in forming the next government in the Union Territory. While the Congress and the National Conference, who formed a pre-poll alliance, claimed they would cross […]
New Delhi: Legal experts have divergent views on whether Jammu and Kashmir lieutenant governor can nominate five MLAs at the time of government formation or at a later stage on the aid and advice of the council of ministers. Jammu and Kashmir has 90 assembly seats for which elections were held in three phases and […]
New Delhi: A plea was on Monday filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions to the Centre for the restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir within two months. On December 11, 2023, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the 2019 revocation of Article 370 of the Constitution that gave special status to the erstwhile state […]
Srinagar: National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Monday said External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar visiting Pakistan for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meeting is a “good step” and hoped that the ties between the two countries will improve. India on Friday announced that Jaishankar will travel to Pakistan to attend a conclave of the SCO. Pakistan […]
SYDNEY: War-weary and angry, hundreds of thousands of Israelis are taking to the streets week after week, calling for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cut a deal and bring the remaining hostages from the October 7 Hamas attack home. Their calls remain unanswered. These massive public demonstrations, including the largest nationwide strike in 18 months, […]
TEHRAN: The chief commander of the Iranian Army says the Islamic Republic will give a “stronger and more destructive” response to Israel if it makes the mistake of reacting to Iran’s recent retaliatory operation against the regime. Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi made the remarks on Sunday, five days after Iran launched hundreds of missiles toward […]
WASHINGTON: Kamala Harris, the US vice president and Democratic presidential nominee, addressed the country’s relationship with Israel during an interview set to air in full on Monday. She reiterated that Washington will continue to pressure Israel and other players in the Middle East to reach a ceasefire deal in Gaza even as advocates say that […]
NEW DELHI: The University Grants Commission (UGC) is set to award ten ‘PhD Excellence Citations’ every year, in an effort to recognise “high quality PhD work among young research scholars.” The citations will be given from next year onwards, and they are set to recognize “outstanding doctoral research,” according to UGC Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar. […]
NEW DELHI: The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their groundbreaking discovery of microRNA, a fundamental mechanism of gene regulation. This discovery has revolutionised our understanding of how genes are controlled and expressed in living organisms. Ambros and Ruvkun’s work unveiled a new class […]
NEW DELHI: Terming Naxals the biggest human rights violators, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said security forces have been carrying out “offensive operations” instead of defensive against the insurgents and have achieved big successes in recent times. Addressing chief ministers and top officials of the Naxal-affected states, Shah also said that all Left […]