Srinagar: Congress leader Karan Singh Wednesday said a clear and sharp political divide between the two regions of Jammu and Kashmir would be a challenge for the new government to overcome. In a statement, Singh said it is a matter of great satisfaction that after ten long years free and fair elections were held in […]
Jammu: The BJP, which was hoping to capitalise on the Centre’s decision granting reservation to Gujjars and Paharis in the Pir Panchal region, failed to make much impact in eight assembly constituencies in the border region covering Rajouri and Poonch districts. The party managed to win only Hindu-majority Kalakote seat in Rajouri district, one seat […]
New Delhi: Veteran Congress leader and former Jammu and Kashmir governor Karan Singh on Wednesday expressed great satisfaction over the conduct of “free and fair” assembly elections and asserted that the next logical step is to restore full statehood to J-K. He also demanded that domiciliary provisions should be introduced in J-K on the lines […]
New Delhi: The restoration of statehood from the status of union territory (UT) in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) by the Centre in future will not affect the status of new legislative assembly, legal experts said on Wednesday. In response to a query over the impact on the newly-elected J&K legislative assembly if the Centre decided […]
TEL AVIV: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that the country’s forces have successfully targeted and eliminated potential successors to the recently deceased Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. In a video message released on Tuesday (local time), Netanyahu said, “We’ve degraded Hezbollah’s capabilities. We took out thousands of terrorists, including Nasrallah himself and Nasrallah’s replacement, […]
DEIR AL-BALAH, GAZA STRIP: A large-scale Israeli operation in northern Gaza has killed dozens of people and threatens to shut down three hospitals over a year into the war with Hamas, Palestinian officials and residents said Wednesday. Heavy fighting was underway in Jabaliya, where Israeli forces have carried out several major operations over the course […]
NEW DELHI: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has decided to keep the policy rate unchanged at 6.5 per cent with a majority vote of 5:1. Announcing the decision, Governor Shaktikanta Das said the MPC decided unanimously to change stance to neutral and remain unambiguously focussed on endurable alignment of inflation […]
BEIRUT: The escalation of violence and destruction along the Lebanon-Israel border will neither solve the core issues nor bring security to any relevant parties in the long run, United Nations officials said. It has been one year “since near-daily exchanges of fire commenced across the Blue Line,” in which “far too many lives have been […]
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Wednesday hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his attack on the party while virtually inaugurating development projects for Maharashtra, saying taxpayers’ money cannot and should not be used to indulge in a “political speech”. A day after the Congress’ defeat in the Haryana polls, Modi called the opposition […]
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved continuation of the universal supply of Fortified Rice under all schemes of the Government including Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) and Other Welfare Schemes in its present form, from July 2024 and up to December 2028. The rice fortification initiative […]