New Delhi: After successful completion of General Election to the 18th Lok Sabha, the Election Commission of India has initiated the preparations for forthcoming State Assembly Elections in the States of Haryana, Maharashtra and Jharkhand with updation of the electoral rolls in these states w.r.t. July 1, 2024 as the qualifying date. The term of […]
Srinagar: As plains across the country are facing a heat wave, the upper reaches in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district received a few inches of snow. Kashmir Valley was lashed by rain on Friday, bringing down the temperature, officials said. Peer Ki Gali, connecting Shopian district of south Kashmir with the twin districts of Poonch […]
Jammu: Special Director General BSF (Western Command), Chandigarh, Y B Khurania, reviewed the security scenario at the Jammu international border during his two-day visit to the frontier that ended on Friday. He was received by IG DK Boora and other senior officers of the Jammu Frontier. IG BSF gave a detailed presentation to the SDG […]
New Delhi: A Delhi court is likely to hear on Saturday further arguments on an application filed by Engineer Rashid, arrested in a 2016 Jammu and Kashmir terror funding case, seeking interim bail to take oath as an MP. Contesting as an independent candidate, Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, defeated former Chief […]
NEW DELHI: CSIR UGC-NET examination postponed due to ‘unavoidable circumstances’ and ‘logistical issues’, the National Testing Agency (NTA) announced on Friday. The notification stated: “The candidates are hereby informed that the Joint CSIR-UGC-NET Examination June-2024 which was scheduled to be held between 25.06.2024 to 27.06.2024 is being postponed due to unavoidable circumstances as well as […]
New Delhi: Ninety-eight Indians have died during the annual Muslim pilgrimage of Haj to Mecca, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Friday. MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said total deaths of Indians in the entire Haj period last year were 187. “This year, 1,75000 Indian pilgrims visited Mecca for Haj. The Haj period is […]
NEW DELHI: It is strange police were restrained by a court from arresting former Karnataka chief minister B S Yediyurappa, while Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and former Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren — both arrested in separate cases — were being treated like any “Tom, Dick or Harry”, Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal said Friday. Earlier […]
NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s wife Sunita Kejriwal on Friday hit out at the Enforcement Directorate after the federal agency challenged the AAP supremo’s bail order in the High Court. She said the way the probe agency was acting in the case was as if the chief minister was the “most wanted terrorist […]
NEW DELHI: India ranks third in the growth rate of women researchers, according to a report from scientific information disseminator Elsevier, which also underlined that gender equality in the domain remains “unacceptably far away” globally. At two per cent, India’s yearly growth rate of women’s share of active researchers over the last decade was the […]
NEW DELHI: With just nine days left for the three new criminal laws to come into force in India, the West Bengal Chief Minister has urged the Prime Minister to postpone their implementation for now. Sources in the state secretariat Nabanna said the process of updating the curriculum at police training schools was yet to […]