PATIALA: Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Saturday met with the Olympic-bound Indian athletes and also inspected the progress of the new infrastructure which is coming up inside the Netaji Subhas National Institute of Sports (NSNIS). During his visit, Mandaviya met with weightlifter Mirabai Chanu, javelin thrower Annu Rani and shot putter Abha Khatua. “My conversation […]
WASHINGTON: Projected to last only days, the first crewed test flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft with two astronauts onboard faces uncertainty with no exact return to Earth announced. NASA’s Commercial Crew Program manager, Steve Stich has said that the US space agency is considering extending the duration of Starliner’s mission from 45 days to 90 […]
KATHUA/JAMMU: Stating that police are well-equipped with advanced weaponry including arms from Israel and Germany, DGP R R Swain on Friday said no war against a terror ecosystem can be won without the police. Pointing to a series of recent terror attacks in the Union Territory, the DGP said terrorists can neither defeat the force […]
Says Govt’s Quest To Address Security Concerns Should Not Be At Cost Of ‘Trampling’ Rights Srinagar: The Centre’s quest to address security concerns in Jammu and Kashmir should not come at the cost of “trampling constitutional rights and eroding” the very rule of law, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said on Friday. Her remarks came after […]
Bhadarwah/Jammu, Jun 28: A cloudburst on Friday caused flash floods in Thathri market of Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district, laying mudslides in several houses and the Batote-Kishtwar National Highway, leading to significant disruption in traffic. However, there have been no reports of injuries or fatalities so far, officials said. The cloudburst followed by flash floods […]
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate on Friday said it has attached a house located in Srinagar’s Bemina valued at Rs 1.5 crore as part of a money laundering investigation linked to alleged drugs trade being used to fund terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir. The action has been taken against the accused Abdul Momin Peer, […]
Kathua/Jammu: A few days after the encounter in the Hiranagar border area in which two terrorists were killed, nine Special Police Officers (SPOs) were regularized as constables in the police by the Director General of Police (DGP) R. R. Swain as a reward for their exceptional action. Swain announced that the village defence groups and […]
New Delhi: In an unusually hard-hitting response to criticism against it in a US government report on religious freedom, India on Friday described the findings as “deeply biased”, visibly driven by “votebank” considerations and a mix of imputations and selective usage of facts. Dismissing the report, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said it selectively […]
NEW DELHI: Deputy National Security Adviser (NSA) Vikram Misri was on Friday named as the next Foreign Secretary, according to an official order. Misri, a 1989 batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, has been appointed to the post with effect from July 15, it said. He will succeed Vinay Mohan Kwatra, who was in March […]
ATLANTA: Joe Biden, seeking a second term in the White House, stumbled in his first televised presidential debate with his predecessor Donald Trump, setting off alarm bells among top Democrats about whether the incumbent president can stay atop in the gruelling months ahead of the elections. During their roughly 90-minute debate defined by personal attacks […]