Washington: US President Donald Trump has hit the right chord with India by standing up to China and never intervening in the Kashmir issue, officials of his presidential campaign have asserted. Seeking re-election for a second consecutive term, Trump, 74, is pitted against Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, 77, in the November 3 presidential elections. Before […]
Jammu: Police on Sunday took cognizance of a communally sensitive video doing rounds on social media and assured strict legal action against the accused persons. The police, however, refrained from sharing details of the video. “An incident involving video of communally sensitive nature, has gone viral on social media which seems to have been maliciously […]
New Delhi: The Centre will assist the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir to establish a public grievance portal in each of its 20 districts to ensure timely redressal of governance-related complaints, Union Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh said on Sunday. In a significant drive to strengthen the ongoing good governance initiatives there, […]
Katra : Khushvinder Singh is part of a 12-member group from Jammu who reached Katra before dawn to pay obeisance at the famous Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine atop Trikuta hills in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir. The shrine along with other religious places across the Union Territory reopened for devotees on Sunday morning after […]
New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved the proposal to expand the National Cadet Corps (NCC) in 173 border and coastal districts from where one lakh new cadets will be inducted, an official statement said on Sunday. The expansion of the NCC was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech […]
New Delhi: The condition of former president Pranab Mukherjee remained unchanged on Sunday and he continued to be on ventilator support, doctors attending to him said. They said his vital and clinical parameters are stable. The doctors at the Army’s Research and Referral Hospital in Delhi Cantonment said the health of the former president is […]
NEW DELHI: India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 25,89,682 with a single-day spike of 63,490 infections, while the total number of recoveries rose to 18,62,258 pushing the recovery rate to 71.91 per cent on Sunday, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The death toll due to coronavirus infection climbed to 49,980 with 944 people succumbing […]
BENGALURU: Veteran politician and former External Affairs Minister S M Krishna has called for a “complete and total” ban on corporate funding of polls, saying there is a need to end political corruption and cleanse the electoral system in the country. The root of administrative corruption lies in political corruption, and the root of political […]
NEW DELHI: Several members of the minority Muslim community from Shaheen Bagh area, that was the centre of the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests here, joined the BJP on Sunday in the presence of its Delhi unit leaders, said a party statement. The induction ceremony took place in the presence of president of the BJP’s […]
WASHINGTON: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden asserted that if elected, his administration will stand with New Delhi in confronting the threats it faces and called for strengthening the “bond” between India and the US. Presidential elections in the US will held on November 3 and the 77-yearold is challenging incumbent Republican President Donald Trump in […]