Srinagar Experiences Season’s Coldest Night

Srinagar Experiences Season’s Coldest Night

Kupwara, Qazigund Among Other Places Too Shiver In Lowest Temp This Winter Srinagar: Srinagar and few other weather stations in Kashmir experienced the coldest night of the season so far as the minimum temperature plunged several degrees below the freezing point at most places in the valley, officials said on Thursday. Srinagar recorded a low […]

BRO’s Efforts Keeps Zojila Pass Open Despite Heavy Snowfall: Officials

BRO’s Efforts Keeps Zojila Pass Open Despite Heavy Snowfall: Officials

Srinagar: The strategic Zojila pass on the Srinagar-Leh national highway, connecting the Kashmir valley with the Ladakh region, has remained open through December and January despite heavy snowfall due to the relentless efforts of the Border Roads Organisation, a defence spokesperson said on Thursday. BRO ‘Karmyogis’, with their relentless effort under ‘Project Beacon’, facilitated connectivity […]

Dhangri Killings: More VDCs Armed With Insas Being Set Up

Dhangri Killings: More VDCs Armed With Insas Being Set Up

1500 CRPF Personnel Deployed In Poonch, Rajouri Districts Srinagar: The government has decided to set up more Village Defence Committees (VDCs) and equip them with either SLR or Insas guns instead of present “outdated” 303 rifles even as fifteen companies of CRPF comprising 1,500 personnel have been deployed in twin border districts of Rajouri and […]

Ram Mandir to be ready by Jan 1: Amit Shah

Ram Mandir to be ready by Jan 1: Amit Shah

Sabroom (Tripura): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday announced the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya will be ready by January 1, 2024, the year the Lok Sabha elections will be held. This is being seen as an indication that Ram Mandir, a plank raked up by the saffron camp since 1990 when BJP leader L […]

Mehbooba questions arming locals

Mehbooba questions arming locals

Says Move Aimed To Create Wedge Between Communities Srinagar: The BJP government has failed to control the situation in Jammu and Kashmir and is now arming locals to further its agenda of creating a wedge between communities, People’s Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti said on Thursday. “Arming people with weapons will only serve the BJP’s […]

‘Eid’ In Haldwani As SC Stays demolition of their homes

Haldwani/Dehradun: People facing demolition of their homes in Haldwani’s Banbhoolpura hugged and shared sweets Thursday when they heard that the Supreme Court has stayed an Uttarakhand High Court to remove encroachments from 29 acres of railway land. The Supreme Court has sent notices to the state government and the Railways seeking their response to a […]

SC stays eviction of 4000 families from Railway land in Haldwani

SC stays eviction of 4000 families from Railway land in Haldwani

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday stayed an order passed by the Uttarakhand High Court to evict over 4,000 families living on “encroached” Railways land in Nainital’s Haldwani. A bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and A S Oka observed that the matter was a “human issue”, and that 50,000 people couldn’t be evicted in […]

11 states/ UTs join National Single Window System for vehicle scrapping

New Delhi: The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) on Wednesday said 11 states/UTs have been onboarded onto the National Single Window System (NSWS) for Voluntary Vehicle-Fleet Modernization Program (V-VMP) to attract private investment in the vehicle scrapping ecosystem. The ministry, in a statement, further said as on November 14, 2022, applications of 117 […]