Dehradun: The body of Ankita Bhandari who worked in an Uttarakhand resort was recovered from a canal on Saturday, police said as the ruling BJP swung into action to expel its leader whose son, the main accused, owned the property and the administration began demolishing the structure. Outrage over the killing of the 19-year-old, who […]
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has restrained the Deputy Conservator of Forests (DCF) from taking any coercive action against the vice principal of a government school here who was fined Rs 4.2 lakh and directed to plant 50 trees for allegedly cutting or pruning eight dry trees inside the school campus. The petitioner, who […]
Says Hurriyat used to play ‘bloody game’ in Kashmir on behalf of mentors across Srinagar: J&K Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbagh Singh on Friday said that a lot has been done to wipe out anti-peace elements, including militants, and it won’t take much time to clear off the remaining ones. Talking to reporters on […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to list after Dussehra vacation the pleas challenging the Centre’s decision to abrogate provisions of Article 370 which had given special status to Jammu and Kashmir. A bench comprising Chief Justice Uday Umesh Lalit and justices Indira Banerjee and S Ravindra Bhat took note of the submissions […]
TEHRAN: Iranian state television suggested that the death toll of protests over the death of a 22-year-old woman in police custody has risen to over two dozen, without providing more information as the unrest continues. An anchor on Iran’s state television suggested the death toll from the mass protests could be as high as 26 […]
Jammu: The Aam Admi Party on Friday terminated former legislator Balwant Singh Mankotia from the party for anti-party activities, AAP election in-charge said on Friday. Mankotia, who was president of the Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) before joining AAP in April, has hit out at AAP for deceiving people and said he is […]
Purnea: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday flayed former ally Nitish Kumar, accusing the Bihar chief minister of backstabbing the BJP and trying to fulfil prime ministerial ambitions while sitting in the laps of Congress and RJD . At a rally held in this north Bihar town, Shah asserted that the jodi of Kumar […]
Udhampur: At least four persons including three sisters died after drowning in a Nallah at Chetredi village of Tehsil Ramnagar in Udhampur district on Friday, an official said. An official said that at about 1430 hrs, an information was received that four people including three sisters who had gone for grazing and fetching water to […]
Jammu: Dressed to the nines, residents of Jammu on Friday took out parades across the city to celebrate the birth anniversary of Maharaja Hari Singh, the last Dogra ruler of Jammu and Kashmir. The Lieutenant Governor administration had recently declared the birth anniversary of Maharaja Hari Singh, which falls on September 23, as an annual […]
Srinagar: A cross-sectional study aimed to assess the prevalence of anxiety, depression, post traumatic stress disorder and obsessive compulsive (OC) symptoms among COVID-19 survivors in Kashmir has confirmed the presence of these symptoms among them. The Department of Psychiatry, Government Medical College Srinagar, under Dr Shabir Ahmad Dar and others, and the Institute of Mental […]