New Delhi: The Left parties on Monday hit out at the Union government over the killing of 14 civilians by security forces in Nagaland’s Mon district and demanded the repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act. Security forces opened fire on civilians killing 14 and injuring 11 more in Nagaland’s Mon district in three […]
New Delhi: As India and Bangladesh commemorate ‘Maitri Diwas’, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said he looks forward to continue working with his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina to further expand and deepen bilateral ties. ‘Maitri Diwas’ is being observed on Monday to mark India recognising the newly-formed country Bangladesh in 1971. “Today India and […]
NEW DELHI: The Army has 7,476 vacant posts of officers while the Navy and Air Force have 1,265 and 621 such vacancies, Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt said on Monday. In his written response to a question in Rajya Sabha, the minister also said that for “airmen, sailors, junior commissioned officers and other […]
Bangkok: A special court in Myanmar’s capital sentenced the country’s ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, to four years in prison on Monday after finding her guilty of incitement and violating coronavirus restrictions, a legal official said. The sentencing was the first in a series of cases in which the 76-year-old Nobel laureate is being […]
Srinagar: Many areas in the higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir received fresh snowfall on Sunday, while rains lashed the plains, ending the dry spell, officials said. The minimum temperature improved and stayed above the freezing point at most places in the valley on Saturday night, they said. Fresh snowfall was recorded at many places […]
Srinagar: National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Sunday said the people of Jammu and Kashmir may have to make “sacrifices”, as farmers protesting the new farm laws did, to restore its statehood and special status. Addressing a convention of the NC’s youth wing on the occasion of the 116th birth anniversary of party founder Sheikh […]
Jammu: Consistent erosion of Article 370 and denial of democracy alienated people in Jammu and Kashmir, CPI(M) leader M Y Tarigami said on Sunday. The former legislator was responding to Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s statement that although Article 370 was in place for decades, but there was no peace in Jammu and Kashmir. It […]
Kohima/Guwahati/New Delhi: Security forces opened fire on civilians killing 14 and injuring 11 more in Nagaland’s Mon district in three consecutive incidents of firing the first of which was possibly a case of mistaken identity, police said on Sunday. One soldier also died in rioting which followed. The first firing which killed six civilians, occurred […]
SRINAGAR: A total of 161 new Covid cases, 18 from Jammu division and 143 from Kashmir division, were reported on Sunday, along with 2 deaths reported from Kashmir Division. Also, 184 more COVID-19 patients were reported to have been recovered and discharged from various hospitals, including 34from Jammu Division and 150 from Kashmir Division. Providing […]
Jaipur/Mumbai/New Delhi: India reported 17 more cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 on Sunday, nine in Rajasthan’s capital Jaipur, seven in Maharashtra’s Pune district, and a 37-year-old fully vaccinated man who arrived in Delhi from Tanzania, taking the tally to 21 in the country. Most of those who tested positive either recently arrived from […]