NEW DELHI: Hate-monger Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on Monday issued an ominous warning that an Air India plane could be attacked ahead of the 40th anniversary of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.“An attack could occur on an Air India flight” between November 1-19, said the terrorist, a US citizen, who has been on India’s “most-wanted”…
NEW DELHI: National University of Singapore (NUS) will explore collaborations with Indian higher education institutions in areas such as joint and dual degree programmes as well as academic and research initiatives, Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan said during his visit to the country on Monday. He also met Singapore PM Lawrence Wong.According to senior education…
NEW DELHI: The road transport ministry had sought time from PM Modi for opening the 6.4 km Z-Morh tunnel on Srinagar-Leh highway as it was ready for inauguration. However, Sunday’s terrorist attack on the camp office of the tunnel contractor has prompted government to raise security for the project.The tunnel, which will ensure all-weather connectivity…
Security personnel check vehicles on Srinagar-Ladakh highway NEW DELHI: Concerned that Sunday’s terror attack targeting employees of an infrastructure project in Jammu & Kashmir’s Ganderbal may affect the confidence level of major infrastructure companies executing projects in the UT, LG Manoj Sinha on Monday ordered beefing up of security forces’ presence in residential areas of…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi Monday asserted that India does not believe in being “taken-for-granted” in international relations, and that the world is realising trust and reliability alone make the foundation for good ties with the country. His remarks come at a time when Canadian PM Justin Trudeau‘s brinkmanship has pushed bilateral ties into a…
With both counties having overlapping claims in the region, sources said ‘patrolling will be done in all areas’, with a frequency of twice a month. (PTI) NEW DELHI: The India-China agreement on troop “patrolling arrangements” along the LAC, which will lead to disengagement at the remaining major faceoffs at Depsang and Demchok in Ladakh, will…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday trashed a fresh attempt to equate ‘Hindutva‘ with fundamentalism by outrightly rejecting a PIL by a 65-year-old doctor seeking to get the term, which he claimed was inimical to secular fabric, replaced with ‘Bhartiya Samvidhanatva‘.This was the third challenge in SC to “Hindutva” since 1994 when the apex court,…
NEW DELHI: “They (ED officers) should remember that there is something called Article 21 in the country (which guarantees right to life and liberty),” Supreme Court on Monday told the agency while expressing concern over the way in which PMLA was being implemented and made it clear that any high-handedness against any accused in violation…
SRINAGAR: J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah has retained Ganderbal seat and resigned from Budgam after having won from both in the recent assembly polls. Protem Speaker Mubarak Gul made the announcement Monday while administering oaths to the 90 newly elected MLAs, including Omar.Sources Omar’s move to give up Budgam would necessitate a bypoll, with Omar’s…
SRINAGAR/JAMMU: Amid grief and disbelief, two families — one from Kashmir’s Budgam district and the other from Jammu — find themselves bound by an unimaginable tragedy. What was meant to be a festive time of Karva Chauth for architectural designer Shashi Bhushan Abrol’s wife and children, and a hopeful return to routine life for Dr…
