NEW DELHI: Amid Poland’s efforts to step up ties with Pakistan, external affairs minister S Jaishankar told his visiting Polish counterpart Radoslaw Sikorski that Poland should display zero-tolerance for terrorism instead of fuelling the terrorist infrastructure in India’s neighbourhood.Warsaw has been looking to expand its trade, defence and energy ties with Pakistan and Sikorski visited…
NEW DELHI: For the last few elections in West Bengal, there are instances of hundreds of voters who have recorded a single person as their father. In the 2025 electoral list, in assembly constituency number 283 (Barabani in Asansol district), a person has been registered as father of 389 voters, Election Commission told Supreme Court…
NEW DELHI: To boost maritime engagement with Southeast Asian nations, Indian Navy’s First Training Squadron, comprising INS Tir, INS Shardul, INS Sujata and Indian Coast Guard Ship Sarathi, reached Singapore’s Changi naval base on Jan 15. The squadron is on a training deployment to the South East Indian Ocean Region (IOR).The visit underscores the importance…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday found transactions between two real estate majors – Jaiprakash Associates and Gaursons Mega Projects (GMP) – to be dubious and said officials of Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) were “hand in glove” in the matter.The court was hearing YEIDA’s plea challenging an Allahabad high court order annulling its…
NEW DELHI: Three months after bringing four traditionally high-emission sectors such as aluminium, cement, chlor-alkali and pulp & paper into targeted greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensity reduction regime, Centre has included four more sectors — petroleum refinery, petrochemicals, textiles and secondary aluminium – in its ambit to help meet specific reduction targets by 2026-27 compared…
SRINAGAR: Hundreds of people, including women, carrying placards of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei marched through Leh on Monday to express solidarity with the Islamic Republic of Iran and accused the US and Israel of conspiring against the country.The protest was organised by Anjuman Imamia Leh, an influential Shia organisation in the region.The demonstrators…
SRINAGAR/JAMMU: National Conference president and former J&K CM Farooq Abdullah said Monday that nobody is stopping Kashmiri Pandits from returning to Kashmir valley, but said he doubts most would come back to live permanently, triggering sharp criticism from BJP politicians as Pandit groups blocked the Jammu–Srinagar highway seeking a separate homeland.“When are they going back?…
SRINAGAR: The Omar Abdullah govt on Monday came down heavily on demands for granting statehood to Jammu and its separation from Kashmir, terming it a “Pakistani and ISI agenda”.Alleging that those pitching for Jammu to be made a separate state were “playing into Pakistan’s hands”, deputy chief minister Surinder Choudhary said such people “cannot be…
JAMMU: Havildar Gajendra Singh of Army’s Special Forces died Monday after suffering grenade splinter and bullet wounds during an overnight gun battle with terrorists in the mountains of Kishtwar district in J&K, marking the first security force death in a counterterrorism operation in the Union territory in 2026.Singh, an Uttarakhand native, was among eight soldiers…
SRINAGAR: IMD’s forecast of snowfall in Kashmir from Thursday has held out much hope for the end of a prolonged dry spell in the region.Srinagar branch of IMD on Monday also warned “landslides, mudslides, and gusty winds at vulnerable places” may disrupt air and surface transport, including Jammu-Srinagar NH and other major roads in the…