Tourists enjoy in the snow at south portal of Atal Tunnel in Himachal’s Rohtang. In the past 24 hours, minimum night temperatures were below 0°C at some places in the state and Jammu and Kashmir NEW DELHI: Cold wave to severe cold wave conditions are very likely to continue in Delhi, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal…
JAMMU: Security forces picked up movement of suspected drones in several forward areas along the International Border (IB) and Line of Control (LoC) in Samba, Rajouri and Poonch districts of J&K on Sunday evening, officials said. All flying objects came from the Pakistan side, and returned after hovering over Indian territory for a few minutes,…
A new audio recording purportedly featuring Maulana Masood Azhar, the elusive chief of terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), has surfaced on social media, boasting that his organisation now commands “thousands” of suicide bombers who are prepared for immediate deployment. The clip has surfaced at a time when Pahalgam attack mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba deputy chief Saifullah Kasuri…
PM Modi at Somnath temple in Gujarat’s Gir Somnath district on Sunday AHMEDABAD/RAJKOT: India must remain vigilant against “merchants of appeasement” who are still active and hatching conspiracies to divide the country, PM Modi said Sunday while projecting Gujarat’s ancient Somnath temple as a model of resistance to what he termed “religious terrorism”. PM Modi…
With both the ED and Bengal government expected to head to Supreme Court on Monday on the I-PAC issue, ED officers present during the Jan 8 searches at I-PAC’s Salt Lake office and the political consultancy firm’s director’s Loudon Street home are likely to fall within the ambit of the probe. An agency report stated…
NEW DELHI: The conservation of centrally protected Archaeological Survey of India monuments will be opened up soon to the private sector by allowing corporate donors contributing to the ‘National Cultural Fund (NCF)’ to pick up a heritage conservation architect of their choice from an empanelled pool that will be notified by end of this month…
PILIBHIT: A 35-year-old woman was dragged into a sugarcane field by a big cat while she was collecting fodder in Maharaj Nagar village of Lakhimpur Kheri district on Saturday evening. Her half-eaten body was found on Sunday morning by a team of forest personnel from Nighasan forest range under North Kheri forest division, reports Keshav…
KANPUR: The Kanpur Dehat police in UP have claimed to have busted an alleged religious conversion racket in Akbarpur, arresting three people, including a woman, on charges of converting people from the scheduled castes by offering them incentives. The police are now investigating the interstate network and possible foreign funding links. Police said there were…
LUCKNOW/AYODHYA: Intelligence agencies on Saturday evening cleared a 55-year-old man from Jammu and Kashmir who was detained inside the Ram Janmabhoomi complex after he was allegedly found attempting to offer namaz near a restricted area. The man was let off after several hours of questioning and verification of antecedents, officials said, report Pathikrit Chakraborty &…
NEW DELHI: BJP on Sunday dismissed West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee‘s contention that her dramatic intervention in the ED raids at I-PAC premises in Kolkata was in her capacity as TMC president, and suggested that her compulsion to remove evidence linking “coal scam” proceeds to her party might be the real reason. BJP Lok Sabha…