- Monday, May 20, 2024
KASHMIR'S main mosque re-opened for prayers Wednesday for the first time since the restive valley's semi-autonomous status was axed by New Delhi in August and a curfew imposed. The area where the Jamia Masjid in Kashmir's main city of Srinagar is located is a hotbed of anti-Indian sentiment, with Friday…
Delhi recorded the coldest morning of the season on Wednesday, with the minimum temperature settling at seven degrees Celsius, a notch below the season's average. The relative humidity was recorded at 90 per cent. The weatherman has forecast a partly cloudy sky with severe cold wave in the national capital…
NO fresh incident of violence over amended citizenship law was reported in West Bengal on Wednesday morning, police said. However, a senior police officer and two other personnel were injured when a group of agitators hurled crude bombs at them in Sankrail area of Howrah district on Tuesday night. Howrah…
Normalcy returned in Guwahati while the curfew imposed in Dibrugarh was relaxed for 14 hours since 6 am on Wednesday. The curfew imposed in Guwahati, the gateway to the Northeast, on December 11 in the wake of protests against the citizenship law was lifted on Tuesday following improvement in law…
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh visited Naval Air Station base at Norfolk in the US during which he observed a static display and a Boeing fighter jet demonstration and hoped that the "strong defence ties" between the two countries will further strengthen in the near future. Singh, along with External Affairs…
A LOCKDOWN in Kashmir has cost its economy more than $2.4 billion since the government stripped it of its special status, officials of the Himalayan region's main trade organisation said on Wednesday (18). "In the last 120 days we have witnessed how each and every sector has bled ... we fear this…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to examine the constitutional validity of the amended Citizenship Act, but refused to stay its operation. The Act provides Indian citizenship rights to non-Muslim migrants of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. The top court issued notice to the Centre on a batch of pleas challenging…
THE Supreme Court Wednesday dismissed the plea filed by one of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, seeking review of its 2017 judgement upholding his death penalty. A three-judge bench headed by Justice R Banumathi said there are no ground to review the 2017 verdict…
THE CPI(M) on Wednesday denied allegations that it had supported the Citizenship Amendment Bill and said that at no time did the party demand exclusion of Muslim migrants from being considered for citizenship. BJP has been citing the letter written by Prakash Karat, the then General Secretary of the Party,…
Blaming porn sites for the rising incidents of sexual crime against women, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to ban all "porn sites and inappropriate content" available online. In the letter, Kumar expressed his "pain and serious concern" over the increasing number…
