[ad_1] RUDRAPUR: The body of a 14-year-old girl with a broken hand and bearing multiple stab wounds was found lying in a sugarcane field, 150m from her home in a village in Uttarakhand’s Udham Singh Nagar district Tuesday. The accused, a 20-year-old from the same village, was arrested Wednesday. According to police, the Class 8…
[ad_1] KULLU/DEHRADUN: This monsoon, from Kullu to Kalimpong, Kishtwar to Karnaprayag, landslides, flash floods and ground subsidence sharpened the focus on how India’s expanding network of highways, tunnels, ropeways and hydropower dams is affecting the fragile Himalayan terrain. While officials insist these were natural calamities, a growing number of residents, scientists and campaigners point to…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Terming it a “publicity interest litigation”, Supreme Court Tuesday dismissed a plea seeking directions to reconstruct and reinstall a seven-foot idol of Lord Vishnu at the Javari Temple, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Khajuraho temple complex in Madhya Pradesh.A bench headed by Chief Justice B R Gavai and Justice K Vinod…
[ad_1] DHAR: A “tearful” Jaish-e-Muhammed (JeM) commander’s rant in public about the price his outfit had to pay for being Islamabad’s proxy against India is further proof of “Indian soldiers bringing Pakistan to its knees in the blink of an eye” during Operation Sindoor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday, alluding to an undated…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Jaish-e-Muhammed (JeM) commander Ilyas Kashmiri has revealed that it was Pakistan army chief Asim Munir, who had ordered top army officers to attend the funeral of terrorists killed in India’s Operation Sindoor.“GHQ ordered the martyrs to be honoured and given the last salute. Corps commanders were asked to accompany the janaza (funeral…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Pope Leo XIV blessed Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his 75th birthday during a Papal Audience at St Peter’s Square in Vatican City on Wednesday. The Pope prayed for Modi’s good health and long life as around 30,000 people gathered for the weekly event.The Papal Audience is a special gathering where the…
[ad_1] SRINAGAR: After a 20-day closure, the Srinagar-Jammu national highway (NH-44) reopened for traffic Wednesday, enabling hundreds of trucks to move towards Jammu. The day saw only “down” traffic — movement from Kashmir towards Jammu — as vehicles are allowed to ply on each route every alternate day.National Conference president Dr Farooq Abdullah, meanwhile, dismissed…
[ad_1] SRINAGAR: J&K separatist leader, academic and former chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Prof Abdul Gani Bhat died Wednesday evening at his home in north Kashmir’s Sopore. He was 89.Born in 1935 in Sopore, Bhat studied Persian, economics and political science at Srinagar’s Sri Pratap College before earning a postgraduate degree in Persian…
[ad_1] JAMMU: Residents of a Bobiya, a forward village near the international border in Hiranagar sector of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district, found a rusty mortar shell in an open field on Wednesday and alerted local police.Cops rushed to the spot, cordoned off the area and informed the Bomb Disposal Squad, which sent a team…
[ad_1] Dubai’s iconic Burj Khalifa was illuminated with images of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the occasion of his 75th birthday on Wednesday. The world’s tallest building was lit up in the saffron, white, and green colours of the Indian flag.Earlier in the day, UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan had wished Modi…