SRINAGAR: Soldiers shot dead two infiltrators attempting to cross the LoC in Keran sector of J&K’s Kupwara, about 140km north of Srinagar, the Army said Saturday. The gunfight, part of “Op Pimple”, followed specific intelligence on an infiltration attempt Friday evening. Troops detected “suspicious activity”, challenged the group and came under “indiscriminate fire”, the Army…
The VVPAT slips were discovered near a college NEW DELHI: The Election Commission (EC) on Saturday asserted that the integrity of the polling process remains “uncompromised” after a large number of VVPAT slips were found dumped by the roadside in Bihar’s Samastipur district.Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar clarified that the slips were from mock…
Parliament of India (Image credit: DD news) NEW DELHI: The winter session of Parliament is scheduled to commence on December 1 and will continue until December 19, parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju announced on Saturday.Rijiju in a post on X said, “The President of India, Droupadi Murmu ji, has approved the proposal of the Government…
NEW DELHI: Operations at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport have returned to normal, the airport authority said on Saturday, a day after a technical glitch in the Air Traffic Control (ATC) flight planning process caused widespread delays across more than 800 flights, while some others were cancelled. In an advisory issued at 11:55 hours,…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Sashi Tharoor on Saturday took a swipe at the depleting air quality of Delhi-NCR, sharing a social media post from six years back.Tharoor shared an image which said, “Kab tak zindagi kaatoge cigarette bidi aur Cigar mein? Kuch din to guzaro Delh_NCR mein. (How long will you spend your life on…
NEW DELHI: Security forces on Saturday thwarted an infiltration bid along after launching a joint operation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara.Army’s White Chinar Corps, in a social media post on X, said that “Operation Pimple” was launched on November 7 after receiving specific inputs. It further said that the terrorists were trapped after contact was…
NEW DELHI: Noting that India continues to report one of the world’s highest rabies-related mortality rates and there has been an alarming increase in dog-bite incidents, making public places unsafe, Supreme Court Friday directed that stray dogs be removed from premises of educational institutions, hospitals, sports complexes, bus stands and depots, and railway stations. The…
NEW DELHI: Unsuccessful in stalling the SIR of Bihar electoral roll, the counsel for petitioners on Friday chose to argue the constitutional validity of Election Commission’s decision to conduct a pan-India SIR and told SC that the challenge to the validity of CEC and other ECs (Appointment, Conditions of Officer and Terms of Office) Act,…
The hospital will serve as a lifeline for five southern talukas of Gadchiroli where patients earlier had to travel long distances to Chandrapur or Nagpur for advanced maternity care NAGPUR: Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis will inaugurate Saturday a 100-bed women’s and child hospital at Aheri in southern Gadchiroli, marking a major milestone in public health…
RAIPUR: Mourners laying to rest a 60-year-old farmer, allegedly trampled to death by wild elephants less than 24 hours earlier, were sent scurrying for cover by a herd that stormed the funeral, charged at the crowd and wrecked several vehicles in Chhattisgarh’s forested Jashpur district. While the mourners asserted it was the same herd, forest…