Pakistan violates ceasefire along LoC in Poonch district
Poonch/Jammu: Pakistan today violated ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, by resorting to firing on forward posts. The firing from across the border in Debraj, Krishna Ghati and Ishapur in Mendhar sector started around 10.30 am, prompting retaliation by Indian troops guarding the border, a police official More...
Sanitisation process of Dera headquarters at Sirsa underway
Sirsa: A mammoth exercise to carry out “sanitisation” of the sprawling Dera Sacha Sauda sect headquarters was underway here today with security forces and various government departments coordinating More...
Journalist silenced: Amnesty flags concern over free speech
New Delhi: The killing of journalist Gauri Lankesh by gunmen outside her residence in Bengaluru “raises alarm” about the state of freedom of expression in the country, Amnesty International India said More...
Sitharaman gets Defence, Goyal made Railways Minister
The President, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, the Vice President, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu and the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi with the newly inducted Ministers after a Swearing-in Ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in More...
Clashes between youths, security forces after Eid prayers: J-K
Srinagar: Clashes broke out between groups of youths and security forces at few places in Kashmir valley after Eid prayers today, police said. Clashes were reported from Srinagar, Anantnag and Sopore in the valley More...
Situation much under control: BMC chief on Mumbai Floods
Mumbai (Maharashtra): A day after heavy rains and severe flooding in Mumbai after parts of the city received as much as 300 mm of rainfall, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Commissioner Ajoy Mehta on Wednesday More...
290 children died at BRD Medical College this August: Official
Gorakhpur (UP): A total of 290 children have died in the Baba Raghav Das Medical College here in the month of August, of which 213 died in the neo natal ICU and 77 in the encephalitis ward, principal P K Singh More...
India, China agree on process of ‘disengagement’ in Doklam
New Delhi : India and China have agreed to end their over two-month-long stand-off in the Doklam Plateau by reaching an understanding not to let their long standing differences become disputes. “In recent More...
Ram Rahim sentencing: Barricades, paramilitary forces stationed 3 km from Sunaria Jail
Rohtak (Haryana) : The Special Forces and the police are at alert and barricades have been put at about three kilometers from the jail where Dera Sacha Sauda chiefGurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is locked up, ahead More...
Justice Dipak Misra is new CJI
New Delhi: Justice Dipak Misra, who was part of the bench that confirmed the death sentence of the four convicts in the December 16 gangrape case and passed the order for mandatory singing of the national anthem More...