Six militants of the Al Qaeda-affiliate Zakir Musa's group Ansar Ghazwatul Hind, including its Kashmiri deputy, were killed on Saturday in a gunfight with the security forces in Tral area of Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, the Defence Ministry said. ...
It was a cold, foggy morning in the national capital on Saturday with minimum temperature dropping to 4 degrees Celsius, four notches below average and air quality remaining 'severe', the Met said. At 8.30 a.m., visibility was at 600 metres and humidity was 97 per cent -- a condition nor favourable for dispersal of pollutants in the air. ...
A severe cold wave lashed Kashmir Valley and the Ladakh region on Saturday as Leh recorded minus 15.8 degrees Celius and the Met forecast no change in conditions for at least the next five days till Thursday. "For the next five days we are not expecting any change in weather. The cold ...
With funding for roughly a quarter of the US government, including appropriations for the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice expiring at midnight, a partial shutdown of the federal administration began on Saturday after the Congress and the White House failed to reach a deal....
Twelve years after the sensational killing of Sohrabuddin Shaikh, his associate Tulsiram Prajapati and rape-cum-murder of Kausar Bi, a Special CBI Court here on Friday acquitted all 22 accused in the politically sensitive case, saying "witnesses and proofs provided were not satisfactory"....
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) offices will be closed on Monday, Dec. 24. President Trump declared that all federal departments and agencies are closed and all employees are excused from duty on that day....
Reiterating the Congress demand, senior party leader P Chidambaram on Friday said the next Parliament would constitute a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to inquire into the controversial Rafale deal the NDA government had signed with the French aerospace major Dassault Aviation in 2016....
Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das on Friday announced 'Mukhyamantri Krishi Ashirwad Yojna' (MKAY) by which the state government would offer Rs 5,000 per acre of land to farmers for the kharif crops. ...
A day after vowing to bring a resolution for autonomy in Jammu and Kashmir if his party is voted to power with a majority, National Conference Chief Farooq Abdullah on Friday said regional autonomy is necessary in the state as the nature of the regions drastically differs from one another. ...
Bollywood actor Naseeruddin Shah on Friday gave the Ajmer Literature Festival a miss due to strong protests by the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha and other right wing associations for his controversial statements. ...
