India

Heavy rains hit the southern parts of Gujarat in the past 24 hours resulting in the death of three people. Four fishermen are suspected to have drowned when their boat capsized off the coast of Gir Somnath on Saturday night, state disaster relief officials said. The first incident happened in […]

Restrictions continued in Srinagar and parts of Kashmir for a second consecutive day on Saturday. In the morning, police started announcing in parts of the city that restrictions had been re-imposed, asking people not to violate section 144 which has been in place since the special status of J&K was […]

Indian-American lawmaker Pramila Jayapal along with 13 other US Congressmen have urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address concerns over the human rights situation in Kashmir and lift the communications blackout. A statement, addressed to Prime Minister Modi, was issued jointly by Congressmen Gilbert R. Cisneros, Jr, Judy Chu, Pramila […]

Two suspected militants exchanged fire with security forces on Batote-Doda highway in Ramban district on Saturday morning. Two suspicious men tried to stop a civil vehicle on NH244 in Batote. However, the driver was alert and didn’t stop the vehicle. “At about 7:30 am, two suspicious individuals tried to stop […]

Indian railways’ plans of privatization of its routes in a bid to increase its revenue may include 50 origin destination routes. A meeting was held on Friday by the Railway Board—the apex body under ministry of railways, and Chief Operating managers of zonal railways to discuss Centre’s plans of plying […]

In the last nine years, 16 IAS officers have served Devikulam, a tourist destination in Idukki district, and none of them have completed their terms. No, it is not the cold clime, but ‘pressure’ which ejects most of them. Notorious for land-grabbers, the latest to get marching orders is young […]

The Maharashtra Police on Friday arrested three persons for allegedly possessing demonetised currency worth Rs one crore in Aurangabad’s Osmanpura area. Speaking to media persons, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Rahul Khade, said, “On a tip-off, we caught the three accused at a police checkpoint. They were in possession of […]

The US space agency NASA has been unable to locate or image Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram lander that lost contact with the ground station during its final descent, just 2.1 km above the lunar surface. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter had flown over the highlands between the craters Simpelius N and […]

State-run policy think-tank Niti Aayog has said India needed its own annual “agricultural outlook”, which refers to an economic forecasting system to assess demand and supply situations to avoid seasonal rise in prices of food items, such as onions. Ramesh Chand, the Niti Ayog member who oversees agriculture, said it […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani discussed bilateral relations and exchanged views on regional and global developments of mutual interest during their bilateral meeting in New York. Modi met Rouhani on the sidelines of the high-level 74th Session of the General Assembly on Thursday and discussed “bilateral […]

The lander of Chandrayaan-2 had a “hard landing” earlier this month before it lost contact with the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) has said. The American space agency released high-resolution images captured by its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) during its flyby of the […]

In the second such incident in two months, a 32-year-old woman and mother of two, was allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped by more than half a dozen men while returning home from a hospital in Agartala late Tuesday, Tripura Police officials said on Thursday. Police said they have arrested six people […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi walked US President Donald Trump through the history of Pakistan’s involvement in terrorism in Jammu& Kashmir after the latter asked him why Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan kept talking about genocide in the Kashmir Valley leading to a nuclear conflagration, people familiar with details of the […]

Pakistan has approached the UN security council committee with a request to let Lashkar-e-Taiba emir Hafiz Saeed to withdraw money for what Islamabad described as “necessary basic living expenses”. Saeed, chief of UN-designated terrorist organisation Jammat–ud-Dawa was banned in December 2008 by the United Nations Security Council after the 26/11 Mumbai attacks […]

The Supreme Court on Thursday once again stressed on the need to complete arguments in the Ayodhya land dispute case by October 18. “If arguments can’t get over by October 18, there won’t be extra day,” Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi told both sides arguing the case. The CJI said the […]