The Indian Coast Guard and the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad have apprehended a Pakistani boat with nine crew members on board in the Arabian Sea near the state coast and seized heroin worth Rs 280 crore from the vessel, a defence spokesperson said on Monday.The Coast Guard ships intercepted and apprehended the Pakistani boat ‘Al Haj’ […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to travel to Europe from May 2 to May 6 to have bilateral meetings with re-elected French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz apart from addressing the key India-Nordic summit in Copenhagen. With Macron getting re-elected as French President for the second tern with a resounding vote, […]
Accusing Maharashtra’s ruling Aghadi coalition of orchestrating ‘attacks’ on state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Kirit Somaiya and Mohit Kamboj, state BJP chief Chandrakant Patil warned that his party workers, too, ‘will not remain silent’. “The attack on Kirit Somaiya was not just an attempt to threaten him but to kill him. It happened in […]
An explosion took place in an agriculture field on the outskirts of Jammu on Sunday with police suspecting that it was caused by a lightning strike or a meteorite.The blast was reported at Lalian village in Bishnan belt, they said. “We suspect it to be a meteorite…. might be lightning”, a police officer told PTI. […]
The CBSE has dropped chapters about the Non-Aligned Movement, the Cold War era, the rise of Islamic empires in Afro-Asian territories, the chronicles of Mughal courts and the industrial revolution from the history and political science syllabi of Classes 11 and 12.Similarly, in the Class 10 syllabus, the topic ‘Impact of globalisation on agriculture’ from […]
Days after criticising his own party, Gujarat Congress leader Hardik Patel has praised the ruling BJP for its “decision-making capacity” which, he said, is lacking in the leadership of the opposition party’s state unit.Stating that he is “proud to be a Hindu”, Patel, who is working president of the Congress’s state unit, denied speculation that […]
NIA chief Kuldiep Singh on Saturday visited Jammu’s Sunjwan area where two suicide bombers of banned Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) were killed in a fierce gunfight with security forces ahead of the prime minister’s visit, officials said.The National Investigation Agency (NIA) chief, who reached Jammu on Friday evening, was accompanied by Inspector General of CRPF, Jammu sector, […]
Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said all three defence services wanted the removal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act from Jammu and Kashmir soon, news agency ANI reported. The defence minister was speaking during the felicitation of 1971 war veterans at Guwahati in Assam. This is not the first time when Rajnath Singh has […]
Security arrangements have been strengthened ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Jammu and Kashmir’s Palli on Sunday. The Prime Minister is scheduled to address panchayats across the country on ‘Panchayati Raj Diwas’ tomorrow. Every year, April 24 is celebrated as the National Panchayati Raj Day.The Prime minister will address a gathering including more […]
The Jharkhand High Court on Friday granted bail to Rashtriya Janata Jal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad in the Doranda Treasury Case in which a CBI special court had sentenced him to five years in prison.The 73-year-old Prasad is in custody following his conviction and sentencing by a CBI court in February in a fodder scam […]