New Delhi/Washington The Indian mission in the US has established contact with two immigration detention centres where nearly 100 Indians, mostly from Punjab, are detained for illegally entering the country through its southern border. According to officials, around 40-45 Indians are at a federal detention centre in the Southern American State of New Mexico while […]
NEW DELHI: “From Dehradun to Dublin, from Shanghai to Chicago, from Jakarta to Johannesburg, yoga is everywhere,” declared Prime Minister Narendra Modi today on the occasion of the 4th International Yoga Day. Even as the PM spoke, people were celebrating the day with mass yoga performances everywhere, from beaches to mountain tops – even at […]
Lucknow Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said that the Centre wants terrorism to end and peace to prevail in Kashmir. “Our only aim is that terrorism should end and peace should prevail in Kashmir and our government will work keeping this in mind,” he told reporters here. He was responding to a question about BJP pulling out […]
New Delhi Arvind Subramanian has stepped down as the Chief Economic Adviser on account of “pressing family commitments”. Union Minister Arun Jaitley announced the news on Facebook. “Few days ago Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian met me over video conferencing. He informed me that he would like to go back to the United States on […]
New Delhi Plastic has become one of the major challenges for every country across world. Every country is trying different method to tackle this abruptly growing anti-environment plastic. Similarly, Indian Railways has taken an initiative by installing plastic bottle crushers at railway stations. It has started from Vadodra Railway Station. By dropping each bottle into […]
SRINAGAR: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has pulled out of the alliance with People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday. Mehbooba Mufti and her team of ministers have sent in their resignations to the governor. The state is heading for a President’s rule. Confirming the development at a press conference, BJP leader […]
New Delhi As International Yoga Day approaches, yoga guru Baba Ramdev conducted a yoga session with nearly 11,000 inmates of the Tihar Jail today and also promised jobs to some of them,a jail official said. The inmates from nine jails had gathered in jail number 1 and Ramdev made them do yoga. He advised them […]
Srinagar In the first major anti-terror operation post Ramzaan, four terrorists were killed in an encounter by the security forces on Monday morning in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district. The encounter is currently underway. Last week, on June 14, two militants and an Army jawan were killed in an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipora district. […]
New Delhi The age-old customary practice of exchanging sweets at Eid-ul-Fitr amongst army personnel from India and Pakistan at Attari-Wagah border turned sour this year. After continuous instances of ceasefire violations, Border Security Forces (BSF) and the Pakistan Rangers decided not to carry out the celebratory exchange. In the latest instance of ceasefire, 21-year-old rifleman […]
Bengaluru Parashuram Waghmare, the last of the six suspects arrested in connection with the killing of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh, was her assassin, the SIT probing the sensational case said today. A senior official in the Special Investigation Team also said the same weapon was used to shoot Gauri Lankesh, rationalists Govind Pansare and M M […]