New Delhi India is facing its worst water crisis in history, a NITI Aayog report said today. The report said that currently 600 million Indians face high to extreme water shortage and about two lakh people die every year due to inadequate access to potable water. The water crisis will get worse, as the country’s […]
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir’s leading English newspaper ‘Rising Kashmir’ on Friday paid tribute to its editor-in-chief Shujaat Bukhari who was shot dead by some bike-borne terrorists outside his office at the Press Colony on Thursday evening. Rising Kashmir’s latest edition hit the stands on Friday morning with its front page carrying the full-length photograph of […]
New Delhi As a thick blanket of haze and dust enveloped Delhi and parts of the National Capital Region (NCR), the air quality nosedived to the “severe” level. The pollution masks are back and people have been advised to stay at home as the dusty conditions are likely to continue for the next few days. For Delhi, […]
Gujrat Gujarat will become the first Indian state to get completely covered under the piped gas distribution network after the ninth round of bidding, which will see a quarter of the country brought under the network. The western Indian state already has 84.31 per cent of its area under the city gas distribution (CGD) network, […]
Lucknow A group of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) members tried to vandalise the west gate of the Taj Mahal on Sunday alleging that the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) is blocking the way to a 400-year-old Shiva temple while constructing a closed area for the Taj Mahal. A video footage of the incident shows VHP […]
India The United States government has approved a deal to sell the Indian military six AH-64E Apache attack helicopters for $930 million, the State Department said Tuesday. The agreement has been passed to the US Congress for approval, but if no US lawmaker raises an objection the contract is expected to go ahead. Boeing and […]
Palghar The government is likely to miss a December deadline to acquire land for a Japan-backed $17 billion bullet train project following protests by fruit growers, officials said, likely delaying one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s most ambitious projects. PM Modi’s office is now monitoring the project week-to-week, as officials seek to reassure Tokyo that the […]
Srinagar Two policemen were killed and another injured after terrorists attacked a checkpost at a court complex in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district. The terrorists fired at the police guard post in an attack shortly before dawn this morning. The terrorists stole the rifles and ammunition of the two policemen and fled. The two policemen […]
Bengaluru Nirav Modi, the billionaire jeweller at the heart of a more than Rs 13,400 crore fraud case in India, has fled to the UK, where he is claiming political asylum, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing Indian and British officials. Britain’s Home Office said it does not provide information on individual cases. Nirav […]
New Delhi Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) National Convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday lashed out at the Centre and claimed that his government was a victim of political witch hunt. Kejriwal, who had been muted in his criticism of the Narendra Modi government since his loss in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi […]