The year 2022 was more peaceful for Jammu and Kashmir compared to the last four years and saw the killing of 186 terrorists, including 56 foreign nationals, director general of police (DGP) Dilbagh Singh said Saturday.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said BJP will find it very difficult to win the 2024 elections as there is a “massive undercurrent” against the party, but added that the opposition will have to coordinate well and present an “alternative vision” for the country to exploit the popular mood.
A 34-year-old man died of burn injuries after the bus he was driving collided with a truck on the Delhi-Jaipur highway, trapping him in the cabin as it went up in flames due to a CNG leak on Friday morning.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday voiced confidence that India's presidencies of the SCO and G20 will build multi-dimensional cooperation between the two countries and will strengthen the stability and security in Asia and the entire world.While India formally assumed the G20 Presidency on December 1, it took over the rotating presidency of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on September 16.
The husband of slain Jharkhand actor-YouTuber Riya Kumari was arrested early Thursday and charged with murder, destruction of evidence, torture and criminal conspiracy, hours after he allegedly spun a story about his wife being shot and killed while accosting unidentified armed men who had tried to rob him at gunpoint on NH-16 near Kolkata.
From January 1 onwards, people flying into India from China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand will need to submit a negative RT-PCR test report before departure. The test has to be conducted 72 hours before undertaking the journey, an order issued by the Union health ministry on Thursday stated.
Nearly 83% occupants killed in accidents across India in 2021 were not wearing seatbelts, as per road transport ministry. It highlights how two out of every three two-wheeler riders (about 67%) who died in road crashes last year were not wearing helmets. As per WHO, use of seat belts can reduce serious crash-related injuries and deaths by half, while using properly strapped full-face covering helmets can reduce fatal injuries of two-wheeler riders by up to 64% and brain injuries by up to 74%.
An SC Constitution bench will on January 2, the first day of business after winter break, deliver its judgment on a bunch of petitions which had challenged the Union government’s November 8, 2016 decision to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes. All 58 petitions are listed for judgment on January 2 before an SC bench. Most petitions challenged the validity of demonetisation while some sought fresh window for exchanging scrapped notes which could not be exchanged within deadline.
Covid-19 cases in India may witness a sharp uptick in January but are unlikely to cause severe symptoms or death, government sources said on Wednesday, citing past trends. China’s U-turn on travel restrictions at a time when it is grappling with a massive surge in infections is a concern as it could add to the caseload in India. However, the source said, complete restriction on flights between Hong Kong and India was unlikely and there was focus on tightening the screening methods instead.
Four suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists from Pakistan were killed in an hour-long shootout after security forces stopped a Kashmir-bound truck with a fake registration number in which they were travelling near Sidhra on the outskirts of Jammu early Wednesday.
India raised the profile of the UN Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) as the chair of this committee, said Permanent Ambassador to United Nations Ruchira Kamboj on Wednesday, as she summed up New Delhi's tenure at the UN high table.
Chanda Kochhar, former CEO and MD of ICICI Bank, and her husband Deepak Kochhar approached the Bombay high court vacation bench a day after a trial court extended their police custody following their December 23 arrest by the CBI in an alleged corruption case over high-value loans. The HC vacation bench said there was “no urgency” after their lawyer said the plea was for quashing of the remand order. The HC added, “On January 2nd you can take circulation.”
Days after the Karnataka legislature cleared a resolution on the inter-state border dispute, both houses of Maharashtra legislature on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution to legally pursue inclusion of 865 Marathi-speaking villages and its citizens into the state and make all-out efforts to contest the ongoing case in Supreme Court. Among the villages to be included in Maharashtra are Belagavi (earlier Belgaum), Karwar, Bidar, Balki and Nipani.
The Odisha government ordered on Tuesday a crime branch investigation into the mysterious deaths of Russian businessman and lawmaker Pavel Antov (65) and his friend Vladimir Bydanov (61) within days of each other in Odisha’s Rayagada town.
dia will bid for hosting the Olympic Games in 2036. A roadmap will be presented before the full members of the International Olympic Committee during the IOC session in Mumbai in September 2023, Union sports minister Anurag Thakur told TOI in an exclusive interview on Tuesday. Thakur said the government will back the Indian Olympic Association’s bid for hosting the Games and that Gujarat’s Ahmedabad will likely be the ‘host city’ with world-class sporting infrastructure available there.
In light of increased Covid caution in the wake of several countries witnessing a sharp rebound in infections, pandemic preparedness drills were conducted across India on Tuesday to check the readiness of hospitals to deal with any potential spurt in the number of cases. Health minister Mansukh Mandaviya, who visited Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi to review the Covid-response drill, said the exercise was necessary to know how prepared the hospitals were.
After accusations that the BJP was attempting to appropriate Congress leaders such as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, BR Ambedkar, Subhash Chandra Bose and Narasimha Rao, the grand old party has sought to do the same with former prime minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
The highly transmissible BF.7 Omicron variant of Covid-19 was highly unlikely to trigger another “wave” in the country, experts said, suggesting India should redefine a “surge or wave” to avoid panic in case localised or sporadic rise in caseloads is detected. "The worst-case scenario is that the variant will cause mild upper respiratory symptoms for one or two days,” said virologist Dr V Ravi.
Cold conditions intensified in Kashmir as the minimum temperature dipped several degrees below the freezing point and many places experienced the season's coldest night, officials said Sunday. The intense cold conditions led to freezing of water supply lines in many areas as well as the freezing of the interiors of the Dal Lake, officials said.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday stopped his Bharat Jodo Yatra near Apollo hospital here to give way to an ambulance. He halted for a while to let the ambulance pass. He also asked fellow Yatris to give way to the ambulance. This incident occurred near Apollo hospital in the national capital at around 8:30 am
In that context, MoS finance Pankaj Chaudhary said, “the quantum of banknotes that needs to be printed broadly depends on the requirement for meeting the demand for banknotes due to inflation, GDP growth, replacement of soiled banknotes, reserve stock requirements, growth in non-cash modes of payments etc.”
Maya, who was frequently assaulted by her inebriated husband, had lost one of her eyes in the attack while her son sustained acid burns and deep wounds.
Covid-19 cases have generally been rising around the world since early November but the numbers continue to steadily decline in India. In the week that ended Sunday, the country recorded just 12 deaths - including zero deaths on three of the days - the fewest since daily Covid fatalities started being reported in March 2020. Cases detected in India during the week fell to 1,103, again the lowest weekly number since March 23-29, 2020, when the first nationwide lockdown was imposed.
External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Monday objected to Rahul Gandhi's remarks on border standoff with China and said "we should not disrespect our jawans.""The word 'pitai' should not be used for our jawans," Jaishankar said in Lok Sabha responding to Rahul's attack over the government doing nothing to counter China's aggression at the border.
The opposition parties on Monday staged a walkout from Rajya Sabha as their demand to hold a debate over the recent clashes along the LAC between the Indian and Chinese forces at the Tawang sector in Arunachal Pradesh was disallowed.
External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Monday hit out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his barbs at China and said the Indian Army is not deployed on his order. Jaishankar while speaking at a media conclave said that this is the biggest-ever LAC deployment by India and this is done in order to counter Chinese deployments which were scaled up massively since 2020.
More than 15,000 vacancies in various government departments were filled in three years while the selection process for 8,000 more was in progress, Jammu and Kashmir Services Selection Board (SSB) chairman Rajesh Sharma said.
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