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Cong leaders meet to decide on supporting Shiv Sena

New Delhi, Nov 11: As its flock of 44 Maharashtra MLAs huddled together in a Jaipur resort, the Congress Working Committee met here on Monday to take a decision on whether or not to support the Shiv Sena in forming a government in the state. Party president Sonia Gandhi […]

Computerised Registration System for registration of documents to be rolled out by 30.11.2019

open view news desk JAMMU, NOVEMBER 10: Chief Secretary, B. V. R. Subrahmanyam chaired a High Level Meeting at Civil Secretariat, Jammu to finalize the steps for rolling out the Computerised Registration System across the UT of J&K. The ultimate objective of the Computerised Registration System would be […]

World’s worst air: India’s pollution crisis in perspective

Wildfires have raged across California for about a month and air problems persist in China, but no other place on Earth is battling the scale and severity of the pollution that chokes large swathes of north India. (Click tmsnrt.rs/34BzfaO for an animated world map showing the amount of PM 2.5 […]

Supreme Court to rule on Hindu-Muslim dispute over Ayodhya site

NEW DELHI – The Supreme Court is due to rule on Saturday on the ownership of a centuries-old religious site claimed by both majority Hindus and Muslims, a dispute that has cast a shadow of suspicion over the two communities for decades. Thousands of paramilitary force members and […]

One dead, 45 injured in grenade attack in Kashmir’s Srinagar – sources

SRINAGAR – One person died and at least 45 were injured on Monday in a grenade attack in Indian-administered Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar, Indian officials said, in the bloodiest incident since New Delhi stripped the region of special status on Aug. 5. The injured, including three Indian […]

China’s Xi lands in India amid scattered Tibetan protests

MAMALLAPURAM, India – Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in southern India on Friday for talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to try to halt a slide in ties over the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir amid scattered anti-China protests from Tibetan groups. China and its all-weather ally […]

India to lift travel advisory on Kashmir two months after crackdown

SRINAGAR, India – India will on Thursday lift an advisory asking tourists and pilgrims to leave Jammu & Kashmir, further rolling back steps taken during a crackdown launched before the government took away the Muslim majority state’s special status two months ago. Even as the state government issued […]

144 juveniles were detained in J-K after Article 370 abrogation: Report

New Delhi, Oct 2: The Juvenile Justice Committee of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court has told the Supreme Court that 144 juveniles were detained in the state after the Centre abrogated provisions of Article 370, but 142 minors were later released. The committee, in its report filed in […]

BJP should first pursue path of truth and then talk about Mahatma Gandhi: Priyanka

Lucknow, Oct 2: Taking a swipe at the BJP, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Wednesday said it should first pursue the path of truth shown by Mahatma Gandhi and then talk about him. She made the remarks before participating in a silent march organised here by the Congress […]

Journalists in Kashmir protest curbs on press

NEW DELHI — Dozens of journalists in Indian-controlled Kashmir have held a sit-in to protest a communications blackout in the disputed Himalayan region, describing the blockade of the internet and mobile phones as a government-imposed gag. For the last two months, mobile phones and internet services have been […]

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