Jammu, Jan 5 (IANS) Helicopter and cable car services to the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine were suspended on Saturday due to heavy snowfall in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district. Officials said the services from Katra…
Palamau (Jharkhand), Jan 5 (IANS) In an obvious attack on the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that he preferred to complete the pending irrigation projects to empower farmers instead of waiving their…
By Subhash K. Jha “Simmba” is a hit, and there is nothing to rejoice in that victory. This is as basic and crude as cinematic entertainment can get. I laughed, sometimes uproariously, at Ranveer Singh’s…
By Arundhuti Banerjee Mumbai, Jan 5 (IANS) “The Accidental Prime Minister”, a forthcoming film centred around former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his journey with the Congress party, became a talking point since its trailer…
By Arun Bapat During the recent past, there have been a number of publications, discussions and meetings about the possibility of a large magnitude earthquake in the Himalayas that have left most people with a…
Srinagar, Jan 5 (IANS) All flight operations to and from the Srinagar international airport were halted on Saturday due to heavy snowfall, officials said. An airport official said due to poor visibility and snow accumulation…
New Delhi, Jan 5 (IANS) After a day of heated debate on the controversial Rafale deal Parliament, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday again picked up the gauntlet and said that Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman…
Srinagar, Jan 5 (IANS) Five members of a family were found dead under mysterious circumstances in Jammu and Kashmir’s summer capital Srinagar on Saturday, police said. The victims, two females, a male and two minor…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, Jan 5 (IANS) Whatever the state of politics between India and Pakistan may be, the citizens of the neighbouring countries, separated at birth, are naturally drawn to each other and…
New Delhi, Jan 5 (IANS) Following sexual harassment allegations in November 2018 and an indefinite period of leave, Sotheby’s Managing Director for India Gaurav Bhatia has stepped down from the post, an official statement said…
By Amulya Ganguli Unlike the Congress, the communists or the socialists, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has rarely seen major fissures. Occasionally, a person may have become involved in political feuds within the party, as…
Srinagar, Jan 5 (IANS) A gunfight erupted on Saturday between the security forces and holed-up militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district, officials said. Police said security forces started a cordon and search operation in…
Shimla, Jan 5 (IANS) Six persons, including five students, were killed on Saturday when a school bus skidded off the road and rolled into a gorge in Himachal Pradesh’s Sirmaur district, an official said. The…
Lucknow, Jan 5 (IANS) Fog continued to wreak havoc in most parts of Uttar Pradesh for the second consecutive day on Saturday, officials said. According to the regional Met Office, a layer of fog has…
Shimla, Jan 5 (IANS) Snowfall continued to elude this Himachal Pradesh capital on Saturday, but the tourist resort of Manali had snow. The minimum temperature recorded at Manali was one degree Celsius, the weather office…
Srinagar, Jan 5 (IANS) Widespread snowfall lashed the Kashmir Valley on Saturday as air and surface links between the region and the outside world were snapped. The Met Office said widespread snowfall, light in plains…
New Delhi, Jan 5 (IANS) It was a misty morning in the national capital on Saturday with the minimum temperature recorded at 5.4 degrees Celsius, two notches below average, while the air quality was ‘very…
Jalandhar, Jan 5 (IANS) Nobel Prize-winning scientist Duncan Haldane believes India’s brain drain problem can be reversed if the right policy of funding is introduced. He said brain drain — a phenomenon where bright and…
Bengaluru, Jan 5 (IANS) A staffer of Karnataka Congress Minister C. Puttaranga Shetty was caught with unaccounted Rs 14 lakh in cash at the entrance of the state secretariat in the city centre, police said…
New Delhi, Jan 5 (IANS) Declaring the supply and distribution of electricity as “essential” services, Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal on Friday invoked the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) ahead of a proposed strike by…