Last month the political parties of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) sent the Modi government and its intelligence agencies in a tizzy. On 22 August, six major political parties released Gupkar Declaration 2.0 calling the revocation of special status and bifurcation of J&K a “spitefully, short-sighted and unconstitutional move.” The joint statement signed by political parties, barring […]
Global private equity firm General Atlantic will invest Rs 3,675 crore to buy a 0.84 per cent stake in Reliance Industries Ltd’s retail arm, extending the fundraising spree by billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led firm. General Atlantic will invest in Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd (RRVL), a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Ltd, the Indian firm said in a […]
Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) cricketer Abdul Samad opened up on his Indian Premier League debut on Tuesday night and the six he hit off Anrich Nortje in a candid chat with his Sunrisers Hyderabad teammate Rashid Khan. 18-year-old Abdul Samad remained unbeaten on 12 off 7 balls in SRH’s total of 162 for 4 against […]
WELLINGTON: New Zealand will launch their home summer of cricket with a Twenty20 International against West Indies at Eden Park in Auckland on Nov 27 before two Test series against the same visitors and Pakistan, New Zealand Cricket (NZC) said on Tuesday. The New Zealand government had green-lighted the West Indies and Pakistan tours and […]
Over 2,300 Armenian servicemen were killed and wounded in the continuing clashes in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijani defence ministry claimed on Wednesday. “From September 27 and up to this morning, around 2,300 enemy fighters were eliminated and wounded; around 130 tanks and other armoured vehicles, over 200 artillery, missile and mortar launchers, around 25 air defense weapons; […]
New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 caseload raced past 62 lakh on Wednesday with 80,472 infections being reported in a day, while the number of recoveries surged to 51,87,825 pushing the recovery rate to 83.33 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The total number of coronavirus cases mounted to 62,25,763, while the death […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday refused to postpone UPSC civil services preliminary exam, to be held on October 4, because of COVID-19 pandemic and floods in several parts of the country. A bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar, B R Gavai and Krishna Murari asked the Centre to consider granting one more chance to those […]
Nearly 30 years after the Babri Masjid was demolishd, a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Lucknow pronounced its judgement on the case on Wednesday. The CBI court in its judgement has acquitted all the 32 accused and has cited lack of evidence. The court in its judgement said that the demolition was not a result […]
All the mainstream political parties of Jammu and Kashmir are trying their best to remain relevant here post abrogation of article 370. As the political activities have frozen for all of them and only the BJP and some ground level political workers have been allowed to go freely has reinforced the fears among them that […]
Pushing its old claim line in Ladakh and hardening its position on the situation there, Beijing Tuesday said it does not recognise the Union Territory of Ladakh and is opposed to the construction of Indian infrastructure there. New Delhi reacted sharply, saying it has “never accepted the so-called unilaterally defined 1959 Line of Actual Control”, and […]