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  • Minister’s house attacked; curfew reimposed in Sringar

    Police fired in air and lobbed tear gas shells after a mob attacked a J-K minister’s house in Anantnag on a day when curfew was reimposed in Srinagar and six towns of the Valley and cases registered against Hurriyat chief Mirwaiz Umer Farooq following Saturday’s violence. A mob indulged in heavy stone pelting on Sunday […]

    MP on verge of drought, 23 districts get below ave rains

    Although many parts of the country have received ample amount of rainfall this monsoon the picture is quite dismal in many parts of Madhya Pradesh, Met Department officials said. The state is on the verge of drought for the second consecutive year as 23 out of 50 districts have received below average rainfall, they said […]

    No differences in CCS over AFSPA: Defence Minister

    Ahead of a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security on Monday, Defence Minister A K Antony has maintained that there were no differences in the CCS on the AFSPA in J&K, but admitted “there may be various points of view”. “There are no serious differences in the cabinet. (It is the) same government. When […]

    Election bank A/C compulsary for Poll candidates

    Poll candidates will now be monitored with a separate “shadow” expenditure register and will have to open an exclusive election bank account under the new guidelines framed by the Election Commission to check flow of illegal money at the hustings. The Commission has set up for the first time an Election Expenditure Monitoring (EEM) cell […]

    Case registered against Mirwaiz Umar Farooq

    Jammu and Kashmir Police have registered a case against Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, chairman of the moderate faction of Hurriyat Conference, over burning of government properties by a mob during a protest rally in Srinagar, official sources said Sunday. Police say participants from the rally later set on fire three government offices, including the Crime Branch […]

    Michelle Obama Commemorates 9/11 at Pennsylvania Crash Site

    U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama on Saturday participated in a memorial ceremony in honor of the passengers and crew of United Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. In remarks delivered at the ceremony, Michelle Obama praised the United Flight 93 passengers’ valor. The flight was en route from Newark, New Jersey to San Francisco on Sept. […]

    Yamuna rising, several areas flooded

    The Yamuna continued to swell menacingly with water level reaching nearly two metres above the danger mark on Saturday night, submerging more localities even as city govt maintained that the situation was under control. The rising Yamuna flooded several parts of the capital including Garhi Mandu, Usmanpur Pusta, Jagatpur Village and Shastri Nagar. Areas near […]

    Curfew to be imposed in parts of Srinagar today

    Authorities decided to impose indefinite curfew in parts of Srinagar city on Sunday morning in view of several incidents of arson and violence on Saturday, official sources said. The decision to clamp curfew in the city was taken at a high-level meeting of civil and security forces officials at the Police Control Room in Srinagar […]

    Rains worsen flood situation in Assam, Delhi; kill 6 in WB

    Torrential showers continued to lash north and east India, deteriorating flood situation in Assam and Delhi and killing six people in West Bengal on Saturday. Six people were killed when lightning struck them in West Bengal’s Purulia and Bankura districts. The flood situation in Assam deteriorated with rainfall continuing in the catchment areas, leading to […]

    IAF copter crashes, 3 dead

    Three Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel, including a pilot and a co-pilot, were killed on Saturday when a Chetak helicopter carrying them crashed in bad weather at a remote place in Jharkhand. The chopper was on its way to Baghdogra air base from air force station Kalaikunda in West Bengal when it encountered bad weather […]