New Delhi/Srinagar, Oct 31 (IANS) At the stroke of midnight on October 31 as Jammu and Kashmir ceased to exist as a state and was formally bifurcated into two Union Territories, the Union Home Ministry in a gazette notification said that those Central laws, Ordinances and rules which were earlier[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 31 (IANS) The Union Home Ministry has issued a notification on reorganisation of “Jammu and Kashmir into the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Union Territory of Ladakh”. The references, by whatever form, of words to the “Government of Jammu and Kashmir”, except where it[Read More…]
Mumbai, Oct 31 (IANS) Actor Ayushmann Khurrana, who is gearing up for the release of “Bala”, says back-to-back success of films makes an actor more fearless and confident, and gives him freedom to take risks. “I don’t feel scared as such but I think when you deliver back-to-back successful films,[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 31 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has expressed anger over the killing of five labourers from West Bengal in a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir, calling it “an act of cowardice and frustration”. On Tuesday evening, five labourers hailing from Murshidabad in West Bengal were[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 31 (IANS) After first denying any malware attack, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) on Wednesday confirmed the presence of malware in its system at the Kudankulam nuclear plant, which has been traced to North Korea’s Dtrack. In a press statement, the NPCIL said “identification of[Read More…]
Rome, Oct 31 (IANS/AKI) The killing of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi represents progress in the fight against terrorism but the threat posed by IS remains “very serious”, Italy’s Foreign Minister Luigi di Maio said on Wednesday. The killing of Al-Baghdadi in northern Syria by US elite special forces[Read More…]
Srinagar, Oct 31 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir ceased to exist as a state from midnight Thursday, and its official bifurcation into two Union Territories – of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh, has taken effect. The state has been officially divided into the two Union Territories pursuant to the Jammu and[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 31 (IANS) The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved Hyundai Motor Company (HMC) and Kia Motors Corporations (KMC) stake acquisition in ANI Technologies, which operates ride-sharing company Ola and Ola Electric, under the Competition Act, 2002. “The commission approved the proposed combination, subject to carrying out[Read More…]
Bengaluru, Oct 31 (IANS) Leading IT services provider Sonata Software on Wednesday reported Rs 72 crore consolidated net profit for the second quarter of fiscal 2019-20, registering 16 per cent annual growth from Rs 62 crore in the same period a year ago. Sequentially, net profit increased 8 per cent[Read More…]
Kolkata, Oct 31 (IANS) A youth was arrested in Singur of West Bengal’s Hooghly district for posting “objectionable and derogatory” comments about Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on social media site Facebook, police said on Wednesday. Chandan Bhattacharya, 28, was nabbed on Tuesday following a complaint filed by Trinamool Youth Congress[Read More…]
Oct 30 (IANS) Telangana has sought transfer of defence land for construction of skyways on the Hyderabad-Nagpur and Hyderabad-Ramagundam highways. Telangana’s Minister for Industry K. T. Rama Rao on Wednesday met Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in New Delhi and made a request in this regard. KTR, as Rao is popularly[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) With the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act to take effect from October 31, the state administration on Wednesday restructured the Power Development Department and shifted all the staff accordingly. The state administration has now set up three new power distribution units — the Kashmir Power[Read More…]
BY SUMIT KUMAR SINGH New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) An abandoned tanker laden with 2,800 million tonne naphtha floating off the Goa Coast could spill its toxic content with a strong cyclone set to buffet the Arabian Sea Coastline. Indian Coast Guard issued a fresh alert on Wednesday of a[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) The urgent need for reforms in the police and judicial systems, coupled with reining in politicians and the media, particularly the electronic media, to prevent them from subverting the system was stressed by former Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar at the release function of his[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Life expectancy in India has increased from 49.7 years in 1970-75 to 68.7 years in 2012-16, as per the National Health Profile 2019 released on Wednesday. For the same period, the life expectancy for females is 70.2 years and 67.4 years for males. For comparison,[Read More…]
London, Oct 30 (IANS) Facebook has agreed to pay 500,000 pound fine as part of a settlement with UK’s data protection watchdog over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. In 2017, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) commenced a formal investigation into the misuse of personal data in political campaigns. The social[Read More…]
Mumbai, Oct 30 (IANS) From the time the trailers of “Bala” and “Ujda Chaman” dropped on the public domain, the release dates of both the films have been going back and forth. Now that “Bala” finally releases on November 7, one of the leading actresses of the film — Yami[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) The High-Level Advisory Group, set up by the government, has in a report advocated opening up of the agriculture sector to prop up exports. According to the report, there is a need to dismantle the Agriculture Produce Market Committees (APMCs), which are great barriers to[Read More…]
Mumbai, Oct 30 (IANS) Anticipation of more economic reforms, like strategic divestment of state-run firms and tax cuts, helped lift the S&P BSE Sensex above the 40,000-mark, first time in the past five months. Positive global cues, expectations of healthy quarterly results and hopes of a sales boost on the[Read More…]
Amaravati, Oct 30 (IANS) The Andhra Pradesh government on Wednesday issued an order, authorising bureaucrats to sue media houses for defamatory, baseless and false reports. Two weeks after the state cabinet took the controversial decision to gag media and ignoring the protest from journalist fraternity and other quarters, the government[Read More…]
Bahalnagar (West Bengal), Oct 30 (IANS) Two of the victims in the Kulgam massacre were planning to leave the Kashmir Valley because of the worsening situation and had decided to board the train for home on Wednesday, but terrorists’ bullets snatched their lives a day prior to their departure. Nayeem[Read More…]
Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) The capital city witnessed less air pollution this Diwali in terms of both gaseous and particulate matter, with both PM 2.5 and PM 10 counts coming lower compared to last year. According to report on air quality and noise on Diwali 2019, prepared by the Central[Read More…]
Chandigarh, Oct 30 (IANS) Terming the AAP’s proposed protest against stubble-burning in the national capital an obvious political stunt with an eye on the upcoming Assembly elections there, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday lashed out at his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal over his “brazen lies on the grave issue[Read More…]
Chennai, Oct 30 (IANS) Chennaiyin FC’s poor start to their Indian Super League (ISL) campaign continued as they lost by a solitary goal to ATK at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium here on Wednesday. After a goalless first half, ATK took the lead in the 48th minute through David Williams, scoring[Read More…]
Srinagar, Oct 30 (IANS) A day before Ladakh becomes a new Union Territory and its first Lt Governor R.K. Mathur takes oath, the Centre on Wednesday named its police chief. S.S. Khandare, a 1995 batch officer Indian Police Service officer of the Jammu and Kashmir cadre, has been appointed the[Read More…]
