The Indian Army conducted surgical strikes across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir, the Director General Military Operations (DGMO) said in a press conference on Thursday. The strikes were carried out to prevent Pakistani terrorists who had “positioned themselves at launch pads with the aim to carry out[Read More…]
Two Pakistani soldiers were killed in an exchange of fire between Indian and Pakistani troops across the Line of Control (LoC) in Bhimber, Hotspring Kel and Lipa Sectors in the Kashmir Valley, Pakistan Army claimed on Thursday. A Pakistani soldier has also been injured in the exchange of fire that[Read More…]
Pakistan is “ready” to use tactical devices against India, if it feels its safety is threatened. In a recent interview with a Pakistani TV channel SAMAA, Pakistani defence minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif said that they won’t hesitate to annihilate India by these tactical weapons- a reference to nuclear weapons that Pakistan is[Read More…]
Corporate Affairs ex-director general, BK Bansal who committed suicide on Tuesday along with his son has accused CBI officers of torturing him and his family. CBI has said that the officers named in the note will be investigated by the agency, reported NDTV. Bansal (60) and Yogesh (30) were found[Read More…]
Indore resident, Amit Yadav (24) made a fake Facebook account of a woman by the name of Atharva and befriended Priya Rawat (17). When Yadav revealed his true identity to Priya, she broke all ties with him. The enraged techie then reached Priya’s flat on Tuesday and attacked the girl[Read More…]
With the ties between India and Pakistan straining every day, businesses on both sides of the border get set to be affected. With reports claiming that actor Fawad Khan has gone back to Pakistan and does not wish to return, the film industry is bracing up for impact. Pakistan’s film[Read More…]
The Justice R M Lodha panel in its status report filed before the Supreme Court (SC) has sought the replacement of top brass of the BCCI with cricket administrators including its President Anurag Thakur and Secretary Ajay Shirke. The panel said that the BCCI and its office bearers are not complying[Read More…]
With the centre approving the name change on Wednesday, Gurgaon has now officially been rechristened as Gurugram. The announcement was made by Haryana chief minister, Manohar Lal Khattar shortly after he presided over the first meeting of the state-level Swarna Jayanti (golden jubilee) celebrations committee in Panchkula. “From now on,[Read More…]
Pakistan Army has started its biggest core level joint war game exercise some 15-20 kilometres away from the international border adjoining Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. The exercise started on September 22 and will continue till October 30 which will be partaken by 15,000 army and 300 air force personnel. As a result BSF[Read More…]
In yet another setback for Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan on Wednesday pulled out of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) Summit in Islamabad. Bangladesh said it was unable to participate in the summit because of “growing interference in internal affairs of Bangladesh by one country”. News reports[Read More…]
Majority of deaths in India is not caused by diseases but due to air pollution. Air pollution is killing nearly 8,00,000 people annually in the South East Asian Region with India alone accounting for over 75% of the casualties caused by cardiovascular diseases and lung cancer, according to a new[Read More…]
It is not only humans who are migrating from one corner of the country to the other and trying to cope with new atmosphere, struggling to understand the different language. Rama, a 5-year-old male ‘Tamil tiger’ is facing same sort of problem in Udaipur, Rajasthan after he was brought here under[Read More…]
The nation celebrates the birthday of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh on Tuesday. Singh, a revolutionary socialist, played a crucial role during the Indian freedom struggle. Bhagat Singh with his other companions Rajguru, Chandrashekhar Azad, Sukhdev and Jai Gopal took revenge for the assassination of Lala Lajpat Rai. On April 8,[Read More…]
Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Maleeha Lodhi has described Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s address to the UN as a ‘litany of falsehoods’ and ‘a travesty of facts and history’. She added that Jammu and Kashmir “never was and can never be an integral part of India. Maleeha[Read More…]
Upping the ante against Pakistan after the Uri terror attack, India will now decide whether to withdraw Most Favoured Nation status to that country. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called a meeting with top officials on Thursday for a review in this regard. PM Modi consulted with National Security Adviser[Read More…]
Akali Dal on Tuesday hit out at Arvind Kejriwal government for allegedly not honoring its commitment of raising salaries of part-time Punjabi teachers in the national capital, saying it reflected its “anti-Punjab” and “anti-Punjabi” attitude. Akali Dal leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa said a month after a High Court ruling the[Read More…]
Four Indian women passengers were stopped by the Pakistan Railways authorities on Monday from boarding the Delhi-bound Samjhauta Express allegedly over “incomplete” travel documents. “The authorities say our travel documents are incomplete,” one of the affected women passengers said wiping her tears. She said her family members were waiting for[Read More…]
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in her address at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York today hit out at Pakistan holding it accountable for nurturing terrorism on its land. Swaraj also took up the issue of human rights violations in Balochistan. Swaraj appealed to the General Assembly[Read More…]
After Raj Thackeray-led MNS threatened Pakistani artistes working in India to return home or face action last week, BJP lawmaker from Uttar Pradesh Sangeet Som on Monday said the artistes should be “beaten with shoes” for failing to condemn the terror attack on an army camp in Kashmir’s Uri in[Read More…]
Rahul Gandhi blamed BJP-RSS for the shoe attack earlier in the day. He said, “I want to tell that that they can attack me as many as times as they want, I will not back down and will keep on fighting.” Gandhi who is in UP campaigning for the party[Read More…]
A shocking incident has come forward from remote Dhalai district of Tripura where a tribal couple sold their daughter as they were unable to bear the expenses of the infant. The family which belongs to the Below Poverty Line (BPL) category sold the girl child for ₹ 650, according to[Read More…]
A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional legality of the Indus Valley treaty. The PIL has been filed by a Delhi-based lawyer on the grounds that the treaty was not signed by the then President of India. It is a water-sharing arrangement signed which was signed by the two[Read More…]
Reliance Jio is gearing up to start doorstep delivery of its SIM cards. For registration, the company may soon launch a portal where prospective customers will have to fill in basic information, such as full name, address, alternate contact number, identity proof and address proof. Once all the details are[Read More…]
A 20-year-old man met a tragic end after falling into a dam in Maharashtra’s Beed district while taking a selfie. Sheikh had gone to the Bindusarai dam in the afternoon with his friends. While clicking a selfie along the edge of the dam, Gazik Sheikh and his friend Akhtar Sheikh,[Read More…]
Former minister KJ George was re-inducted into the Siddaramaiah government on Monday. This development comes a week after the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) gave a clean chit to George. George was allegedly accused of being involved in Deputy SP MK Ganapathi’s death. The CID submitted a report at the local[Read More…]
