High schools open in Kashmir, students missing

Srinagar (IANS) Students preferred to stay away from schools even as the Jammu and Kashmir administration announced the opening of all the higher secondary schools across the Kashmir Valley after a gap of two months since the abrogation of Article…

Expect Kashmir among top states by 2029: Shah

New Delhi (IANS) Flagging off the second semi-high speed indigenous Vande Bharat train from the national capital to Katra in Jammu and Kashmir, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday announced that Kashmir would be in the "list of most developed…

PM praises Reliance, Tata Group for cleanliness drive

New Delhi (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday praised Reliance Foundation and Tata Group for their recent cleanliness drives and contribution to the 'Swachh Bharat' mission.

Reliance Foundation had tweeted…

Shastri surcharged India with 'Jai Jawan Jai Kisan': Modi

New Delhi (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on his 115th birth anniversary on Wednesday, saying he had given new energy to the whole nation with his call of "Jai Jawan Jai Kisan".

PM leads nation in paying tribute to the Mahatma

New Delhi (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday led the nation in paying respect to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary by paying tribute to the Father of Nation at the Raj Ghat here.

He stayed for some time at…

600 prisoners across India to be released on Gandhi Jayanti

New Delhi (IANS) Nearly 600 prisoners, convicted of offenses other than murder, rape, and corruption, will be released from 150 jails across the country on Wednesday, the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. All these prisoners will…

NIA charge sheet against Yasin Malik, others on Thursday

Srinagar (IANS) In a sign of tightening the noose around the separatists, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is likely to file charge sheet against several Kashmiri separatists, including Yasin Malik of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front…

MP sex scam: Ex-Ministers, top babus, TV reporter under lens

Bhopal (IANS) A former MP Cabinet Minister had to resign following a 'sting operation' by the honey-trap syndicate in 2016. After watching the two-minute video, authenticated by forensic experts, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) central…

SC sets aside its 2018 verdict on SC/ST Act

New Delhi (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside its judgment which introduced measures like prior inquiry before the arrest of an accused under Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities Act), 1989.

The…

'Back to Valley' program aims at reviving tourism in Kashmir

Srinagar (IANS) The Centre is launching the ‘Back to Valley programme to give a major boost to tourism in the Kashmir Valley. This will be the first major push by the government to revive tourism in Kashmir after the scrapping of Article 370.