India successfully tests anti-satellite weapon: PM Modi
New Delhi: India shot down a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite, which was a pre-determined target, Prime Minster Narendra Modi said on Wednesday Hindustan Times reported that India has become a “space superpower” with the successful testing of anti-satellite weapon. PM Modi said India is only the fourth nation after the US, Russia and China. […]
Tipu Sultan’s silver-mounted gun fetches 60,000 pounds at UK auction
New Delhi: The collection of rare artefacts discovered by a couple after years of lying wrapped up in their attic in the English county of Berkshire and evaluated as items from Tipu Sultan’s armoury was auctioned for around 107,000 pounds. The highlight lot, a silver-mounted 20-bore flintlock gun and bayonet from the personal armoury of […]
Former PDP MLA Javed Mir joins Shah Faisal
Srinagar: Former Peoples Democratic Party member Javed Mustafa Mir on Wednesday joined former IAS officer turned politician Shah Faisal. Mir joined Faisal’s Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Movement after he quit PDP in January this year. He had not cited any reason that time as to why he had quit PDP.
BJP no longer an outsider but a mainstream party in J&K: Ram Madhav
Srinagar: BJP senior leader and incharge of Kashmir affairs on Wednesday said that their party is no longer an outsider but a mainstream party in the state. “BJP is now a mainstream party even though our footprints are not huge but we are no longer an outsiders,” madhav told a presser here. According […]
Sensex jumps over 200 pts; Nifty reclaims 11,500 level
Mumbai, Mar 27 (PTI) The benchmark BSE Sensex jumped over 200 points and the NSE Nifty reclaimed the 11,500 mark in early trade Wednesday led by gains in banking stocks amid sustained foreign fund inflows and positive global cues. The 30-share index was trading 205.47 points, or 0.54 per cent, higher at […]
Goa: 2 MGP MLAs break away from party, merge legislative wing with BJP
Panaji, Mar 27 (PTI) Two of the three MGP MLAs in Goa early Wednesday merged their party’s legislative wing with the BJP, which now has 14 legislators in the 40-member state assembly. Legislators Manohar Ajgaonkar and Dipak Pawaskar gave a letter to merge the MGP legislature party with the BJP to officiating Goa Assembly Speaker […]
Nawaz Sharif walks out of prison after 3 months on medical grounds
Lahore, Mar 27 (PTI) Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was released from jail on Wednesday, a day after the Supreme Court granted him six weeks’ bail to receive medical treatment within the country. Sharif, 69, was lodged in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail since December last year, serving a seven-year imprisonment in the Al-Azizia Steel […]
Man asks 26-yr-old to return loan, killed
New Delhi, Mar 27 (PTI) A 26-year-old man was arrested here for allegedly killing a person, who had asked him to pay back a loan of Rs 30,000, police said Tuesday. The case was solved within 24 hours of the incident, they said. Nitin Yadav was arrested for killing Bhoj Narayanan in south-west Delhi with […]
Indo-Pak relations: Till elections are over in India clouds of uncertainty will continue, says Imran Khan
Islamabad: Prime Minister Imran Khan has said Indo-Pak relations would remain tense till the general elections in India are over, adding he feared “another misadventure” by Pakistan’s eastern neighbour. Tensions between India and Pakistan escalated after the February 14 attack by Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed in Pulwama. Amid mounting outrage, the Indian Air Force carried out a […]
BJP plans a massive attendance at PM’s rally in Jammu
Jammu: Over two lakh people will attend the rally in Akhnoor, from where Prime Minister NarendraModi will kick-start the BJP’s election campaign in the state, party state president Ravinder Raina said Tuesday. The BJP will retain all three LokSabha seats of Jammu, Udhampur and Ladakh despite the coming together of ‘traitors’ in the state, Raina […]
