Gulmarg Awaits Sporting Brilliance: Countdown begins for Khelo India Edition-4
BARAMULLA, JAN 22: In preparation of the 4th edition of Khelo India National Winter Games at Gulmarg, the Deputy Commissioner (DC) Baramulla, Minga Sherpa today convened a meeting of concerned officers at Golf Club Gulmarg to take stock of various arrangements put in place for holding the games. During the meeting, the DC conducted a […]
Ram Lalla consecrated at Ayodhya temple; ‘extraordinary moment’ says PM Modi
AYODHYA, Jan 22 (PTI): The new Ram Lalla idol was consecrated at the Ayodhya temple on Monday, an event led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and watched by lakhs of people on television at their homes and in temples across the country. Army helicopters showered flower petals on the newly constructed Janmabhoomi temple as the […]
Wildlife officials capture Leopard in Hajin Bandipora
Bandipora, Jan 22: Hours after injuring a youth, a Wildlife Department team in Bandipora on Monday successfully captured a leopard in Hajin area. “In a swift response to the attack, a Wildlife Department team, led by Range Officer Fida ur Rehman, successfully captured the leopard”, an official said. Earlier a youth identified as Umar Zahoor […]
Wild boar attacks and injures six people in south Kashmir’s Kulgam
Srinagar, Jan 22: At least six people were injured after being attacked by a wild boar in the main town of south Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Monday. An official at DH Kulgam said that the wild boar appeared in the market and injured six people. “The hospital has so far received six injured people who […]
Three drug peddlers held in Sopore north Kashmir: Police
Srinagar, Jan 22: Three persons were arrested along with a huge consignment of drugs in north Kashmir’s Sopore, police said on Monday. Sub Divisional Police Officer Sopore, Dr Raies Ahmed Mir said that on 11 January a naka was established at railway crossing, following which a truck was interrupted. He said that during checking 3600 […]
India records 203 fresh Covid cases, two deaths in 24 hours
New Delhi, Jan 22 (PTI) India reported a single-day rise of 203 Covid cases while the active caseload was recorded at 2,034, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday. Two deaths — one each in Kerala and Maharashtra — have been reported in 24 hours, according to the data updated at 8 am. The number of […]
Courts cannot direct govt to notify law passed by Parliament, says SC
New Delhi, Jan 22 (PTI) The courts cannot direct the government to notify a law passed by Parliament, the Supreme Court said on Monday while dismissing a PIL seeking implementation of certain provisions of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code. “It is up to the government to notify a law passed by Parliament. This is beyond […]
Man dies in fire mishap at Pattan in north Kashmir, two houses damaged
Srinagar, Jan 22: A man was charred to death, while two residential houses were damaged in a massive fire in Khambiyat village of Baramulla’s Pattan late last night, officials said. They said that fire broke out in one of the residential houses due to a short circuit in electric blanket in which a 26-year-old man […]
Ayodhya 2.0: Transformed holy town turns a page with temple pivot
Ayodhya, Jan 22 (PTI) Security barricades, barbed wires and frequent frisking by police personnel have been a common sight in Ayodhya. But the holy city has now undergone a paradigm shift fuelled by massive infrastructure growth with the grand Ram temple at its heart. It was the 2019 Supreme Court verdict on the fractious Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri […]
Kashmir in grip of intense cold wave
SRINAGAR, Jan 22 (PTI): The cold wave in Kashmir intensified as most places in the valley recorded extreme subzero temperatures, officials said here on Monday. The minimum plunged 7.4 degrees below freezing point in Pulwama and Shopian towns in south Kashmir on Sunday night, the officials said. The twin towns in south Kashmir were the […]
