Parliament’s Budget Session from Jan 31
New Delhi, Jan 13 (PTI) Parliament’s Budget Session will begin from January 31 with President Droupadi Murmu’s address to the joint sitting of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. The Session will have 27 sittings and will continue till April 6 with a month-long recess to examine the budget papers, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said. […]
Former JK CMs condole Sharad Yadav’s demise
Srinagar, Jan 13 (PTI) Leaders of various political parties in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday paid tributes to late socialist leader Sharad Yadav, saying he did not compromise with his values of secularism and diversity and always stood with the weakest. The 75-year-old Yadav died on Thursday at a private hospital in Gurugram. […]
Fresh snowfall shuts national highway, flight operations affected
Srinagar, Jan 13 (PTI) Most parts of Kashmir received fresh snowfall and rains on Friday leading to the closure of the Srinagar-Jammu national highway and impacting the flight operations to and fro the Valley, officials said here. While the higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir experienced moderate to heavy snowfall, many areas in the plains […]
NIA file charge-sheet against six accused in Kathua Hexacopter case
Srinagar, Jan 13: National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed charge-sheet against six accused persons, one of the dead, regarding recovery of Hexacopter with UBGL rounds and Magnetic Bombs near Dhalli area in Kathua district in May last year. The charge-sheet was filed before the NIA Special Court Jammu against six accused persons under section 120B, […]
Snow, rains lash JK, MeT rules heavy snowfall in next few days
Srinagar, Jan 13: Snow and rains lashed most places of Kashmir Valley including Srinagar this morning but weather department here ruled out possibility of any major snowfall in next few days. A meteorological department official here said that snowfall started at most places including Srinagar, Ganderbal, Budgam, Bandipora, Baramulla, Kupwara, Pulwama, Shopian, Anantnag, Kulgam in […]
ATM guard found dead in Soura Srinagar
Srinagar, Jan 13: A guard at an ATM booth in Soura area of Srinagar was found dead on Friday, official sources said. They said the guard, identified as Mohammad Muzaffar Kakroo son of Abdul Kahliq Kakroo, a resident of Amdakadal Lalbazar, was found unconscious inside the ATM booth of HDFC Bank in Soura. “He was […]
Qazigund-Baramulla train derails near Budgam, services to Baramuulla stopped
Srinagar, Jan 13: In a first incident of its kind in Kashmir Valley, an engine of a train derailed near Mazhama in central Kashmir’s Budgam district but there were no immediate reports of anyone getting hurt in the incident, officials said. They said the incident occurred this morning amid snowfall. “What led to the incident […]
India logs 174 Covid cases in a day, active caseload declines by 52
New Delhi, Jan 13 (PTI) India’s tally of COVID-19 cases rose by 174 in a day while the active caseload declined to 2,257, according to Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. The total number of Covid cases recorded in India so far was 4.46 while the death toll was 5,30,725 with two more fatalities […]
Storms, tornadoes slam US South, killing at least 7 people
Selma (US), Jan 13 (AP) A giant, swirling storm system billowing across the South killed at least six people in central Alabama and another in Georgia and knocked out power to tens of thousands on Thursday, while a tornado spawned by the system shredded the walls of homes, toppled roofs and uprooted trees in Selma. […]
Former JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav no more, PM Modi, Bihar Dy CM express condolences
New Delhi, Jan 13 (PTI) Veteran politician and former JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav died on Thursday at a private hospital in Gurugram, family sources said. He was 75. He is survived by his wife, a daughter and a son. A statement from the Fortis Memorial Research Institute said Yadav was brought to the emergency ward […]