Air travel has become inclusive, affordable in India: PM Modi
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday highlighted the growth potential of the country’s aviation sector, saying air travel has become inclusive and affordable with the regional connectivity scheme as more people are travelling by air from smaller cities. Modi also told representatives of Asia Pacific countries that they could also study the success […]
India successfully flight tests surface-to-air missile
Balasore (Odisha): The Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Navy on Thursday successfully flight tested vertical launch short range surface-to-air missile from Chandipur, off Odisha coast, defence officials said here. The test was conducted around 3 pm from the integrated test range in Chandipur, they said. The flight test was carried out […]
Eastern Ladakh row: India, China agree to work with ‘urgency’ to realise complete disengagement
New Delhi: India and China on Thursday agreed to work with “urgency” and “redouble” their efforts to realise complete disengagement in remaining friction points in eastern Ladakh as NSA Ajit Doval held talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in St Petersburg with a focus on an early resolution of the lingering border standoff. Doval […]
We made some progress during India-China talks: EAM Jaishankar
Geneva: Roughly 75 per cent of the “disengagement problems” with China are sorted out but the bigger issue has been the increasing militarisation of the frontier, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday on the lingering border row in eastern Ladakh. In an interactive session at a think-tank in this Swiss city, Jaishankar said […]
Army Chief calls on Lt Guv
SRINAGAR: Chief of the Army Staff, General Upendra Dwivedi Thursday met Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, at Raj Bhawan, an official spokesman said here. He said that General Upendra Dwivedi was accompanied by Lieutenant General MV Suchindra Kumar, GOC-in-C Northern Command and Lieutenant General Rajiv Ghai, GOC 15 Corps. Various issues related to the security scenario […]
Properties of drug peddler’s worth over Rs 1 cr attached
Jammu: Properties of three alleged drug peddlers worth over Rs 1 crore were attached in Jammu district on Thursday, a police officer said. Two residential houses of Javed Ahmed, his son and Abdul Majeed alias Bhallu of Lower Ragoora (Dawara) were attached under Section 68(E)(F) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, the […]
Two JeM terrorists killed in gunfight with security forces in Udhampur
Jammu: Two terrorists affiliated with Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) outfit were killed in an ongoing operation in the upper reaches of Basantgarh in Udhampur district on Wednesday, officials said. They said bodies of the two terrorists, believed to be from Pakistan, along with an M-4 carbine, an AK assault rifle, a pistol and large quantity of ammunition […]
JK Assembly polls: BJP rebel leader files nomination papers from Udhampur East
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir BJP vice president Pawan Khajuria filed his nomination papers as an independent candidate from Udhampur East assembly segment on Wednesday, amid brewing unrest in the party over the distribution of tickets. Khajuria submitted his nomination papers at the end of his two-day ultimatum to the party leadership to change the official […]
Tribunal upholds ban on six J&K separatist groups
New Delhi: A judicial tribunal of the Delhi High Court has upheld the Centre’s ban on two factions of the separatist group Muslim Conference Jammu and Kashmir and four factions of another secessionist organisation, Jammu and Kashmir People’s League (JKPL), for threatening India’s integrity by promoting, aiding and abetting the secession of Jammu and Kashmir […]
BJP using those ‘released from jail’ as proxies: Farooq
Srinagar: National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Wednesday said the people of Jammu and Kashmir should unite to defeat the BJP and those who are “being released from jails” to take part in elections. Addressing an election rally, he said the alliance with the Congress was not easy but was necessary to save J-K’s identity, […]
