Police said that their team busted LeT logistics module JAMMU: Three over ground workers (OGWs) of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), arrested recently in Rajouri district, had been active for several years and facilitated the movement of multiple terror groups across Rajouri-Reasi in Jammu division through the Pir Panjal region up to Kashmir’s Shopian district, police said Friday.All…
TFC will now be used for border tourism SRINAGAR: A trade facilitation centre (TFC) at Salamabad in border town Uri, which once facilitated duty-free, cashless barter trade between J&K and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), will now be used for border tourism, ending speculation about resumption of trade through the route.A senior tourism department official confirmed the…
Shashi Tharoor acknowledges grammar error in PM Modi birthday wish NEW DELHI: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday acknowledged a grammatical error in his birthday greeting for Prime Minister Narendra Modi after an X user pointed out his mistake.Tharoor had extended his birthday wishes to Modi on Thursday. However, in his message, the Thiruvananthapuram MP…
NEW DELHI: There is a need to write the “intent” of policies, regulations and guidelines in brief while notifying them, a move that will bring clarity and communicate what it aims to achieve, suggested D Thara, secretary of newly created department of capital development under the housing and urban affairs ministry.Speaking at a conference of…
CHANDIGARH: Ending a prolonged standoff with state employees, the Bhagwant Mann government on Friday announced relief for around eight lakh employees and pensioners, increasing the Dearness Allowance (DA) by 8 per cent.The decision followed a meeting held here between chief minister Bhagwant Mann and representatives of employee and pensioners’ organisations.Ministers Aman Arora and Baljeet Kaur,…
NEW DELHI: The Congress and TMC on Friday mounted a joint attack on the ruling BJP following the arrest of Milan Pradhan, the Congress candidate for the upcoming Nandigram bypoll in West Bengal.Both parties pointed to two key factors surrounding Pradhan’s arrest: that it stemmed from an old case, and that it occurred just hours…
Sachin Pilot with Charanjit Singh Channi and Amrinder Singh Raja Warring during a protest to demand justice for the late Gulzar Singh in Chandigarh on Tuesday. NEW DELHI: The Congress in Punjab has finally hit the ground running. Sachin Pilot, who replaced Bhupesh Baghel as the party’s state in-charge, successfully navigated the state unit out…
Mamata Banerjee faction got ‘football player’ as its symbol. For 28 years, TMC has been Mamata Banerjee and Mamata Banerjee has been TMC in West Bengal; the two are almost synonymous with each other. And for voters, the political shorthand for Mamata Banerjee has been almost absurdly simple: two flowers on grass.Now, that shorthand has…
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Friday claimed that its candidate for the upcoming Nandigram assembly bypoll, Milan Pradhan, has been arrested, with the development coming hours after the TMC’s Mamata Banerjee faction extended its support to the Congress for the October 6 byelection.According to a senior leader of the Congress’ West Bengal unit, Pradhan was…
TMC to skip Nagaon Lok Sabha bypoll NEW DELHI: The Trinamool Congress‘ Assam unit has decided not to contest the upcoming Nagaon Lok Sabha bypoll in protest against the Election Commission‘s decision to freeze the party’s name and election symbol, the state convenor said.The party had earlier announced Abdul Salam as its candidate for the…
