Baisaran Valley, Pahalgam NEW DELHI: After the United States designated The Resistance Front (TRF), a Pakistan-backed proxy of Lashkar-e-Tayyiba and the group behind the April 22 Pahalgam massacre that killed 26 civilians, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), China responded by condemning the attack and urging stronger regional cooperation against terrorism.China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Lin…
Pakistan on Thursday suffered the humiliation of having its latest terror avatar, The Resistance Front (TRF), responsible for the Pahalgam massacre, being designated a Foreign Terrorist Organisation by the US state department. TRF was also termed a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist” in concurrence with the US treasury department. In a statement, secretary of state Marco…
KOLKATA: PM Modi’s second rally in seven weeks in West Bengal, in the industrial township of Durgapur Friday, started with a “Jai Ma Kali, Jai Ma Durga” homage to the state’s two biggest Hindu deities. He then took Trinamool’s campaign for the 2026 assembly polls head-on, vowing that “infiltrators will be investigated as per provisions…
MIRA/BHAYANDaR: MNS chief Raj Thackeray on Friday said if Hindi was made mandatory for Classes 1 to 5 in schools in Maharashtra, his party will “shut down schools”. Speaking at a rally in Mira Bhayandar, he referred to CM Devendra Fadnavis’s latest reported statement that the three-language policy will be implemented in the state. Earlier…
NEW DELHI: A father’s fight for the dignity of his daughter, who has 65% intellectual disability, which made the court of the chief commissioner for persons with disabilities (CCPD) issue directives to remedy the situation, has led to the Indian Railways replacing the use of “mental retardation” with “intellectual disability” on railway concession certificates. A…
KOCHI: Bitra Island, one of the 10 inhabited isles in the Lakshadweep archipelago, is set to be taken over by govt for defence purposes. There are 105 families on the island and many have opposed the move.Lakshadweep revenue department has issued a notification, dated July 11, for a social impact assessment (SIA). It stated that…
2 months after Sindoor, Pak’s Rahim Yar Khan base still shut NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s Rahim Yar Khan airbase, which was hit by Indian missiles during Operation Sindoor over two months ago, is still not operational, an indication of the extent of damage the strategic military installation suffered. Pakistan airport authority is learnt to have issued…
NEW DELHI: The ministry of rural development (MoRD) has asked states to take immediate corrective action and bolster monitoring of the National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS) for MGNREGA, saying that several instances have come to its notice about the system for capturing daily attendance and work site photographs being “misused or manipulated”.The ministry has also…
VADODARA: A private tuition teacher was sentenced to jail for six months and fined Rs 1 lakh for meting out corporal punishment to a 15-year-old Class 10 student, leaving the boy with severe ear injuries. A JMFC court in Vadodara passed the order Thursday.The teacher, Jasbirsinh Chauhan, ran a coaching centre. As per complaint filed…
NEW DELHI: The road transport ministry will soon start ranking states on parameters of ‘ease of land acquisition’ as delay in getting the required land remains the biggest roadblock for national highway and expressway projects. This is aimed at fixing delays during the pre-construction and the project execution stages.Ranking of states will also help the…
