Day: January 20, 2021

Snow sculpting competition begins in Gulmarg

10:36 pm January 20, 2021

Srinagar: A four-day snow sculpting competition, aimed at providing a platform to budding artists in Kashmir, began on Wednesday in the famous skiing resort of Gulmarg. In the competition, organised by Department of Tourism, over 30 participants drawn from various districts of the Kashmir valley, both amateur and professional sculptures, are participating, an official spokesman […]

19-year-old student shot dead in Ambala City

10:30 pm January 20, 2021

Ambala: A 19-year-old student was shot dead in Ambala city by some unknown assailants, police said on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Ayan, a resident of Ranjit Nagar area of Ambala City. The student was found lying in a pool of blood around two hundred metres from his residence on Tuesday evening. After being […]

High-resolution cameras to check nuisance in Atal Tunnel

10:23 pm January 20, 2021

Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh Police has installed high-quality automatic number plate reader (ANPR) cameras in the Atal Tunnel in Rohtang following nuisance by some tourists in the underpass. Ten tourists from Delhi were arrested on December 24 and their cars impounded after they stopped inside the tunnel and danced, leading to a traffic jam. On […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

SC rejects pleas seeking review of 2018 Aadhaar verdict

8:47 pm January 20, 2021

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has dismissed a batch of pleas seeking review of its 2018 verdict which had upheld the Centre’s flagship Aadhaar scheme as constitutionally valid but struck down some of its provisions, including its linking with bank accounts, mobile phones and school admissions. A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Justice A M […]

Youth Cong workers hold protest against fuel price rise

8:36 pm January 20, 2021

New Delhi: Indian Youth Congress (IYC) activists staged a protest near the Petroleum Ministry here on Wednesday, against rising prices of petrol and diesel in the country. The protesters also took out a ‘Shav Yatra’ (funeral) of a bike, symbolising plight of the people due to high prices of petroleum products. Despite the “steep fall” […]