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

Indian-American attorney demands US Congressional fact-finding mission to Kashmir

3:23 pm October 30, 2019

Washington : An Indian-American attorney has urged US lawmakers to schedule a bipartisan Congressional fact-finding mission to Kashmir, a day after a delegation of the European Union (EU) parliamentarians visited the Valley for an on the ground assessment of the situation there. A delegation of 23 EU MPs arrived in Srinagar on Tuesday on a […]

President arrives in Odisha on a 3-day visit

President Kovind asks Jamia to explore possibility of adopting more villages

3:16 pm October 30, 2019

New Delhi : President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday asked the Jamia Millia Islamia university administration to explore the possibility of adopting more villages and guiding the students to undertake development initiatives. “Jamia has already adopted four villages as per the HRD Ministry’s scheme and the students contribute to these villages. I want you to […]

Smoky haze shrouds Delhi-NCR as air quality plunges to ‘severe’

11:10 pm October 29, 2019

New Delhi: The skies over the national capital were a smoky grey on Tuesday as the sun struggled to shine through the haze with the air quality deteriorating and slipping into the “severe” category in the city and the adjoining areas. At 8 pm, the city’s overall air quality index was 414 — worse than […]

Hectic parleys continued for the second consecutive day on Tuesday to find a lasting solution to the seven-decade-old insurgency problem in Nagaland

Stalemate in Naga talks prevails

9:45 pm October 29, 2019

New Delhi: Hectic parleys continued for the second consecutive day on Tuesday to find a lasting solution to the seven-decade-old insurgency problem in Nagaland with the Centre’s interlocutor and Governor R N Ravi holding separate talks with the NSCN-IM and a conglomerate of seven organisations, officials said. While the dialogue with the Naga National Political […]

CBI arrests Pailan Group CMD in Rs 574-crore ponzi scam

7:37 pm October 29, 2019

New Delhi: The CBI has arrested Apurba Kumar Saha, the chairman and managing director of Pailan Group, in connection with a Rs 574-crore ponzi scam case, officials said on Tuesday. The CBI had registered a case against the group in 2017 for allegedly luring investors by promising high returns on investments, they said. The group […]