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Ambala City bus stand to be renamed after Sushma Swaraj

Swaraj was extraordinary woman, leader: UNGA President

3:07 pm August 7, 2019

United Nations: UN General Assembly President Maria Fernanda Espinosa has expressed condolences at the demise of India’s former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, describing her as an “extraordinary” woman and leader who devoted her life to public service. Swaraj passed away at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi on Tuesday […]

100 booked for violating Covid guidelines in J-K's Samba

Without phone lines, internet: voices from Kashmir incommunicado

11:46 pm August 6, 2019

New Delhi : Tourists and Kashmiri locals who reached Delhi on Tuesday appeared relieved at being out of the uncertainty sweeping the Valley but expressed their angst at the situation there, with some saying it is akin to the Stone Age without lines of communication. They also rued the heavy security deployment in the Valley […]

Ladakh MP gets PM’s praise for LS speech on Art 370

11:18 pm August 6, 2019

New Delhi: BJP member from Ladakh Jamyang Tsering Namagyan earned the praise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his speech in Lok Sabha on Tuesday on a motion to abrogate special status given to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 and bill to split the state into two Union Territories. Participating in the debate, Namgyan […]

PM Modi to chair meeting of CSIR society on Friday

Passage of JK bill momentous occasion, new dawn awaits: Modi

10:25 pm August 6, 2019

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday hailed the passage of bills on Jammu and Kashmir in Parliament as a “momentous occasion” in parliamentary democracy and said a new dawn awaits the state which is now free from the “shackles” of vested interest groups. “Together we are, together we shall rise and together we […]

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UK calls for calm as British MPs divided over Article 370 revocation

10:21 pm August 6, 2019

London: The UK government on Tuesday said that it was monitoring the situation in Kashmir closely and called for calm as the country’s parliamentarians echoed some of the wider divisions over the India’s decision to revoke Article 370 and bifurcate the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The Indian government on Monday revoked Article 370 which […]