Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Sunday said there will be no compromise on corruption, and sought time for taking action against it. “It has just been eight days, give us some time. We will not spare anyone who is corrupt,” Kejriwal told reporters. “There is no question of compromising on corruption, I will put my […]
At minus 12.4 degrees Celsius, Pahalgam hill station was the coldest town in Kashmir Sunday. The present cold wave conditions would ease a bit during the next 24 hours, the Met Office has forecast. The minimum temperature was 12.4 degrees Celsius below the freezing point in Pahalgam Sunday – coldest in the Kashmir Valley. It […]
Only light motor vehicles would be allowed to move on the Jammu-Srinagar highway Sunday because a portion of it caved in, traffic authorities said. A portion of the road in Chenani area of Jammu region caved in Saturday. The damaged area has been restored for light vehicular traffic, a senior traffic official told IANS. He […]
The Himachal Pradesh government has decided to continue its construction ban in 17 green belts of the town, an official said Sunday. “The cabinet last evening (Saturday) decided to continue with the ban on construction in the 17 green belts falling within the Shimla Municipal Corporation limits,” a government spokesperson told IANS. He said the […]
The Border Security Force (BSF) will be entrusted the task of guarding the India-Myanmar border later this year, the paramilitary forces’s chief said Saturday. “From this year itself, we will start guarding the 1,624-km-long India-Myanmar border thar passes through the states of Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh,” BSF Director General Subhash Joshi told media […]
The rescue teams Sunday continued to rummage through the debris of an under-construction five-storeyed building, which collapsed Saturday afternoon at Canacona, 80 km from here, killing 14 onsite labourers. Police said a portion of the building, Ruby Residency, located in the Chawdi ward of Canacona, collapsed burying labourers working at the site. While nine labourers […]
Days after clashes between the Karbi and Naga militants led to killing of four Naga villagers, Nagaland Police Saturday said they have discovered a mass grave containing nine bodies – with gunshot wounds – near the state’s commercial hub Dimapur. One of the nine bodies recovered from the grave found Friday night was identified as […]
Senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh Saturday demanded that Darjeeling be accorded the status of a union territory. Jaswant Singh, the MP from Darjeeling, said the residents of the district are “in no way Bengalis” and the authorities in Delhi and Kolkata must take cognisance of the fact. “It is very important for the authorities in […]
A complaint was lodged with police here Saturday against a MP from Telangana for threatening to shoot Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy’s helicopter if he visited Karimnagar district. Mala Mahanadu president Karam Shivaji lodged a complaint against Ponnam Prabhakar at S. R. Nagar police station in Hyderabad. Shivaji is also leader of […]
A day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said it will be “disastrous for the country” to have Narendra Modi at the helm, veteran BJP leader Jaswant Singh Saturday criticised him for his “uncharacteristically sharp” remarks. “The language which he employed was uncharacteristically sharp. I am saddened by it,” Jaswant Singh said on the sidelines of […]