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Dharamsala, October 11 The Dhauladhar mountains overlooking the Kangra Valley on Tuesday received the first snow of the season. The mountains wore the white mantle as the higher reaches of the Dhauladhar ranges received snow heralding the winter. The snow also brought down temperatures in the region with people in…

New Delhi, October 11 Kashmiri separatist leader Altaf Ahmad Shah, the son-in-law of the late Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, died of cancer at the AIIMS here early Tuesday, days after he was taken to the hospital from the Tihar Jail on the orders of Delhi High Court. He…

Satya Prakash New Delhi, October 10 In an unprecedented display of transparency, the Supreme Court Collegium on Monday made public details of the recent controversy arising out of an objection raised by two Collegium members against the procedure adopted by CJI UU Lalit to consider four names for elevation…

New Delhi, October 10 Amid growing concern over hate speeches by politicians and religious leaders, the Supreme Court on Monday said such speeches needed to be stopped as they vitiated the country’s atmosphere. “You are correct that the entire atmosphere is getting sullied by these hate speecheshellip; it needs to…

New Delhi/Bern, October 10India has received the fourth set of Swiss bank account details of its nationals and organisations as part of an annual automatic information exchange under which Switzerland has shared particulars of nearly 34 lakh financial accounts with 101 countries.Officials said the new details shared with India pertain…

Gaurav Kanthwal Mohali, October 10 More than five months after the sensational RPG attack on the Punjab Police Intelligence Headquarters, police on Monday filed the chargesheet in a Mohali court. The 272-page chargesheet formally lays out the charges against seven of the 13 accused in the case. Photo…

Sanjay Yadav Gurugram, October 10 A JBT teacher working at Government Model Sanskriti Primary School, Suncity Colony, Sector-54, hired a proxy teacher to work in his place at the school. The CM flying squad on Monday along with police personnel and officials of the education department raided the school and…

New Delhi, October 10 The Election Commission on Monday allotted ‘flaming torch’ (mashaal) election symbol to the Uddhav Thackeray faction of Shiv Sena, rejecting their claim to the ‘Trishul’ citing religious connotation. In an order on the dispute in the Shiv Sena, the Election Commission allotted ‘ShivSena – Uddhav Balasaheb…

Moscow, October 10Concerned over the escalation of hostilities in Ukraine, India on Monday advised its citizens to avoid all non-essential travel to and within Ukraine and asked them to strictly follow the safety and security guidelines issued by the local authorities.The advisory comes hours after Russia carried out strikes against…

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, October 10 The death of 66 Gambian children potentially linked to contaminated cough syrups manufactured by Sonepat-based Maiden Pharmaceuticals has raised questions about the drug regulatory framework at home and the safety of manufacturing practices. According to the WHO alert, the cough syrups were contaminated with…

Rajneesh Lakhanpal Legal Correspondent Ludhiana, October 10 The Court of Additional Sessions Judge Raj Kumar Garg has sentenced an Akali leader and two dismissed cops to rigorous life imprisonment in the Jamalpur fake encounter case of two Dalit youths in 2014. Those sentenced include Akali leader Gurjeet Singh alias Saim,…

Itanagar, October 10Suspected NSCN-KYA militants gunned down a businessman in Longding district of Arunachal Pradesh, police said on Monday.Atar Singh Sharma, the businessman, who hailed from Haryana, was shot dead by a group of NSCN-KYA militants from point blank range around 5 pm on Sunday, Longding police station officer in-charge…

New Delhi, October 10 In an unprecedented development, the Supreme Court Collegium has made public the names of the two judges on the panel who objected to the method of “circulation” adopted for eliciting the views of its members on the appointment of judges to the apex court. In a…

Vijay Mohan Chandigarh, October 10 The number of IAF’s Mi-17 medium lift helicopters to be overhauled in the country has been enhanced over three times, prompting the Air Force to rope in the civilian aviation establishment for dealing with additional manpower requirements. “The overhaul task allotted by the Ministry of…

Stockholm, October 10 This year’s Nobel Prize in economic sciences has been awarded to the former chair of the US Federal Reserve, Ben S Bernanke, and two US-based economists, Douglas W Diamond and Philip H Dybvig, “for research on banks and financial crises.” The prize was announced Monday by the…