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New Delhi, January 28 Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah seeking his intervention in ensuring adequate security to the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Jammu and Kashmir. His letter to Shah comes after the Yatra was suspended for the afternoon session on Friday following a…

Dhanbad (Jharkhand), January 28 At least five people, including a doctor couple, were killed in a fire in a nursing home in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad on Saturday, an official said. The deceased include the medical establishment’s owner Dr Vikas Hazra (64), his wife Dr Prema Hazra (58), the owner’s nephew Sohan…

Sandeep DikshitNew Delhi, January 27India has issued a notice to Pakistan for the modification of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) due to its “intransigence” on resolving the disputes over the Kishenganga and Ratle hydroelectric projects (HEPs).Action follows Islamabad’s ‘intransigence’ over dispute redressal mechanismGiven 90 days to rectify material breachThe Need…

Mukesh Ranjan New Delhi, January 27 Security and intelligence agencies have flagged concern over the illegal arms market along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Most of the arms sourced from there are US-made and are being dropped with the help of drones on the Indian side in Jammu amp; Kashmir and…

New Delhi, January 27 The stock market tumbled on Friday due to an unfavourable research report about the Adani Group, whose firms alone have lost over Rs 4.17 lakh crore in market valuation. With a net worth of $96.6 billion, billionaire Gautam Adani is now the world’s seventh richest man,…

Satya Prakash New Delhi, January 27 As the Centre repeatedly questioned the Collegium system of appointing judges, former Supreme Court judge Rohinton Nariman on Friday said it was the bounden duty of the Government to accept and follow the Supreme Court’s verdicts on judicial appointments and the doctrine of basic…

New Delhi, January 27The Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways will invite expressions of interest (EOI) from interested players for a Rs 41,000 crore international transhipment port project at Great Nicobar Island in the Bay of Bengal.The ministry in a release on Friday said that the project is expected to…

New Delhi, January 27In 1937, a hydrogen-powered German airship flying into New Jersey caught fire and crashed, killing 35 passengers on board. It was sort of a man-made disaster as some 100 people were loaded on to a balloon filled with the most flammable material in the universe. The airship…

New Delhi, January 27 Delhi Police on Friday detained 24 students from the Delhi University’s Arts Faculty for planning to screen the controversial BBC documentary on the 2002 Godhra riots, a senior police official said. The action comes days after a similar ruckus at Jawaharlal Nehru University and Jamia Millia…

London, January 27A British Sikh engineer behind an energy-efficient manual washing machine for low-income groups around the world, inspired by his volunteering work in India, has won Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Points of Light Award.Navjot Sawhney, who set up his Washing Machine Project around four years ago, was honoured for…

Amritsar, January 27 Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal on Friday dedicated 400 new ‘Aam Aadmi’ clinics to the people of the state. The new clinics take the total number of the neighbourhood health centres in the state to 500. Speaking on the occasion, Kejriwal…

Jammu, January 27 Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today said that administration of Jammu and Kashmir failed to provide security to Bharat Jodo Yatra. Addressing a press conference at Khanabal in Anantnag, Gandhi said, “I got a rousing reception soon after I entered Kashmir. आज बड़ी संख्या में लोग यात्रा…

Phagwara, January 27 A shopkeeper was shot at by two unidentified motorcyclists, police said on Friday. Sanjay Sachdeva (34) was closing his shop in Ankhi Nagar when the incident occurred on Thursday night, SHO Amandeep Nahar said. The victim was rushed to the civil hospital and was later referred to…

Ottawa, January 27 The number of job vacancies across all sectors in Canada decreased by 20,700 to 850,300 in November 2022, down from the peak of more than 1 million recorded in May 2022, the national statistical agency said, Statistics Canada said on Thursday that job vacancies decreased in the…

Shuhadeep Choudhury New Delhi, January 27 Liberal investments in the Adani Group made allegedly by state entities like LIC, SBI and other public sector banks may have exposed the county’s financial system to heavy risks, the Congress on Friday said, adding that it “fully understands the close relationship between the…