A large number of pilgrims have shown interest in visiting the Amarnath cave shrine in Jammu and Kashmir, notwithstanding the continuing unrest in the Kashmir Valley, officials said. The number of people who have enrolled with the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board for the annual pilgrimage, which will begin on June 29, is almost the same as the last year, they ...

The Indian Government has lodged a strong protest with Canada over the presence of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a Khalistan event in Toronto, where separatist elements were felicitated. “We have taken up such issues in the past with the government of Canada, and in this particular instance, without getting into details, I can tell you the practice has not ...

A ban on the Uttar Pradesh Nirman Nigam, ending of 1 per cent cess levied on petrol and diesel, equipping PDS shops with point-of-sale (PoS) machines and granting one-time relaxation to businessmen on pending VAT cases (three years) were some of the decisions taken by the state Cabinet yesterday. Briefing mediapersons about the Cabinet decisions, Uttarakhand Cabinet minister Madan Kaushik, ...

Decks are being cleared for the Srinagar Medical College in Pauri district of Garhwal to be handed over to the Indian Army. A team under Major General DS Bhakuni from Army Medical Corps from Central Command will be reaching Srinagar on May 14 for a two-day visit to take stock of the situation, prior to deciding on the takeover. The ...

Hamirpur: A prominent BJP leader from Hamirpur, the home district of former Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, yesterday joined the Congress. Vinod Thakur joined the party at a public meeting here in the presence of Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh. Thakur hit out at Dhumal for ignoring genuine party workers and only “favouring his sons and his relatives”. He alleged that ...

 Mohit Sharma bowled one of best final over under pressure with Kings XI Punjab living to fight another day edging out Mumbai Indians by 7 runs in a high- scoring IPL thriller keeping their play-off chances alive. Put into bat, Kings XI Punjab piled up a mammoth 230 for 3 in 20 overs riding on Wriddhiman Saha’s belliegerent unbeaten 93 ...

With the mercury soaring in Dehradun, the common people, particularly the school children, suffered a lot on the roads as traffic came to a standstill at important crossings with thousands of Congress workers staging rallies to mark the formal assumption of office by the newly appointed Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee chief Pritam Singh here on Thursday. The procession accompanying Singh ...

Newly appointed president of the UK PCC and Chakrata MLA Pritam Singh has categorically said that his main emphasis to revive the party and also lambasted the Bharatiya Janata Party governments at the Centre and State. The PCC chief exhorted the Congress workers to work towards the revival of the Congress party in Uttarakhand on formally assuming charge of his ...

-In an important decision taken during the cabinet meeting on Thursday, the Uttarakhand government has decided not to give any fresh work to Uttar Pradesh Rajya Nirman Nigam (UPRNN) and to have all the works having been executed in the recent past or being now executed thoroughly reviewed. In addition, the cabinet has authorised the planning department to do scrutiny ...

The Supreme Court today commenced its historic hearing on a clutch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the practice of triple talaq and nikah halala among Muslims, saying it would first determine whether the practice is fundamental to Islam. A five-judge constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar, however, made it clear that the issue of polygamy ...