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A terrorist has been killed in an overnight gunfight with security forces in Sopore area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district, a police official said Wednesday. The exchange of fire began during a search operation launched by security forces Tuesday evening after they received information that terrorists were present there, the official said. He said the cordon was strengthened to ...

A Delhi court Friday granted bail to AAP leaders Atishi and others in a defamation case filed by the BJP against them for their remarks over deletion of voters’ names from electoral rolls in the city. AAP’s Rajya Sabha member Sushil Kumar Gupta, MLA Manoj Kumar were also granted relief on a personal bond of Rs 10,000 each after the ...

It was a warm Tuesday morning in the national capital, with partly cloudy skies, as the minimum temperature settled one notch above the season’s average at 28.7 degrees Celsius. The maximum temperature is expected to hover around 39 degrees Celsius and there are chances of rain or thunderstorm in the later part of the day which may provide relief from ...

After successfully running the Electricity Half and Water Waiver scheme, the Delhi Government is going to make women travel free in metro and government buses. That is, in the coming days, women will not have to take tickets to travel in metro and buses in Delhi. If there is no technical bottleneck, the plan will be implemented within six months. ...

The national capital Monday reeled under hot and dry weather conditions, with the maximum temperature crossing the 41-degree Celsius mark. The city recorded a high of 41.9 degrees Celsius, a notch above normal, and a low of 25.4 degrees Celsius, a MeT official said. Humidity levels oscillated between 16 and 62 per cent, he added. The mercury will continue its ...

The BJP which swept all the seven seats in Delhi, set new records in five constituencies where its candidates defeated their opponents with the highest margins ever. Parvesh Verma, the sitting MP from the West Delhi constituency, won a second term with a record-breaking margin of 5.78 lakh votes. The runner-up, Congress’s Mahabal Mishra, got 2,87,162 votes. Verma broke his ...

Two militants were killed Wednesday in an encounter with security forces in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. Acting on a credible input about presence of ultras in Gopalpora area of Kulgam, security forces launched a cordon and search operation, a police spokesman said. “During the search operation, the hiding terrorists fired on the search party. The fire ...

In the area of ​​Ballabhgarh police station in Sector 7, unknown person killed a female student who was alone at home by hitting her with a cricket bat on her head. She recently secured 85 percent marks in CBSE’s 12th examination. Now she was taking coaching of Civil Services Examination. The cause of the murder is not clear. Her dead ...

A teenaged boy was Friday apprehended at a metro station here for allegedly carrying five live bullets in his bag, officials said. The juvenile was held by the CISF personnel at Mayur Vihar Phase-I metro station around 4 pm after the baggage scanner detected the bullets, they said. The accused, a resident of Surajpur village in Noida, was then handed ...

Complaints about malfunctioning EVMs poured in from several places of the national capital on Sunday where voting is underway. Adarsh Gupta, a resident of Matia Mahal area, claimed that at polling booths 84, 85 and 86, electronic voting machines were not working in the morning. Aam Aadmi Party’s Malviya Nagar MLA Somnath Bharti alleged that EVMs at booths 116,117 and ...