The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed a recent University Grants Commission (UGC) regulation after various pleas were filed contending that the Commission adopted a non-inclusionary definition of caste-based discrimination and excluded certain categories from institutional protection.A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi issued notices to the Centre and the UGC on…
President Droupadi Murmu on Monday conferred India’s highest peacetime gallantry award, Ashoka Chakra, to Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who created history by becoming the first Indian to set foot on the International Space Station (ISS).The President presented the award to Shukla at the Republic Day celebrations at the Kartavya Path, the centrepiece boulevard of the…
President Droupadi Murmu will address the nation on Sunday on the eve of the Republic Day, her office has said.The address will be broadcast from 7 pm on the entire national network of Akashvani and telecast over all channels of Doordarshan in Hindi followed by the English version, it said on Saturday.The broadcast of the…
JAMMU, Jan 10: A suspicious pigeon was caught from a forward village near the Line of Control (LoC) in Akhnoor sector near here on Saturday, officials said.The pale grey pigeon with two black bars on each wing is carrying red and yellow rings in legs inscribed with ‘Rehmat Sarkar’ and ‘Rizwan 2025’ followed by certain…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said ‘Veer Baal Diwas’ is a day of reverence, dedicated to remembering the sacrifice of the brave Sahibzades, the sons of Sri Guru Gobind Singh.On the birth anniversary of Sri Guru Gobind Singh on January 9, 2022, the Prime Minister had announced that December 26 would be observed as…
In a major breakthrough in the Red Fort area car bomb blast case, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a Kashmiri resident who had conspired with the suicide bomber to carry out the terror attack which claimed 10 innocent lives and left around 25 others injured. Amir Rashid Ali, in whose name the car…
Srinagar, Nov 16: The sophisticated ‘white-collar’ terror module, spearheaded by a group of doctors recently busted by Jammu and Kashmir Police, had been actively scouting for a suicide bomber since last year, with key planner Dr Umar Nabi pushing the agenda, officials said on Sunday.Interrogation of an arrested co-accused was indicative that Umar, believed to…
In a bid to piece together the precise sequence of events before the blast near Red Fort, the investigators have prepared a detailed list of each vehicle that entered the nearby parking area where the exploded car was stationed for three hours, an official said on Saturday.They are tracking down the registration numbers of these…
SRINAGAR, Nov 11: Police on Tuesday took the mother of the man who was suspected to be driving the car that exploded near the Red Fort was called for a DNA test in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said here.“We have taken the mother of the suspect to collect DNA samples in order…
In an apparent attack at the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said important stanzas of the national song “Vande Mataram” were dropped in 1937 which sowed the seeds of partition and asserted that such a “divisive mindset” is still a challenge for the country.Modi made the comments while inaugurating the year-long commemoration of…
