The United States is pushing for a truce in Gaza by “sometime next week,” US President Donald Trump said Tuesday. The Republican leader was asked by reporters if a ceasefire in the devastating war between Israel and Palestinians could be in place before a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House,
A 22-year-old man was arrested last week for posing as a student and illegally residing at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-Bombay) campus for 14 days. Despite a lack of formal education, Bilal Ahmad Teli managed to enter the campus of the usually known as a high-security campus. The incident came to light
An Air India flight took off from Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport for Vienna on June 14. However, soon after takeoff, it lost altitude – the plane dropped 900 feet mid-air. Both pilots have now been off-rostered pending the outcome of the investigation, the airline said. The incident happened two days after an Air
Indian students who were evacuated from Iran as part of Operation Sindhu were stranded on the Pathankot highway for over two hours after a bus transporting them to Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar broke down five times, reported India Today. The bus, sent by the Jammu and Kashmir government, was transporting 14 girls to Srinagar after
Srinagar, June 21: Senior CPI(M) leader and MLA Kulgam, Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami has appealed to Union Home Minister Amit Shah to intervene on humanitarian grounds and facilitate bail for incarcerated separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah, citing his deteriorating health and advanced age. In a series of social media posts on Saturday, Tarigami highlighted Shah’s serious
Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Saturday called on the Centre to comment on the Israel-Palestine and Israel-Iran conflicts, saying India’s silence represents not just a loss of voice but also “a surrender of values”. In an article in ‘The Hindu’, Sonia Gandhi alleged that the Indian government was earlier silent on Israel’s offensive
National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Saturday said that his party would approach the Supreme Court if there was any further delay in the restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir. Abdullah told PTI after a meeting of party workers in the Kokernag area, “After the elections, people wanted their issues to be resolved immediately,
Rahul Gandhi of the Congress on Saturday accused the Election Commission of India of “deleting evidence” when it was required to “provide answers” after the poll panel instructed its officers to destroy CCTV camera, webcasting and video footage of the elections after 45 days. “Voter list? Will not give machine-readable format. CCTV footage? Hidden by
NEW DELHI: Operation Sindoor is the natural progression of the 2016 surgical strikes and the 2019 Balakot airstrikes in Pakistan, and it was conducted in a manner that forced Islamabad to ask for a ceasefire, defence minister Rajnath Singh said on Saturday, articulating India’s firm resolve to fight terrorism. “It was executed in such a way
SRINAGAR: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday said that the Cabinet Sub-Committee’s report on reservation has been accepted by the government and forwarded for necessary legal examination. He also asserted that Jammu and Kashmir’s water resources would be used for the benefit of its people and would not be diverted elsewhere. Speaking to media persons