NEW DELHI: A massive fire engulfed a four-storey commercial building in Mundka in west Delhi on Friday, killing at least 27 people and leaving dozens injured. There were about 200 people in the building when the fire broke out and the toll is likely to go up. High drama played out in the congested area … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday refused further postponement of NEET-PG, slated for May 21 for admission to PG medical courses, saying any further delay in holding the test would lead to lack of availability of full strength of resident doctors in hospitals, impeding patient care facilities. A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud … Read more
NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR: A combined team of J&K police and Army gunned down two Pakistani terrorists of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Friday, and officers said those two had killed Kashmiri Pandit clerk Rahul Bhat at Chadoora in Budgam the day before with the help of a local terrorist. Kashmir range IGP Vijay Kumar … Read more
CHANDIGARH/MOHALI: Following the arrest of six people, Punjab police have named Canada-based gangster Lakhbir Singh alias Landa as the key conspirator of the rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) attack on the building housing the Punjab police intelligence headquarters on May 9. Punjab DGP V K Bhawra told the media on Friday that Lakhbir arranged an RPG, AK-47 … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday commuted death sentence of a convict, who had raped and killed eight year old daughter of his cousin in 2014 in Madhya Pradesh, to life imprisonment and said that the manner in which crime was committed was diabolical and gruesome but it was not one falling in the … Read more
JAMMU: Four people were killed and 20 others injured when a passenger bus caught fire in Katra area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district on Friday, officials said. According to the officials, the bus, on its way to Jammu from Katra, caught fire near Nomai, about 3 kilometers from Katra. Katra is the base camp … Read more
NEW DELHI: Congress began its Chintan Shivir event in Udaipur on Friday to brainstorm over revamping party’s organisational structure and emphasised that ‘one party, one ticket’ proposal will be widely discussed by the top brass during the 3-day long event. Chintan Shivir is being held in the backdrop of the party’s drubbing in the elections … Read more
SRINAGAR: Terrorists killed a Kashmiri Pandit employee of the revenue department in his chair at the tehsil office in Chadoora, Budgam district, in a targeted attack on Thursday. Clerk Rahul Bhatt (35) was shot dead by two terrorists wielding pistols. Eyewitnesses said he was shot thrice. “One bullet hit him in the right side of … Read more
NEW DELHI: Amid an ongoing dispute between India and the World Health Organization, PM Narendra Modi on Thursday called for reforming the UN agency and streamlining its approval process for vaccines and therapeutics to ensure stability of global supply chain. “WHO must be reformed and strengthened to build a more resilient global health security architecture. … Read more
Chief election commissioner Sushil Chandra, who successfully oversaw Covid-safe polls in five states, and also decided on the new J&K constituency map as a member of the Delimitation Commission, spoke to Bharti Jain on a wide range of issues ahead of hanging up his boots. Excerpts from the interview:In terms of Covid-safe strategy, how were … Read more