First IIT outside India will be in Tanzania: MEA S Jaishankar
NEW DELHI: The first IIT campus outside India will come up in Tanzania’s Zanzibar, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed for setting up of a campus of IIT Madras in Zanzibar, which is a Tanzanian archipelago off the coast of East Africa. The agreement […]
US urges court to deny Tahawwur Rana’s petition against extradition to India
The Biden administration has urged a court in California to deny the writ of habeas corpus filed by Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana and reiterated that he be extradited to India where he is sought for his involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. A US court had approved Rana’s extradition to India in May. […]
PM Narendra Modi pays tributes to BJP ideologue Syama Prasad Mookerjee
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid his tributes to BJP’s founding ideologue Syama Prasad Mookerjee on his birth anniversary, saying he dedicated his life to the making of a strong India. In a tweet, Modi described Mookerjee, a minister in independent India’s first government, as a great nationalist thinker and educationist who […]
Samba police arrests 10 miscreants
SAMBA: Under the overall supervision of Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Samba, Benam Tosh, police has achieved yet another success by arresting 10 miscreants for committing physical assault on women thereby solving five cases in Samba district. The arrested miscreants have been identified as Ravi Kumar alias Raju son of Som Nath, Shubam Sharma alias Sathi, […]
Thief held with stolen gold
POONCH: The police arrested a thief and recovered some stolen goods from his possession in district Poonch. Official sources said that a written complaint was lodged at Police Station Poonch by one person namely, Inderjit Singh, son of Gurbachan Singh, resident of Ward 10, Poonch City, mentioning that he owns a jewellery shop in main […]
AJKPC protests, demands 2-yrs extension for existing Panchayats
JAMMU: All Jammu and Kashmir Panchayats Conference (AJKPC), the frontline body of elected Panchayat representatives, staged a strong demonstration and demanded that the Government should immediately extend the term of existing Panchayats in J&K by two years. The AJKPC leaders said the Government should conduct the polls for all three tiers of Panchayati Raj Institutions […]
Mehbooba spreading canards on land allotment scheme: Raina
JAMMU: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president J&K, Ravinder Raina has said that Prime Minister, Narendra Modi had announced a comprehensive land distribution scheme under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) which has provided land to lakhs of homeless people across the country. Addressing the media, Raina said the PMAY scheme, which has been implemented in […]
Civil-military conference held in Akhnoor
JAMMU: The Indian Army organised a conference here on Wednesday for leveraging border peoples’ responsibility toward security and nation-building and promote synergy and coordination between government officials, officials said. The “civil-military liaison” conference was organised at the military station in the Rakhmuthi area in the Akhnoor border belt. The conference was aimed at providing a […]
