Battling power cuts amid severe cold, Kashmiris fall back on kangris, hamams to keep warm

Srinagar: The residents of Kashmir are going back to traditional ways of coping with the intense cold wave conditions as frequent and unscheduled power cuts have rendered modern heating gadgets useless. Kashmir is witnessing Chilla-i-Kalan, the 40-day harshest winter period. Srinagar city witnessed the coldest night in 33 years as the minimum dipped to bone-chilling […]

India can never permit others to have veto on its choices: EAM Jaishankar

Mumbai: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said India can never permit others to have a veto on its choices and will do whatever is right in the national interest and for the global good without being intimidated to “conform”. In a video message for a function in Mumbai on Saturday, he said when India […]

Mohali building collapse: Body of man found, death toll climbs to two

Chandigarh: The death toll in the Mohali building collapse climbed to two on Sunday with the body of a man recovered from under the rubble, officials said. The multi-storey building collapsed on Saturday evening in Sohana village of Punjab’s Mohali district, with at least five people trapped in its rubble. One male body was recovered […]

Modi govt’s ‘calibrated erosion’ of EC’s integrity: Kharge on election rule

New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday hit out at the government for tweaking an election rule to prevent public inspection of certain electronic documents, alleging it is part of the Modi government’s “systematic conspiracy” to destroy the institutional integrity of the Election Commission. Kharge also said the Modi government’s “calibrated erosion” of the […]

Terror associate held in Bandipora

Srinagar: A terror associate was arrested with arms and ammunition in the Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, police said. A police official said a person was seen moving suspiciously by personnel at a ‘Naka’ at Nadihal area in the north Kashmir district this evening. And when he was challenged by the security […]