Parliament on Tuesday approved a resolution abrogating special status to Jammu and Kashmir given under Article 370 of the Constitution. The resolution was passed by Lok Sabha with 351 members in support and 72 against it, while one member abstained. Rajya Sabha had adopted the resolution on Monday. The Parliament also approved bifurcation of Jammu […]
A wall collapse wounded some 20 candidates at Indian Air Force’s recruitment drive at the Punjab Armed Police ground here on Monday. Sources said that not only were candidates wounded in the wall collapse, but also that some of them got electric shocks when they came in contact with some loose electricity wires. The wounded […]
For many Kashmiris, the special status afforded to Jammu and Kashmir by Article 370 of the Indian constitution reflects the different means by which, and basis on which, the princely state became part of India in late 1947. It was the result of an accommodation all those years ago between the government of India’s first […]
जम्मू-कश्मीर से अनुच्छेद 370 हटाने को लेकर पंजाब यूनिवर्सिटी चंडीगढ़ में जमकर बवाल हुआ। छात्र संगठन आपस में भिड़ गए और उनमें हाथापाई हो गई। दरअसल, स्टूडेंट सेंटर पर एबीवीपी 370 हटाए जाने की खुशी में जश्न मना रही थी। वहीं, एसएफएस और अन्य छात्र संगठन विरोध प्रदर्शन कर रहे थे। देखते-देखते ही हंगाम हो […]
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday blamed the Akalis for “scuttling” the probe into three incidents of desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib and accused them of pressurising the CBI to file closure report in the investigations. During the Zero Hour on the third day of the Monsoon Session of the Punjab Assembly, he […]
The son of AAP leader and Lok Sabha candidate from West Delhi Balbir Singh Jakhar made sensational claims about his father and damaging allegations against AAP chief and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday, just a day before Delhi goes to polls. Jakhar’s son alleged that his father had paid Kejriwal Rs 6 crore to […]
Surrey/Brampton (May 9, 2019): The British Columbia Gurdwaras Council (BCGC) and Ontario Gurdwaras Committee (OGC) condemn the recent decision by the Supreme Court to transfer Jagtar Singh Johal’s and other Sikh political prisoners National Investigative Agency (NIA) cases to the Supreme Court in Delhi. Jagtar Singh, who went to India for his wedding, had a […]
Compelling new evidence has been collated of 8257 cases of enforced disappearances and fake encounters following a 7-year investigation by the Punjab Documentation and Advocacy Project [PDAP]. The killings which took place across Punjab from the 1980s to 1995 are released in the PDAP’s report “Identifying the Unidentified.” The investigation reveals thousands of previously unknown, […]
At least 30 people were killed and several others injured in two separate mass shootings within 24 hours in the United States, the latest in a string of mass shootings in America. Ten people, including the shooter, were killed and at least 16 others injured early on Sunday in Dayton’s Oregon district, a historic neighbourhood […]
A video of a 5-storey building cruising in the Yangtze river in China has gone viral and it is nothing like we have ever seen before. The now-viral video that was originally shot in November 2018, was recently tweeted again by a Twitter user, Massimo with the caption, “Things that happen in China. A five-story […]
Jennipha-Lauren Nielsen was live — at India in USA (Consulate General of India, San Francisco). #ConvictedRapist set free #india #WomensRights My attacker in India was convicted and sentenced for his crime when found guilty. Now due to the pervasive corruption he’s been given bail during his appeal on a crime he was convicted and sentenced […]
A student who plunged to her death from a plane in Madagascar is believed to have landed in a remote savanna filled with wild animals. Alana Cutland unbuckled her seatbelt and opened a door shortly after take-off, and then jumped out of the Cessna light aircraft despite the pilot and a second passenger’s desperate efforts […]
New Delhi: Senior BJP leader and former foreign minister Sushma Swaraj passed away a while ago at AIIMS on Tuesday. The BJP veteran, who suffered a massive heart attack, died at the age of 67. Her last Twitter post was about thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the government’s move on Kashmir stating that she […]
Per the dashcam footage by a Washington State Control patrol officer – looking like the film set of a Fast and Furious movie – a small aircraft had to conduct an emergency landing on a busy road in Washington state earlier this week (1 August). Reports state that the aircraft had been experiencing engine trouble […]
Kashmiri Pandits, displaced from the Valley in the 1990s, on Monday hailed the scrapping of Article 370 of the Constitution as a “historic event” and hoped it would pave the way for return to their homeland with honour and dignity. Global Kashmiri Pandit Diaspora (GKPD), a body representing the community across the world, said the […]
Rakhi Sawant has finally admitted to tying the knot with an NRI businessman. Earlier, pictures of Rakhi, wearing a bridal dress, surfaced on internet. The pictures sparked rumours that the reality show star has married an NRI. But Rakhi rubbished the rumours saying that it was for a bridal photoshoot. When IndiaToday.in quizzed Rakhi on […]
A 27-year-old man killed five members of his family here before ending his life, apparently because they were pressuring him to get married, police said on Saturday. Among those shot dead by Sandip Singh on Friday night at his house in Nathuwal Garbi village in Baghapurana subdivision are his grandmother, parents, sister and her daughter, […]
Restrictions were imposed in Srinagar district under Section 144 of the CrPC with effect from midnight. There would be no movement of public. There will be a complete bar on holding any kind of public meetings or rallies. Identity cards of “essential services officials” will be treated as movement passes wherever required. All educational institutions […]
Pooja Mishra is no doubt the most controversial queen in the television industry. She has beaten Rakhi Sawant, Poonam Pandey and other celebrities in creating controversies. These celebrities at least don’t give bashings to big actors to create controversies! But Pooja Mishra has crossed all her limits – from commoners to big celebrities, she hasn’t […]
In another Incident, A girl in her 20s was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a hotel room here on Saturday. The victim, identified as Amanjit Kaur of Fridkot Kotli village, whose burnt body was found from a hotel room situated in the North Estate area. After the initial investigation, the police suspected it to […]
Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal has claimed that there was large-scale misappropriation of MGNREGA funds in the Gidderbaha Assembly segment, presently being represented in the Vidhan Sabha by Amrinder Singh Raja Warring. In a statement issued here today, Harsimrat said a case of misappropriation of MGNREGA funds had come to light after she urged Union […]
