Jammu: The Amarnath Yatra was suspended from Jammu on Saturday amid inclement weather, a forecast of heavy rain over the next few days and a decline in pilgrim arrivals, officials said. No fresh batch of pilgrims was allowed to leave the Bhagwati Nagar base camp for the Kashmir Valley this morning, they said. Officials said…
United Nations: Expressing concern over the security situation in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), a spokesperson for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said there needs to be accountability for action taken against people engaging in peaceful protest. “The Secretary-General supports the work of his High Commissioner, and we certainly hope that the pleas made by Mr….
New Delhi: Former India opener Shikhar Dhawan expressed confidence in legendary cricketers and his former teammates Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli and backed them for the 2027 ODI World Cup, saying they will add value to the Indian squad and help them win the tournament. Now exclusively ODI players, Rohit and Kohli enjoyed a productive…
Washington: The US Senate voted overwhelmingly to approve a bill to punish Russia and key buyers of its petroleum products, such as China and India, claiming that such trade helps fuel the Ukraine war. The bill, renamed the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, was approved by the Senate by an…
Dehradun: The Uttarakhand Cabinet on Friday approved a proposal to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Uttar Pradesh government for extending the Ganga Expressway from Meerut to Haridwar. Briefing reporters after the Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, Director General of Information and Additional Secretary to the Chief Minister Banshidhar…
Raipur: The Centre has approved the establishment of an Electronics Manufacturing Cluster (EMC 2.0) in Chhattisgarh’s Rajnandgaon district, which is expected to attract investment of more than Rs 3,000 crore and generate nearly 9,000 direct and indirect employment opportunities, officials said on Friday. The approval by the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)…
Guwahati: The flood situation in Assam remained grim on Friday, with the death toll rising by one to 98, even as the number of affected districts declined to 13, and the number of people impacted by the deluge came down to 1.55 lakh, according to an official bulletin. The Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA)…
What if one of the oldest images of human relationships found in India quietly challenges one of our most familiar assumptions about women in the past? At Bhimbetka in Madhya Pradesh, among hundreds of prehistoric rock paintings preserved across natural shelters, there is an intriguing depiction of a man and a woman in which the…
Four weeks. That is all it took for the world’s best-performing stock market to become a bear market. In June 2026, the KOSPI crossed 9,300 for the first time in its history. South Korea had leapfrogged both India and the UK to become the sixth largest stock market on the planet. Then, within a month,…
Lakshmanrao Upadhyayula The venerable sages Śaunaka, the illustrious descendant of Gṛtsamada, and his son Kūrma, immersed themselves in profound contemplation and offered a sacred hymn to Varuṇa in the majestic Triṣṭubh metre of the Rigveda. In the Vedic vision, Varuṇa is not merely the lord of waters; he is the sovereign guardian of Ṛta—the cosmic…
