New Delhi: Voting has concluded at Jawaharlal Nehru University for the 2024’25 Students’ Union elections with voter turnout estimated to be around 70 per cent. According to the JNU Students’ Union Election Committee, more than 69.6 per cent of students came out to vote. However, it was slightly down from 73 per cent recorded in…
Chandigarh: Pakistani nationals visiting India continued to return home through the Attari-Wagah land route in Punjab’s Amritsar on Friday, after the Centre set a 48-hour deadline for them to leave the country in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack. However, a few women married in Pakistan but possessing Indian passports alleged that they were…
Srinagar: The house of two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists, including the prime suspect of the Pahalgam terror attack, was destroyed when explosives believed to be stored there went off, officials said on Friday. The incidents took place during the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, when the residences of Aadil Hussain Thokar and Asif Sheikh were…
New Delhi: BJP’s Raja Iqbal Singh is elected Delhi’s new mayor on Friday (April 25) as the saffron party returned to power in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) after two years. Iqbal defeated Congress candidate Mandeep Singh to grab the top civic body post. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) boycotted the mayoral election. As…
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday refused to issue notice to Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi and others in the National Herald money laundering case for now. Special judge Vishal Gogne was acting on a plea of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which claimed cognisance of the complaint (ED’s equivalent to a chargesheet)…
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday called up the chief ministers of all the states and asked them to ensure that no Pakistani stays in India beyond the deadline set for leaving the country, sources said. India on Thursday announced revoking all visas issued to Pakistani nationals from April 27 and advised…
Bhubaneshwar: Odisha Police arrested three persons, including two serving Navy personnel in Khurda district, on the charge of extorting money from Agniveer aspirants during a recruitment drive in November 2024, an officer said on Friday. The arrested persons were identified as Satyam Chahar, currently working at INS Kesari, Andaman and Nicobar, Vinay Kumar Ray, presently…
Mumbai: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has said terrorists killed people in Pahalgam after asking about their religion, and Hindus would never do such a thing. “We hope for a strong response,” he said at a public event here on Thursday, three days after 26 people, most of them tourists, died in the terrorist attack in…
New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu will attend the state funeral of Pope Francis in Vatican City this week, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday. Murmu will pay a two-day visit to Vatican City beginning Friday. “President Droupadi Murmu will be visiting Vatican City on April 25 to 26 to attend the state…
New Delhi: India on Thursday informed Pakistan of its decision to keep the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance with immediate effect, saying Pakistan has breached the conditions of the treaty. Sustained cross-border terrorism by Pakistan targeting Jammu and Kashmir impedes India’s rights under the Indus Waters Treaty, India’s Secretary of Water Resources, Debashree Mukherjee, said…
