03 February 2026
New Delhi:Incessant rainfall since around 3:30 am on Friday in Udhampur area of Jammu region triggered landslides and shooting stones leading to temporary closure of Jammu Srinagar national highway. A police official in Jammu said that no fresh batch of AmarnathYatris from Bhagwati Nagar Bade Camp left on Friday for Base camps on Kashmir.
New Delhi:US President Donald Trump's temporary ban on refugees and travelers from six mainly Muslim countries has come into effect, after the Supreme Court allowed it following a five month battle with rights groups. The Trump administration said, yesterday that the ban is necessary to block terrorists from entering the country.
New Delhi: The date of polling for the post of vice president will be announced today, according to the Election Commission.
The term of present incumbent Hamid Ansari, who has held the post for two consecutive terms, is coming to an end on August 10.
The electoral college, which elects the vice president, who is also the ex officio chairman of the RajyaSabha, consists of elected and nominated members of the RajyaSabha and the LokSabha. The total strength of the two Houses is 790, but there are some vacancies.
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress will ‘boycott’ the special sitting of Parliament that the government has called to roll out the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on the midnight of June 30
West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has said that her party has decided to "boycott" the special sitting of Parliament and called the implementation plan of GST a second "epic blunder" of the government after demonetisation.
New Delhi:In yet another audacious act, North Korea has threatened to "impose the death penalty" on the South's former president Park Geun-Hye for over an alleged plot to assassinate its leader Kim Jong-Un.
Park had "pushed forward" a supposed plan by Seoul's intelligence services to eliminate the North's leadership, Pyongyang's security ministry and prosecutors said in a statement carried by its official Korean Central News Agency.
