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By Rajinder S. Taggar

By Ahmed Ali Fayyaz

By Santosh Ghimire

<br>Also called the Gwadar ko Haq do movement, its protagonist Maulana Hidayatur Rehman has resumed his agitation saying that the Balochistan government has not accepted the demands of the Baloch community. Around the same time last…

Jammu, Nov 8 (IANS) Four people were missing after their vehicle plunged into Chenab River in J&K's Doda district on Tuesday, officials said. "Four people are feared dead as the vehicle they were travelling in plunged into the Chenab…

New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) A 60-year-old ex-serviceman has gone missing while his family had received a threatening message on phone along with a picture of the banned Popular Front of India, as per their police complaint on Tuesday. Rajendra…

Silchar (Assam), Nov 8 (IANS) Six teenaged boys were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly gang-raping a minor girl in southern Assam's Karimganj, police said. Police said that the victim's family lodged a complaint on Monday that the…

<br>During the last few years, many women entrepreneurs have emerged from Jammu and Kashmir, especially the Kashmir Valley, who have received a lot of recognition at the local and national levels. A good example of this is Afshana…

Ranchi, Nov 8 (IANS) The crisis at Ranchi-based public sector establishment, Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC), seems far to be over as the company despite having orders worth Rs 1,500 crore from ISRO, the Ministry of Defence, Railways,…

Guwahati, Nov 8 (IANS) A 79.99 per cent voter turnout was recorded in Assam's Deori autonomous council elections on Tuesday, officials said. The election was held for 22 constituencies spread across six districts and four sub-divisions of…

Agartala/Aizawl, Nov 8 (IANS) Around 50 per cent out of the 21,703 eligible voters, displaced from Mizoram 25 years ago following ethnic troubles in the state, have been added to the electoral rolls in Tripura, officials said on Tuesday.…

New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) Union Road Transport and Highway Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday said that the economic reforms started by Manmohan Singh as the Finance Minister in 1991 gave a new direction to India as it ushered in a liberal…

Shimla, Nov 8 (IANS) Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur on Tuesday pushed a public transport bus that broke down on a highway, causing a traffic jam in Himachal Pradesh's Bilaspur. The Minister's convoy was also stuck…

In the past decades, many industries started to decline due to one or the other reason, but the present government has started paying renewed attention to the various industries in Jammu and Kashmir and for this, many emergency measures…

Guwahati, Nov 8 (IANS) Assam, like several other parts of the country, also witnessed the year's last lunar eclipse on Tuesday. In several institutes of the state, events were organised to observe the phases of the lunar eclipse. The lunar…

Guwahati, Nov 8 (IANS) Assam Government has built a 5,000 metric-tonne-capacity cold-storage facility at Chaygaon and a fruit-processing centre at the food-processing park at Satabari under Kamrup district which was inaugurated by the Chief…

New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) Delhi Lt. Governor, V.K. Saxena has sanctioned prosecution of two activists of "Youth Equality Foundation" and the "Aarakshan Virodhi Party" for insulting the Constitution at a protest on August 9, 2018, a source…

New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) Observing that activities near Rajasthan's Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve should not harm the wildlife, the National Green Tribunal has directed that a proposed musical event near the eco-sensitive zone be held only…