Gulmarg’s gondola ride resumes after a month SRINAGAR: J&K CM Omar Abdullah Thursday re-opened Gulmarg’s popular gondola (cable car) ride that was closed on May 25 after a technical snag left more than 300 tourists stranded for nearly seven hours. Gulmarg’s gondola is among the world’s highest ropeways.Omar said operations were resumed after the manufacturer,…
Sharad Pawar has asserted that Nationalist Congress Party (SP) will remain united NEW DELHI: “None of our MPs will split. Not a single one of our MLAs is going anywhere … ” this was Nationalist Congress Party (SP) chief Sharad Pawar’s confident, if not bold, assertion that his party remains united and will not tread…
Sanjay Dina Patil issued apology and expressed regret over the altercation with journalist NEW DELHI: Hours after hurling abuse at journalists, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Dina Patil on Thursday issued an apology and expressed regret over the altercation.“Ever since I joined the Shiv Sena, I have been subjected to continuous humiliation. When journalist friends came…
NEW DELHI: The government has appointed senior IPS officer Mahesh Dixit as the next Director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), the country’s domestic intelligence agency, PTI reported on Thursday.The current IB chief, Tapan Deka, was appointed to the post in June 2022 and has since received two one-year extensions, in June 2024 and June 2025.(Developing…
Netra AEW&C uses the Brazilian Embraer EMB-145 airframe as its platform and on which is mounted an active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar in its dorsal fin. NEW DELHI: The indigenously-developed Netra Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) system, which is India’s specialised “eye in the sky”, achieved a big milestone on Thursday when the…
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday accused Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government of “protecting big fish” after an FIR was registered against eight persons over the alleged embezzlement of donations at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.In a social media post on X, Akhilesh alleged that all the evidence may have been cleaned…
Sonam Wangchuk in Geneva, Switzerland (Image courtesy: X) NEW DELHI: Activist Sonam Wangchuk on Thursday said the government has two more days to accept at least one of his two demands — fixing accountability in the NEET paper leak case and addressing environmental and cultural issues concerning his native Ladakh — failing which he will…
Swapan Dasgupta said the documents would explain how the state accumulated its debt burden NEW DELHI: The West Bengal government will publish department-wise white papers outlining alleged irregularities, incomplete projects and financial mismanagement under the previous Trinamool Congress administration, finance minister Swapan Dasgupta told the Assembly on Thursday.Responding to the debate on the state budget,…
Around fifty years ago, students at a government engineering college in Ahmedabad walked out over a steep hike in their monthly food bill. From an OPEC meeting in Vienna in October 1973 to the midnight broadcast on All India Radio on June 25, 1975, a chain of economic shock, popular fury, political mobilisation, and institutional…
The revised fee structure was notified through the Passports (Amendment) Rules, 2026 that replaces Schedule IV of the Passports Rules, 1980 NEW DELHI: The Centre has announced an increase in passport and related travel document fees, with the revised rates set to come into effect from July 1, according to a notification issued by the…
