NEW DELHI: The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday denied that there was any proposal or discussion about the Mamata Banerjee led party merging with the Congress at a meeting between leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi and TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday.The meeting between Rahul and Abhishek at 10, Janpath came a day after…

The government condemned a US attack on a commercial vessel off the coast of Oman on Wednesday that left 3 Indian crew members missing, while also officially lodging a protest with the US embassy here. There were 24 Indian seafarers onboard the Palau-flagged Settebello, which was struck by precision munitions while transiting the Gulf of…

SRINAGAR: Hurriyat Conference chairman and Kashmir’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Wednesday described the situation in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK), where more than 20 people have been killed in clashes between police and protesters, as “deeply disturbing”, and urged the authorities there to show restraint.2 soldiers killed in ‘accidental blast’ near LoC in Uri2 soldiers…

SRINAGAR: Two soldiers attached to a unit deployed in J&K’s Uri sector, close to the LoC and about 100km north of Srinagar, were fatally wounded Tuesday afternoon in what the Army described as “an accidental blast”.Arjun Jadhav and Vikram Balakrishna, both from Maharashtra, were taken to the Army’s 92 Base Hospital in Srinagar but couldn’t…