NEW DELHI: Private fuel retailers have started rationing diesel sales at their outlets amid a surge in global crude prices, driven by supply constraints caused by the ongoing West Asia conflict. However, state-owned oil marketing companies Indian Oil, HPCL and BPCL confirmed there was no such restriction at their outlets.The impact is limited, as the…
It would not be a fallacious metaphor if it is said that since the umpire is picked by the captain of one side … and his team wins, even if the decisions taken by such umpire are correct, it has the patina of suspicion: Justice Dipankar Datta NEW DELHI: Deliberating on the validity of the…
SRINAGAR: Tap water existing only on paper, people in some areas still having to hire horses for “transporting drinking water to their houses”, water pipes abandoned and littered around at some places are some of the damning observations in the report by a J&K assembly committee that was formed to probe alleged irregularities in the…
JAMMU: Two policemen were found dead in a car under suspicious circumstances in Batote tehsil of J&K’s Ramban district Tuesday evening.“Locals spotted them lying unconscious and rushed them to the district hospital, where doctors declared head constable Farid Ahmed and constable Muhammad Yaqoob dead,” an official said.Police have launched an investigation to find the cause…
| TNNJammu: A joint police team from Jammu has arrested three suspected members of Khauf gang, a Jammu-based criminal syndicate, in Delhi. The trio includes Karanjit Singh alias Gugga, a murder accused wanted in 13 FIRs, who escaped a juvenile observation home in RS Pura along with two Pakistani inmates in Feb.Addressing reporters Wednesday, SSP…
SRINAGAR: J&K CM Omar Abdullah said Wednesday his elected govt had no role in deciding which books are banned or withdrawn from libraries, distancing his administration from the removal of 4,249 books after a screening of more than 21 lakh volumes across the Union territory over the past two months.“I have my own views on…
Srinagar: Ladakh LG VK Saxena approved Wednesday withdrawal of cases against 20 of the 81 people who faced criminal charges for “rioting and arson” after violent statehood protests in Leh last Sept 24 that left four people dead in police firing and wounded nearly 90.“The cases have been withdrawn under section 360 of BNSS on…
NEW DELHI: Only two women have been decorated till date with Ashoka Chakra, India’s highest peacetime gallantry award, and one of them received it posthumously for the CRPF. Not only this, Kamlesh Kumari, the CRPF constable who was the first to sound an alert when a Jaish-e-Mohammad suicide squad stormed into Parliament premises in a…
NEW DELHI: In a move that will help govt job aspirants to centrally manage their applications and schedule for recruitment examinations conducted by different agencies like UPSC, Staff Selection Commission, Railway Recruitment Board etc and even state govt recruitment boards etc, the department of personnel and training (DoPT) is planning a unified portal that shall…
Giani Kuldip Singh Gargajj AMRITSAR: The officiating Jathedar of Akal Takht and Jathedar of Takht Sri Kesgarh Sahib, Giani Kuldip Singh Gargajj, wrote a letter to Pakistan’s Punjab chief minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif, asking for the protection and preservation of Sikh historical heritage sites in Lahore’s Walled City, particularly Lal Khooh, Kattari Chandu, associated with…