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SRINAGAR: The Union Territory of Ladakh will now have a hill development council in all seven districts, govt announced Monday, stressing that the move was aimed at strengthening grassroots governance.Ladakh chief secretary Asish Kundra said at a presser in Leh that section 3(1) of the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) Act already provides for…

File photo: Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah SRINAGAR/JAMMU: BJP served a Rs 100-crore defamation notice on J&K CM Omar Abdullah on Monday over his allegation that a party functionary tried to poach one of his National Conference MLAs from Jammu by offering up to Rs 30 crore, a ministerial berth and restoration of…

JAMMU: At least 18 pilgrims in a Pahalgam-bound Amarnath Yatra convoy were injured in a multi-vehicle collision involving two SRTC buses, a car, and a private bus in J&K’s Ramban district on Monday morning. The pile-up temporarily affected vehicular movement on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, officials said.The accident occurred at Langar Point in Chanderkote around…

JAMMU: A court in Jammu remanded Monday three arrested publishers to 10 days’ police custody in a case linked to two books allegedly carrying separatist and anti-national content that were supplied to govt school libraries in J&K.Inderpaul of Jammu-based Oberoi Book Service and Amardeep Singh and Girish Arora of Noida-based Dominant Publishers were taken into…

File photo: Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah SRINAGAR: J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah’s remarks referring to US President Donald Trump in his speech on Sunday while seeking restoration of statehood to J&K and his response on Monday to a tweet falsely attributed to Trump hasn’t gone down well with BJP, which accused him…

Mehbooba Mufti offers rose petals in tribute to martyrs at her party office (Picture credit: AP) SRINAGAR: The lieutenant governor’s administration on Monday imposed restrictions in parts of Srinagar to prevent political figures from assembling at the Martyrs’ Graveyard in old Srinagar.CM Omar Abdullah and National Conference functionaries, including his father Farooq Abdullah, paid homage…

NEW DELHI: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Dalvir Singh Kala, a close aide of party chief Sukhbir Singh Badal, was shot at and injured by an unidentified motorcycle-borne assailant in Punjab’s Mansa district on Monday evening, police said.The incident took place in Bareta town when Kala, a former Zila Parishad member, was preparing to leave…

Bodies of 15 Indians killed in Vietnam boat tragedy arrive in Mumbai NEW DELHI: A flight carrying the bodies of 15 Indian nationals who were killed in the Vietnam boat tragedy landed at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport on Monday. The remains were flown from Ho Chi Minh City on a Vietnam Airlines flight,…

Isro accomplishes 3 key qualification tests for crew module systems for Gaganyaan mission NEW DELHI: With preparations for India’s maiden human spaceflight in full swing, Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has successfully accomplished three major qualification tests for crew module (CM) systems for the Gaganyaan mission. Before the final manned mission, Isro will conduct two…

Ladakh’s Chief Secretary, Ashish Kundra, has announced that the UTA will constitute an Autonomous Hill Development Council in each of the seven districts. Ladakh’s chief secretary, Ashish Kundra, has announced at a press conference in Leh that the Union Territory administration will constitute an Autonomous Hill Development Council in each of the seven districts. He…