India-China hold 1st Corps Commander talks in eastern sector; ties improving NEW DELHI: The first-ever Corps Commander–level meeting between India and China in the eastern sector was a two-day engagement, marking a milestone in bilateral efforts to maintain peace along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).“The first highest military Corps Commander–level flag meeting took place…

SRINAGAR: MF Husain’s horses meant power. Flat, bold, Cubist, built for scale like the Bollywood billboards he once painted in Mumbai. Masood Hussain’s horse is painted on Pashmina and dyed in the wool — carrying the earliest Kashmiri poetry, passed down orally for 600 years before anyone wrote it down.This is a sharp turn from…

Village head’s appeal drove Ladakh LG’s initiative to tap 90 million litres of glacial water for irrigation SRINAGAR: Nearly 90 million litres of glacial water have started irrigating more than 1,000 acres of parched farmlands across 12 villages in Ladakh every day, thanks to a pioneering initiative by lieutenant governor (LG) V K Saxena last…

Ladakh’s tourist footfall continues rising SRINAGAR: Ladakh has recorded a sharp rise in tourist arrivals this year, with 4,05,085 visiting the Union Territory in the first eight months of 2026, exceeding the 3,35,872 tourists recorded for all of 2025. “In just eight months of 2026, the total tourist footfall has exceeded by 20.6% from the…

Expelled Bihar Congress functionaries protest outside party office, seek Rahul Gandhi meeting over state unit issues. NEW DELHI: A group of expelled Bihar Congress functionaries Tuesday protested in front of the party office here, and demanded a meeting with Rahul Gandhi so that they could “apprise” him of the realities of the state unit.The former…

NHRC has issued directions to Delhi chief secretary and chairperson of UGC NEW DELHI: Taking cognisance of the lack of adequate and affordable hostel facilities for students of the Delhi University, the National Human Rights Commission has issued directions to Delhi chief secretary and chairperson of the University Grants Commission to submit in consultation with…

Rajnath Singh became first Indian defence minister in nearly four decades to visit Sri Lanka for defence-level talks Defence minister Rajnath Singh said in Colombo on Tuesday that “India and Sri Lanka are close friends and India will always stand firmly with Sri Lanka whenever the island nation faces a crisis.”Rajnath, who is on a…