From a Yoga guru to a saint to an accused -- Anand Giri's life has been a roller-coaster ride.Now in police custody for allegedly abetting the suicide of his mentor Mahant Narendra Giri, not many are surprised with what has happened to Anand Giri -- once...

“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline and effort”.This was the mantra followed by cyclist Adil Teli, 23-year-old youth from Narbal, Budgam, who pedaled from...

From farmer protests to the CAA, India's Covid response and the challenges of the second wave, India's skirmishes with China to the Balakot strike, "The Midway Battle" (Bloomsbury) by Gautam Chintamani takes a broad look at the challenges and triumphs of...

The Saudi-led coalition intervened in the imminent round of military conflict as tensions between local Yemeni rivals continued to escalate over the control of the country's oil-rich province of Shabwa, a government official said.Tensions escalated between...

Former Union minister Rajeev Shukla has accused the Central government of selling the nation in the name of monetisation scheme and said if the BJP government is not stopped, it shall soon sell Jaipur's Hawa Mahal and Amer Fort too."They will sell the heritage...

A ball of hair, weighing about two kilograms, was taken out through surgery from the stomach of a 17-year-old girl.A team of doctors at Lucknow's Balrampur hospital achieved this feat on Thursday.The girl from Balrampur district had approached the hospital...

Until last year, China had only 16 known silos for its latest-generation inter-continental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and scarcely 200 warheads, according to the American Department of Defence.Now, satellite imagery has revealed that in the desert of Gansu...

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra hopped from 10 Janpath, residence of party president Sonia Gandhi to 12 Tughlak Road, residence of Rahul Gandhi on Friday during the meeting with Bhupesh Baghel. At the end of the three-hour meet, it's status quo...

Prominent leader of the G-23 group in the Congress, Manish Tewari is upset over the party's silence on Punjab Congress President Navjot Singh Sidhu, who has used threatening language against the party.Sources close to Tewari said that last year in August when...

Nearly one lakh families in the 280-square-kilometre Jharia coalfield region of Jharkhand continue to live dangerously. An underground fire in Indias largest coal reserve, raging since 1916, has caused the earth to sink and render buildings unsafe. Even the...

Two donor families showcased exemplary magnanimity amid the tragedy of losing their loved ones and kindled hope in critical eight patients with the transplantation of four kidneys and four corneas at the PGI Hospital here, doctors said on Friday."We are...

The killing of Abbas Sheikh of Kulgam, the founder chief of 'The Resistance Front' (TRF), along with Central Kashmirs dreaded terrorist Saquib Manzoor Dar, in a surgical strike in the interior of Srinagar on Monday, is rated as the most spectacular achievement...

The over 600 year old temple at Shital Nath Ashram Sabha in the heart of J&K's capital city Srinagar is not just a place of worship, it is the symbol of Kashmir's socio-cultural history with an intellectual import far beyond religious and political loyalties.Burnt...

The ruling BJP and opposition Congress are at loggerheads over a statement issued by the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) executive chairman R. Dhruvanarayana that "RSS is the real version of Taliban". BJP has announced that the party workers...

A parallel IFFCO Chowk flyover on the Delhi-Jaipur Expressway was closed for traffic (from Delhi towards Gurugram) after a portion of its retaining wall collapsed due to damage to a sewer line running right below it.The incident took place on Sunday. Soon...

On a day when the entire country is celebrating 'Raksha Bandhan', there are some villages in the state where the festival is considered taboo for various reasons.In Satha Chaurasi, a cluster of about 60 villages in Hapur district, people have not celebrated...

A youth in Bangladesh's Joypurhat on Friday showed great presence of mind to flag down an approaching train and prevent a major accident after finding the rail line broken, officials said.The incident was reported from Panchbibi upazila of the district...

The Counter Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) wing of the Jammu and Kashmir Police has cracked a racket of terror funding through admission of the Kashmiri students in Pakistans medical and engineering college.With the arrest of six persons, including a militant-turned-separatist...

After a third renal transplant surgery, a 41-year-old resident of Chennai now has five kidney's in his body and is doing well.The patient, who underwent a third renal transplant surgery at the Madras Mission Hospital, earlier had two transplanted kidneys in...

Establishing with observations that the Pensilungpa Glacier located in Zanskar, Ladakh, is retreating due to an increase in the temperature and decrease in precipitation during winters, a study shows how it is possible that the precipitation of summer periods at...

While cloudbursts and flash floods in recent years have become a regular feature in the hill state of Himachal Pradesh, the loss of life caused by natural calamities can be mainly attributed to the increasing human interference, particularly in eco-sensitive...

A living testimony to the famous saying that age is just a number, Kunwarpratap Singh who is just 3 and half year old has secured his names in India Book of Records, International Book of Records and selected in Child Prodigy Magazine for his sharpest...

Besides Delhi-based Kashmiri journalists and a prominent civil society activist critical of official policy towards Jammu and Kashmir, more than 25 people from the Kashmir Valley were selected as potential targets of intrusive surveillance between 2017 and mid-2019...

The maker of the powerful spy software allegedly used to hack the phones of various people around the globe says blaming the company is like "criticising a car manufacturer when a drunk driver crashes", the BBC reported.A NSO spokesperson told BBC: "If I...

India's first ever death due to H5N1 virus, which is also known as 'Avian Influenza' or 'Bird Flu' at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi on Tuesday, that of an 11-year-old boy, has focused the medical experts' attention on this serious...

Islamabad is planning to go ahead with its plan of extending the alternate western corridor route of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) in spite of suffering a major setback due to the continued attacks on Chinese workers...

A Hyderabad-based businessman on Monday donated a golden sword 'Suryakathari', worth Rs 1 crore to Lord Venkateswara Swamy, TTD officials said."Hyderabad-based businessman M.S. Prasad has donated a Suryakathari (sword) to Venkateswara Swamy at Tirumala,"...

By anointing Navjot Singh Sidhu as the Punjab PCC chief even after stiff opposition from Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, Sonia Gandhi has subtly sent out a message to chief ministers rein themselves in.Congress insiders say that months of negotiation with...

Saadath Mohi-ud-din is the CEO and Founder of Kashmir's first Podcast App"Aao Unhe Yaad Karai-Waliv Tem Karhoukh Yaad" in which Kalam of Kashmiri Sufi Saints are being Podcasted Internationally to revive the Kashmiri Sufi literature and language. Saadath Mohi-ud-din...

In Haryana, often girls grow up in negative environments, learn difficult life lessons and go through society's destructive self-talk. Eventually they start buying into the notion that not very much is possible and that they should settle and lower their...

You must be feeling the pain of rising fuel prices after it hit the century mark across the country last month.But, the rise has not been sudden and the pain has been consistent throughout the last financial year and this year too, taking the pump prices...

One of the strongest weopon in the world is pen by which you can revolutionize the whole world. As we all know Kashmir is blessed by many writers and authors and one of them is 11 class student Nasir Roshan khan author columnist from Nowshera area of North...

A female resident doctor of the Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow was Sunday airlifted to the KIMS Hospital Secunderabad here for lung transplant.Dr Sharda Suman, a postgraduate resident at RMLIMS's Gynaecology Department, had contracted...

Just a day before the annual Rath Yatra here, internationally acclaimed sand artist Padma Shri Sudarsan Pattanaik has attempted to create the world's biggest sand art of chariot at the Puri beach.He created 3D sand art of Lord Jagannath's chariot (Nandighosa...

Women have taken up guns in northern and central Afghanistan, marching in the streets in their hundreds and sharing pictures of themselves with assault rifles on social media in a show of defiance as Taliban militants make sweeping gains nationwide, The Guardian...

Fidji Simo, Vice President and Head of the Facebook app which reaches billions of people every month, has quit the social network and is joining online grocery leader Instacart as its CEO effective August 2, ahead of its IPO. Over the last decade at Facebook,...

An old sign board, hung outside an old dilapidated building in uptown Koker Bazaar market of Srinagar city, has brought back memories of a famous Kashmiri family and a loving father who was proud of his daughters.'Javed Sheikh & daughters, Koker Bazar,...

A Covid victim's body has been found to be lying in the mortuary for more than 75 days now in the Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Medical College (LLRMMC) in Meerut, because his wife could not pay Rs 15,000.The victim, Naresh, 29, died of Covid on April 15.His...

Virasat-e-Khalsa, the landmark museum showcasing heritage and culture of Punjab at Sri Anandpur Sahib has accomplished a rare achievement by bagging the top state energy conservation award for the third year in succession. The award has been announced by Punjab Energy...

Saharanpur, a district mainly known for its hand carved furniture, has now become famous for something else -- a unique mango tree that has 121 varieties of fruits growing on it.Unbelievable though it may sound, this mango tree is in the Company Bagh area and is...

In a significant achievement, Maharashtra's longest and widest road tunnel saw the light of day on the upcoming "Hindu Hridaysamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Maharashtra Samruddhi Mahamarg", or the Greenfield project of Mumbai-Nagpur Super Communication Expressway,...

After attending the recent all-party meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, two former chief ministers of the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir, Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti stood miles apart.Omar Abdullah candidly admitted...

The International Indian School- Abu Dhabi, which has 60 per cent Indian students besides students from 24 other countries, wrote itself into the Guinness record book for making the largest medal.Speaking to IANS, school principal Beno Kurien said this achievement...

Security agencies were put on high alert in border areas of Punjab, mainly the Pathankot airbase, on Sunday after two explosions occurred at the Air Force Station in Jammu.Security was stepped up, particularly in border districts of Pathankot and Gurdaspur, including...

The influence of Wahhabism has changed the nature of insurgency in Kashmir.During the last 10-15 years, the Ahle-Hadith (Followers of Wahhabism) controlled mosques have doubled from 1,000 to 2,000.The funding of these mosques is lavish so that they look...

Running through time, the British-era 39-km Parwanoo-Solan highway, later connected with the Himachal Pradesh capital, was finally inaugurated virtually on Thursday by Union Minister Nitin Gadkari after much delays largely owing to landslips from the highly...

Nearly two years after the revocation of J&K's special status, Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, is all set to chair the All Party Meeting of J&K leaders in New Delhi. Kashmir based politicians, who remained in power for many years and had opposed the...

Mainstream political leaders who are part of the Peoples alliance for Gupkar declaration (PAGD), said on Tuesday that they will be attending the all party meeting called by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 24.The announcement was made by Dr Abdullah after the...

The virtually defunct alliance of some Kashmir-based mainstream political parties, which has been deserted by two key constituents and has met only once in the last six months, would be deciding in Srinagar on Tuesday whether to attend or boycott the Prime...

For the first time after the June 2018 breakdown of the PDP-BJP government and imposition of the Governor's/President's rule in Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has invited the Union Territory's mainstream politicians for a meeting at his...

A rescue team of forest and police officials on Wednesday started operation to save a wild elephant which had fallen into a well in a private property near Kothamangalam about 70 kms from here.The incident was first noticed on Wednesday morning when locals...

Aimed at saving lives in low resource areas and during transit, the nation's first device has been developed as a substitute for the Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) machine which functions even without electricity.Named 'Jivan Vayu' by its developer,...

The 135-year-old Nizam era Warangal Central Jail in Telangana became history with the authorities demolishing the prison structures to build a multi super-specialty hospital.The demolition work, which was taken up on Sunday on a massive scale, was almost...

The relatives of a man, who died due to snakebite in Bihar's Bhagalpur district, dumped his body into the Ganga on Sunday, despite objections of the local residents. The locals made video clips of the incident, which occurred in Kahalgaon block under Bhagalpur....

As much as 60,000 hectares of Basmati agricultural land will be converted into a more productive one as the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) administration has decided to provide good quality seeds at cheaper rates to around 7.5 lakh farmers in the Union Territory.In...

With rumours becoming rife over New Delhi planning 'something big' in J&K, top sources told IANS on Wednesday that the focus of the central government is on two important issues: whether the suspended Amarnath Yatra can be resumed and whether assembly...

Pentagon has created the world's largest clandestine force in the past 10 years, which has carried out the very "nefarious" operations the US itself repeatedly condemns, according to a media report.The Newsweek magazine's exclusive report, titled "Inside the...

In a major organisational reshuffle, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) has elevated Lok Sabha MP from Diamond Harbour Abhishek Banerjee, nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to the post of party’s national general secretary, and actor-turned-politician...

A massive water-filled sinkhole which opened up for unknown reasons in a field in central Mexico is getting bigger, local authorities said.The sinkhole, which was just five metres in diameter when it was first discovered in the village of Santa Maria Zacatepec...

On a warm morning, Rakesh Singh walks up a jagged valley bristled with stones, carrying up a 'kuppa' (a spherical vessel) full of water on his head. It was only 8 a.m., but the sun is already blazing. As sweat trickles down his forehead, the young farmer,...