One of the world's most challenging and a marvel of engineering motorways -- the Rohtang Pass highway tunnel -- in the Himalayas is strategic as it will bring the Indian Army with its T-90 tanks and infantry combat vehicles closer to the Line of Actual Control,...

Hyderabad added a new landmark on Friday with the opening of "extradosed" cable stayed bridge across Durgam Cheruvu lake in Hitec City, the information technology hub.Telangana's Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development K.T. Rama Rao, along...

Ahead of winter, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence has planned to flood Jammu and Kashmir with weapons to create unrest in the Valley, government sources said. To do so, ISI has procured a sizable number of Hexacopters from a Chinese firm associated with...

China is insisting that India vacates strategic heights on the south bank of Pangong Lake ahead of talks on disengagement on the LAC, top Indian Army sources said.During the Corps Commander-level talks, China told India that will not discuss disengagement...

From politicians to lawyers and activists, names of various prominent personalities have come up in the charge sheet filed by the Delhi Police in the Delhi riots case. This includes the name of Congress leader Salman Khurshid and advocate Prashant Bhushan.Their...

Top Indian and Chinese military commanders will meet on Monday at Moldo to discuss the border dispute, especially in the Pangong Lake area, in eastern Ladakh, sources said. This would be the sixth meeting between two military commanders in the last four...

Doctors in Mumbai have extracted a gigantic 11-kg tumour from the abdomen of a 55-year-old woman after a marathon nine-hour surgery.A team of medicos headed by oncologist Dr Tanveer A. Majeed, urologist Dr Santosh Palkar and Dr Shilpa Deshmukh performed the...

The world famous Chhota Imambara that is must on the itinerary of every visitor to Lucknow, has now been 'scarred' by the Lucknow Police.The police outpost built at the gate of Chhota Imambara has not only disturbed the facade of the monument but also is...

Despite the Indian and Chinese foreign ministers agreeing to reduce tensions along the disputed border, both the countries troops are in rifle range at four locations at Pangong Lake in Eastern Ladakh, a senior official in the security establishment said.Worryingly,...

Prominent organisations of displaced Kashmiri Pandits have urged the central government to consider their demand for return and settlement of the exiled community at one single place instead of 10 districts in the Kashmir Valley.In an official statement issued...

Not content with the two records she has set so far, including one Guinness record, ambidextrous teenager Aadi Swaroopa wants to set more records in diverse fields."As am multi-talented, I want to set national and world records in diverse areas like mimicry,...

Rural innovator Mandaji Narsimha Chary of Telangana has developed lux optimisation technology which when used in an ultraviolet box with filament-less UV-C light claims to kill SARS-CoV2: the virus which causes the Covid-19 pandemic.Tested by and validated...

Online fraudsters might have mastered the art of duping people with various new stratagems but their inability to communicate fluently in English has limited their reach to the Hindi-speaking belt. An analysis of complaints received on the National Cyber Crime...

China has mobilised thousands of soldiers, tanks and howitzers within rifle range of Indian Army deployment at Spanggur Gap in the southern part of Pangong Tso in eastern Ladakh, sources said, even as Indian troops are on high alert.The Chinese People's Liberation...

Casting aside politics over New Delh's plan to enlist five languages --Urdu, English, Kashmiri, Dogri and Hindi -- as official languages for Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) in place of Urdu, the Department of Hindi at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar, offers...

China has set up a military base near Finger 5, in the north bank of Pangong Lake, completely cutting off the Indian Army.The north bank of the lake is divided into 8 Fingers (fingers are mountain spurs jutting into a lake in military parlance) that are contested...

An eight-feet-long python was rescued from a waterlogged railway underpass in Dhana Shamsabad village in Mathura.The reptile was kept under observation for several hours and later released back into its natural habitat.Residents of the village were shocked...

As India dominates south of Pangong Lake in Eastern Ladakh, China has started fresh build up at Finger area north of the Lake, sources said on Wednesday.It started soon after the skirmish on the southern bank took place on September 7 where warning shots...

Indian and Chinese military representatives met on Wednesday to amicably de-escalate tension on the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh but the talks were "inconclusive". The militaries of both countries will again meet for further deliberations.The talks...

The Ministry of Tourism’s DekhoApnaDesh Webinar series titled “Punjab- A historic perspective” on 05th September 2020 took the participants on a journey through the history and prominent tourist places in the state with focus on Virasat-e- Khalsa Museum,...

Around 40 to 50 PLA soldiers, armed with spears and other sharp-edged weapons as well as guns, have come just a few metres from the Indian Army position on the heights north of Rezang La in eastern Ladakh, and are likely to make a fresh attempt to dislodge...

With heavy showers continuing its spell, slithery reptiles have been spotted seeking shelter in residential complexes in Agra, leaving the denizens in a state of panic.On Friday night, the Wildlife SOS Rapid Response Unit rescued a six-foot-long Indian rock...

Chandni Chowk is all set to change as shoppers will no longer be pushed around in the crowded narrow streets. They will now be able to shop in a relaxed way. One will be spared the agony of honking vehicles as the area will be a non-motorized vehicle zone from...

With the PUBG Mobile ban, the government on Wednesday delivered what many Indian parents had been waiting to hear for months now, while leaving their children shocked.Even before the government banned TikTok, along with 58 other Chinese apps in June, sporadic...

The mosque that is to be constructed in Dhannipur in Ayodhya, on the five-acre land given in lieu of the Babri mosque, will bridge the communal divide and showcase social harmony.S. M. Akhtar, a Lucknow architect-cum-town planner and founder dean, Faculty...

In yet another surgical strike on malicious Chinese apps, the Indian government on Wednesday banned 118 apps over national security concerns, including the immensely popular PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) Mobile, Baidu and couple of virtual private...

For the first time since the India-China skirmishes began at Ladakh earlier this year, the Indian Army is dominating strategic locations on the south bank of Pangong Lake, even as China enhanced deployment of troops close to the Thakung base in Indian territory...

In a bizarre incident, a teenager in an Uttar Pradesh village of Basti district claims to have been bitten by the same snake eight times in the past one month, though he miraculously managed to survive.Yashraj Mishra of Rampur village has been hospitalised...

The Indian and Chinese militaries began the third round of talks at Chushul on Tuesday to resolve the fresh skirmishes at Pangong Lake in Eastern Ladakh."A Brigade Commander-level talk started at 10 a.m. in Chushul on the Indian side," said a source.The...

Since it occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B), the Shia-dominated region of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan has altered its demography, resulting in the massive reduction of the Shia population from 80 to 39 per cent.In a recent study conducted...

Would the re-assertion on restoration of Pre-August 5,2019 status by mainstream political parties of Kashmir impede Delhis efforts to restore democracy in J&K?Almost all mainstream political parties of Kashmir including the National Conference (NC), Peoples...

Pakistan has purchased from China real time satellite data, comprising high definition video, optical and hyper spectral imagery, that also can provide it the precise position of Indian Army camps across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.Intelligence sources...

Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash, who emerged as world's fastest human computer by winning the Mental Calculation World Championship at Mind Sports Olympiad in London earlier this month, is all set to embark on a mission to eradicate mathematics phobia both in India and...

Intelligence agencies have issued an alert after information was received that secessionist group Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) has given a call for a 'Punjab Bandh' at the end of this month.The pro-Khalistan group, which was declared an "unlawful association" by the Ministry...

Around the same time that Turkey was converting the historic Chora church of Istanbul into a mosque, Pakistan demolished an old Hanuman temple in Lyari, Karachi. Also demolished were the homes of about 20 Hindu families that lived near the temple.After Hindus...

With the constant efforts and battle against all odds, the State government has been successful in conserving and rebounding Chamurthi horse breed which was among those horse breed that were in danger of becoming extinct few years back.The Chamurthi breed...

As the two floodgates of the rain-fed Sukhna Lake were opened here on Sunday for this first time this monsoon season, several low-lying villages downstream were inundated.Officials told IANS that two of the three floodgates of the lake were opened after...

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, doctors at a private hospital in Delhi successfully removed an ovarian tumour weighing 50 kgs from a 52-year-old woman.The woman Lakshmi (name changed), who is a local resident, had recently started experiencing difficulty in breathing,...

A KGBV (Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya) school building in Ruins and become a hub of Drug Abuse in South Kashmir's Mugalpora village of Pulwama district.Talking to 5 Dariya News A young and Renowed Social Activist Mudasir Ahmad Dar told, that KGBV govt...

A man in Madhya Pradesh's Dhar district has covered over 100 km on his bicycle to take his son to the examination centre.Shobharam, a labourer in Baidipura village, took his son Ashish to the examination centre -- located 105 km away -- on a bicycle. He...

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday carried out searches at 20 locations including Mumbai and Delhi in connection with a money laundering case against Tablighi Jamaat Markaz chief Maulana Saad and others, sources said.According to top ED sources,...

After 75-years of Subhas Chandra Bose's mysterious disappearance, the family members of India's freedom struggle icon on Tuesday demanded for renaming of the Eastern Command headquarters Fort William in Kolkata after Netaji."On the official day of his disappearance,...

A woman gave birth to quadruplets in her home in Bhadenwa village in Sitapur district on Independence Day.According to reports, Mausam Devi, developed labour pains early in the morning and delivered the babies before the ambulance could be called in.The...

Even as the nation celebrates its 74th Independence Day on Saturday, the descendants of the forgotten heroes of the freedom movement continue to live in pathetic conditions.Some of the descendants of our martyrs are reduced to performing menial jobs for paltry...

Last year while most people were still processing the ramifications of the revocation of special status to Jammu and Kashmir, hundreds of masked youth swarmed the streets in Anchar, a small neighbourhood in downtown Srinagar, waving Islamic flags and hurling...

Late on Tuesday night, a fishing trawler in the Arabian Sea accidentally netted a big catch around 40-50 kms off Colaba.A giant dotted whale shark got entangled in the fishing nets and desperately struggled to set itself free, but failed, said one of the...

With crisis still looming large in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, the Congress is now facing a tough time to contain the feud in Punjab where two Rajya Sabha MPs -- Partap Singh Bajwa and Shamsher Singh Dullo -- have openly targeted the state government led...

An eight-foot long Indian rock python was rescued by the Wildlife SOS Rapid Response Unit from a playground beside the Central Hindi Institute's residential hostel in Khandari, Agra. After being kept under observation for a few hours, the python was released...

After the completion of one year of the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu & Kashmir, active militancy is in its "lowest" phase in the erstwhile state in decades and all terror groups are "leaderless" due to the continuous anti-terror operations by the...

In a unique initiative to ensure the holistic development of the villages and to bring rural folk more close to nature, the Rural Development and Panchayat Department has come up with an innovative idea to raise 65 beautiful parks across the district under...

As the construction of the new Ram temple began with the performance of the bhumi pujan ceremony here on Wednesday, the Hindu saints who rallied in the holy town said that they were now looking forward to take up the issues of temples in Kashi and Mathura...

Rejecting Pakistan's efforts to create a false narrative about abrogation of Article 370, hundreds of Gujjars, Bakarwals and other Kashmiri sightseers from Kupwara, Tangdhar and Handwara on Wednesday celebrated Bangus Awaam Mela to comemorate the first anniversary...

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has said that the Babri Masjid will remain a mosque because once a mosque is established at a spot, it remains one till eternity.In a statement, the Board said this is what the Shariat also states.The statement...

The date August 5 will down in history as a momentous occasion when Prime Minister Narednra Modi reached the Ram Janmabhoomi site in Ayodhya to set the construction of the grand Ram temple in motion, a reality that was the political and socio-religious dream...

The creme de la creme of Indian politics was a part of the historic moment when the 'Bhumi Pujan' of the proposed Ram temple was performed in Ayodhya on Wednesday.Prime Minister Narendra Modi, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, UP Governor Anandiben Patel and chief...

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi lays the foundation stone of the Ram temple in Ayodhya at noon on Wednesday, a temple dedicated to demon king Ravan will also reverberate with cries of 'Jai Shri Ram'.The temple, in Bisrakh area, is dedicated to Ravan, the...

To preserve water resources in villages and alleviate rural distress amid lockdown, the Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh led state government has spent a whopping Rs. 3.40 Crore under a special drive to clean all 413 village ponds in the district.Divulging...

Kashmirs inaccessibility was a wake-up call for Indias then Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee. When he returned to New Delhi after visiting Kargil in July 1999, he remarked, "We have not attacked any country in our fifty years of independence, but we have...

Khawaja Farooq Renzushah has felicitated Sufi Scholar Jenab KHURSHID Dar sahib for the first time discovering underground Khankah of Kashmir in Shah Nigri Mawar HANDWARA forests. It is from the period from 1321 to 1370. It has seven rooms (khanas) underground...

When the entire country was busy remembering the brave soldiers on Kargil Vijay Diwas, a 25-year-old woman gave birth to a baby girl onboard an NDRF rescue boat in Bihar's flood-hit East Champaran district on Sunday afternoon during an evacuation operation.The...