JAMMU: Security forces recovered a suspected Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during a cordon-and-search operation in J&K’s Rajouri district, officials said Thursday.A joint team of the Army and J&K Police launched the operation on Wednesday, based on a tip-off about suspicious movement in the forested belt of Kallar in Thanamandi.The search party found the explosive —…
NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab on Thursday announced that it will launch a full-scale offensive against gangsters, modelled on its ongoing ‘Yudh Nashian Virudh’ anti-drug campaign. The announcement was made by AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann while meeting newly elected zila parishad and block…
Renowned Japanese scholar and linguist Professor Tomio Mizokami, Professor Emeritus at Osaka University, is widely regarded as one of the most influential cultural bridges between India and Japan, with a lifelong commitment to Indian languages, literature and education. His contribution was formally recognised in 2018, when he was conferred the Padma Shri, one of India’s…
NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah will on Friday virtually inaugurate the National IED Data Management System (NIDMS) — a platform for storing, collating and disseminating improvised explosive device-related data for use in post-blast investigations and analytics — at the National Security Guard (NSG) Garrison in Manesar near Gurugram. “NIDMS is a secure, national-level digital…
NEW DELHI: Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday accused the Centre of “continuously attempting to financially strangle” the state, further announcing a satyagraha protest on January 12 against the “economic blockade” .Speaking to the reporters, Vijayan said, “The Central Government is continuously attempting to financially strangle Kerala. Since 2017, the Centre has been implementing…
Q: How did this book come about? A: We all remember the lockdown… We had no idea when that would end. We really had no notion of what was going on. It was all completely unknown… My then publisher said to me, why don’t you write about what is around you, the flowers of the…
The Enforcement Directorate accused West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee of obstructing a money-laundering probe. Twelve suspended Congress corporators in Maharashtra’s Ambernath Municipal Council formally joined the BJP, altering local political equations. Bangladesh police arrested the prime accused in the killing of Hindu worker Dipu Chandra Das, marking a key breakthrough in a case linked…
The weapons and military units on display in China’s major parade (Image credit: AP) China, one of the world’s largest arms exporter, has endured a series of humiliating battlefield exposures that have shattered its image as a supplier of reliable defence systems. From Operation Sindoor‘s rout of Pakistani defenses to the swift US raid on…
Earlier, Banerjee rejected the allegations and accused the central agency of attempting to seize the TMC’s internal documents and election strategy (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate on Thursday accused West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee of obstructing an ongoing money-laundering investigation, claiming that search operations were conducted “in a peaceful and professional manner till…
BENGALURU: Space engineering firm Dhruva Space Thursday announced Polar Access-1 (PA-1), its most integrated launch programme so far, under which it will support 10 space missions serving multiple Indian states and two countries aboard Isro’s PSLV-DL-C62, scheduled for lift-off at 10.17 am on Jan 12.Billed as a structured pathway to Sun-Synchronous Orbit, PA-1 brings together…
