The Jammu and Kashmir government is likely to defer municipal elections from October to January 2019 but the Panchayat polls may go ahead as scheduled in November-December, informed sources said.
Kadaba: A man suffering from mental disorder brutally attacked his son with a sharp weapon and committed suicide by slitting his throat with a knife in Alankaru on Wednesday.
Former IAF chief Air Chief Marshal S.P. Tyagi and others were granted bail by a court here on Wednesday in a money laundering case related to the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal.
The Supreme Court has extended the house arrest for five rights activists till Monday, September 17 when it will hear a petition seeking their release.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Chief Secretaries of all the states, including Registrars General (RGs) of the High Courts, to furnish details of the criminal cases pending against the MPs and MLAs.
More than 1.5 million people have been asked to evacuate their homes along the Virginia, North and South Carolina coasts as Category 5 storm Hurricane Florence approaches, an official said.
Amid the rising clamour on the Rafale deal, the Indian Air Force Chief, Air Chief Marshal B.S. Dhanoa, on Wednesday said by acquiring the French fighters the IAF was strengthening its depleting fleet.
A report mentioning the spurt in the number of aged people by 2025 has been recently released. There has been a massive changeover in the ratio between young and aged people. China is now going through this phase. The main reason for this is to having clamped down ‘one child policy’. With this, the number of young people reduced in that country and the aged were in double numbers. Before the situation got out of hand, China went easy on that policy and encouraged couples to have more children.
Six persons were killed and several others were injured in a chemical tank blast in Bijnore district of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday, police said.
An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale shook Guwahati and its adjoining areas on Wednesday, the Met said. No damage was reported.
