Cancellations hit Kashmir tourism
bySrinagar (IANS) The prevailing law and order situation has dealt a serious blow to tourism in Kashmir as hoteliers, travel agents and houseboat owners say…
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Hero to heroin: It’s a k/o for Vijender
byChandigarh (IANS) Till a week ago, international boxer Vijender Singh was seen in his native state of Haryana as a sports star, a youth icon…
Odisha minister resigns, daughter-in-law complains of harassment
byBhubaneswar (IANS) Odisha’s minister for housing and urban development, law, and information technology, Rahunath Mohanty, today resigned after his daughter-in-law accused him of torturing her…
Italian mayor offers to host fishermen’s children
byRome (IANS/AKI) The mayor of Taranto, home of one of the marines at the centre of a row with India over the killing of two…
Another suicide in Tihar
byNew Delhi (IANS) Three days after a Delhi gang-rape accused was found hanging inside Tihar Jail here, a 30-year-old female prisoner committed suicide Thursday afternoon…
‘Himachal police worked like Gestapo under BJP’
byShimla (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh today equated the state’s police during the previous BJP regime with Gestapo, the German state secret police…
Three top private banks accused of money laundering
byNew Delhi (IANS) Three top private banks have been accused of running a nationwide money laundering racket by an investigative news website and production house,…
Indefinite curfew in tense Kashmir Valley
bySrinagar, March 14 (IANS) An indefinite curfew was imposed in Srinagar and other major towns of the Kashmir Valley Thursday following the killing of a…
Govt, opposition put lid on phone tapping debate in Himachal house
byShimla: Troubled Pandora’s box thrown open over illegal phone tapping notwithstanding, the government and opposition conveniently decided to avoid a debate on the issue…
If found guilty in phone tapping case, hang me – Dhumal
byShimla: Boxed into a corner over the illegal phone tapping case, former chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal fended off questions from a pressing media…