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Applicable from April 1 this year, the hike will make power 25 paise expensive per unit Patiala : The Punjab government has hiked the electricity duty by 2% for all categories of consumers in rural areas of the state, making power 25 paise more expensive per unit. The rate has …

Donald Trump features on TIME’S cover yet again. This time, his photo is juxtaposed over that of a crying 2-year-old to highlight the issue of child separation at the US-Mexico border. Donald Trump has repeatedly made it to the cover of TIME Magazine in past years. A few have been …

Saifuddin Soz, Union Minister during UPA I, also acknowledges that independence for Kashmir is not possible. New Delhi: Veteran Congress leader and former Union Minister Saifuddin Soz has once again sparked a major controversy by saying that former Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf was correct in assessing that given a choice, …

Security forces and at least three terrorists exchanged gunfire after the latter were pinned down in Anantnag’s Srigufwara area. Jammu and Kashmir DGP SP Vaid has said that the two terrorists gunned down in an encounter in Anantnag on Friday morning belonged to terrorist organisation Islamic State. Security forces had …

The CBI has booked Sengar on charges of being involved in a gang-rape of a teenaged woman and framing her father in an Arms Act. New Delhi/Lucknow: Kuldeep Singh Sengar, the main accused in the Unnao gang-rape case, will be produced in court on Friday alongwith another accused Shashi Singh. …

Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday said that the ruling BJP government had created an “honest and transparent” system to make India “future-ready”. LONDON: Finance Minister Piyush Goyal has expressed confidence that it was “not impossible at all” for India to achieve a double-digit growth rate given the country’s demographic …

Khalid Hussain Ahead of the Amarnath Yatra, the central government has sent a team of National Security Guards (NSG) to Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir to deal with any terror-related incident. Sources told Zee News that commandos of the NSG would be deputed across Srinagar. According to sources, the commandos …

The groups have been promoting and encouraging terrorist acts on the Indian interests, noted the Home Ministry. The Union Home Ministry has banned terror outfit Al Qaida in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) and all its subsidiary groups under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. A notification in this regard was issued by the …

Sukhpal Khaira said the attack on the MLA had exposed the Amarinder government for its failure to control illegal mining in the state. Chandigarh : The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday demanded a court-monitored Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry into the assault on Rupnagar MLA Amarjit Singh Sandoa …

The two-month long pilgrimage to the 3,880 metre high cave shrine of Amarnath will commence on June 28. Jammu: Ahead of this year’s Amarnath yatra, the security forces have been strengthened across the International Border (IB) and the Line of Control (LoC) to neutralize any attempt of infiltration by terrorists. …