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Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti Saturday expressed gratitude to the Chief Ministers of West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka for their "courageous and principled stand" against the Waqf Amendment Act. Mufti, a former Chief Minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu and...

New Delhi: Enforcement Directorate Saturday said it has served notices to take possession of immovable assets worth Rs 661 crore that it had attached as part of a money laundering probe linked to Congress-controlled National Herald newspaper and the Associated Journals Limited (AJL). The federal...

New Delhi: Extradited 26/11 terrorist Tahawwur Rana’s questioning by the NIA has revolved around extracting information from him about a key plotter from Dubai and a person who hosted and helped co-conspirator David Coleman Headley in Mumbai ahead of the 2008 attack, sources said Saturday....

New Delhi: Digital payments via Unified Payments Interface (UPI) service suffered a nationwide outage Saturday which affected millions of users. Digital services on several online payment platforms were disrupted, hindering local shopping, bill payments and business transactions. According to the outage tracking platform Down Detector,...

Kolkata: The Waqf (Amendment) Act will not be implemented in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said Saturday amid violent protests in the state, particularly in the Muslim-majority Murshidabad district. So far, 118 people have been arrested in connection with the violence that broke out...

Srinagar: A moderate-intensity earthquake with epicentre in Pakistan struck Jammu and Kashmir at around 1 pm Saturday, an official said. Tremors were felt in many parts of the Valley, but there were are no reports of loss of life or damage to property, he said....

New Delhi: For the first time, the Supreme Court has prescribed that the president should decide on the bills reserved for her consideration by the governor within a period of three months from the date on which such reference is received. Four days after the...

Bijapur: Two Naxalites were killed in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district Saturday morning, police said. A gunfight broke out in a forest in the Indravati National Park area around 9am, when a team of security personnel was out on an anti-Naxalite...

Jammu: An army Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) was killed in an encounter with terrorists along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Akhnoor sector, but thwarted their attempt to infiltrate into India from across the border, officials said Saturday. The terrorists are believed to have...