How China spy balloon over US adds tension ahead of talks in Beijing

How China spy balloon over US adds tension ahead of talks in Beijing

The Pentagon is tracking a Chinese surveillance balloon that lingered at high altitude over the western US, home to sensitive sites including nuclear-missile silos, injecting new strain into ties before a visit to Beijing by Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The Chinese balloon, first spotted earlier this week, was loitering over Montana — home to…

GK-2 M-block park to be developed as G-20 commemoration park
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GK-2 M-block park to be developed as G-20 commemoration park

In run up the series of G-20 meetings being hosted by Delhi this year, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi will set up a G-20 summit commemorative park in the heart of city near Greater Kailash-2 M-block market, senior officials aware of the matter said. An MCD official stated that the New Delhi Municipal Council had…

Chandigarh: Sector-53 housing scheme to be revived at lower rates

Chandigarh: Sector-53 housing scheme to be revived at lower rates

Working to create new affordable housing in the city, the Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) has decided to revive its Sector-53 general housing scheme that was scrapped in 2018 owing to poor response from public over steep prices. On Thursday, the CHB Board of Directors, at a meeting chaired by UT adviser-cum-CHB chairman Dharam Pal, approved…

Teacher-turned-LeT terrorist held for carrying out multiple IED blasts in Jammu: DGP Dilbag Singh
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Teacher-turned-LeT terrorist held for carrying out multiple IED blasts in Jammu: DGP Dilbag Singh

A government school teacher-turned- Lashkar-e-Taiba’s terrorist was arrested for allegedly carrying out multiple blasts, including one in a pilgrims’ bus in Katra and January 21 twin blasts in Narwal that left four dead and scores injured, said director general of police (DGP) Dilbag Singh on Thursday. The DGP identified the government teacher- turned-terrorist as Arif…

Eviction drive causing unrest among people in Jammu and Kashmir, Azad tells Amit Shah
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Eviction drive causing unrest among people in Jammu and Kashmir, Azad tells Amit Shah

The chairman of the Democratic Azad Party and former chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday called on home minister Amit Shah at Delhi and apprised the latter about serious unrest being caused among the people of Jammu and Kashmir due to eviction notices issued to them by the UT administration. “Met Union home minister…

Delhi’s air quality in moderate category; mercury expected to rise to 24°C

Delhi’s air quality in moderate category; mercury expected to rise to 24°C

The air quality remained in the moderate category on Friday morning as Delhi recorded a minimum temperature of 9.5°C while the mercury was expected to rise to around 24°C. According to the Central Pollution Control Board, the hourly air quality index (AQI) was 198 at 9am on Friday. On Thursday, the average 24-hour AQI was…

SC helps unite 20-year old’s unborn child with interested adoptive parents

SC helps unite 20-year old’s unborn child with interested adoptive parents

The Supreme Court on Thursday exercised its extraordinary constitutional powers to help a young woman who wished to abort her late-stage pregnancy by arranging for her delivery at AIIMS and directing the child to be given for adoption to a couple registered with government-run Central Adoption Resources Agency (CARA). The couple had expressed desire to…

SIA raids underway in Srinagar
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SIA raids underway in Srinagar

State Investigation Agency (SIA) raids were underway at multiple locations in Srinagar on Friday in connection with a militant funding case. During its investigations, the probe agency has so far attached over a dozen properties across the Kashmir Valley those were allegedly created out of militant funding or from where anti-national subversive activities were being…