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Corrupt are abusing, threatening me: Modi

Corruption takes away rights of poor and middle class: PM

03 Apr 2024 1:39 AM

Security personnel deployed in a sensitive area, a day after violence in Uttarakhand's Haldwani over the demolition of an 'illegally built' madrasa, in Kanpur, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. (PTI Photo)

Eviction Drive: Haldwani Remains Tense

The Nainital district administration on Friday claimed that the mob unrest was a pre-planned move by the rioters

10 Feb 2024 1:07 AM

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami being greeted by BJP leaders after the state Assembly passed the Uniform Civil Code Bill, at the party office, in Dehradun, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. (PTI Photo)

Uttarakhand first to pass UCCbill

The bill will now be sent to Uttarakhand governor Lt, Gen. Gurmit Singh and President Murmu for their assent, after which it will become law

08 Feb 2024 1:36 AM

That snag was set right earlier in the day and the 25-tonne auger machine was pressed into drilling through the rubble. (AFP)

Drilling at Silkyara tunnel halts again

Workers remain trapped, 2nd setback in 2 days

25 Nov 2023 2:03 AM

NDRF personnel prepare to enter the Silkyara Tunnel during the rescue operation of 41 workers trapped inside the tunnel for 10 days, in Uttarkashi district, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Tunnel Rescue in Last Stage, Workers’ Evacuation Today

Once the pipe, which is a little under a metre wide, is inserted, workers can crawl out through it

23 Nov 2023 1:21 AM

Drilling equipment being airlifted by the IAF's C-130 J aircraft to the tunnel-collape site for a rescue operation in Uttarakhand's Dharasu. (PTI Photo)

Uttarkashi: Drilling Machine Airlifted to Help Tunnel Collapse Victims

The new machine is being put into service amid apprehension by workers at the site about the progress of the multi-agency rescue operations

16 Nov 2023 12:58 AM

The future of Ladakh

Union home minister Rajnath Singh paid a belated two-day visit to Ladakh after last month’s much-publicised all-party delegation’s trip to Jammu and Kashmir.

11 Oct 2016 2:16 AM

China’s border tactics unchanged

In July 1952, the Intelligence Bureau sent New Delhi a worrying report about the Garhwal-Tibet border; after explaining that the border in this area could “only be crossed through Mana and Niti Valley

11 Aug 2016 11:12 PM

A worrying scenario at Ladakh border

Nubra constituency in Ladakh shares its borders with both China and Pakistan. The charming valley, partially opened to tourism, is one of the most strategic spots of India’s northern borders.

19 Jun 2016 11:05 PM

A road to the border

In India, for any editor, there is a hierarchy in the news; I presume that the same is true the world over. This week the “royal visit” made it to the front page.

19 Apr 2016 6:47 AM

Election in exile

Tibetans refugees will elect their new Prime Minister on March 20.

10 Mar 2016 11:19 PM

French are coming to jet, set, go

India and France have always had a special relationship. I still remember freezing winter of 1982, when I travelled by train to Delhi from warm South India to meet President François Mitterrand.

21 Jan 2016 10:55 PM

It’s a horror!

Terrorist Massacre in Paris”, “The Horror”, “Carnage in Paris”, “The War in the Centre of Paris” — On Saturday morning I woke up to these headlines in the French press when all I wanted to know was th

14 Nov 2015 10:41 PM

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