PMO set for a shuffle, new faces likely
New Delhi, July 22: The Prime Minister's Office is headed for a makeover with senior IAS officer Pulok Chatterjee, a former private secretary to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, set to join it as secretary. Chatterjee, a 1974-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Officer of Uttar Pradesh More
Formal talks with ULFA soon: Gogoi
Guwahati, July 22: The much awaited formal peace talks with ULFA will be held soon with the Centre asking the Assam government to work out modalities to facilitate the parleys, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said today. "The Centre has given us the green signal to go ahead on how the talks should More
CIC directs RAW to come clean on its founder's memoirs

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, July 22: Where are memoirs of the first Chief of the country's snooping agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)-- R N Kao? The curious case came before the Central Information Commission today which directed the agency to disclose if these memoirs running into several volumes, More
Delhi completes 100 years as capital

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, July 22: As Delhi completes a century of being the nation's capital, schoolchildren have pieced together interesting stories about monuments, places, traditions, culture and individuals that shaped the ancient city. Invited to write about "the 100 that excited them the most," students More
Sky is the limit for our powers: SC

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, July 22: Amidst criticism of judicial activism, the Supreme Court today asserted that sky is the limit for exercising its extraordinary Constitutional powers to pass any order in the interest of justice, even if it means bypassing statutory provisions.A bench of justices J M Panchal More
Ministry asks Army to change Chief's date in all records
New Delhi, July 22: After declaring Army Chief Gen V K Singh's date of birth as May 10,1950, the Defence Ministry has asked the Army's official record-keeper Adjutant General's Branch to make the change in its records which had May 10, 1951. The AG's branch has been taking 1951 as the birth More
SC allows Sanjay Dutt to travel abroad

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, July 22: The Supreme Court today allowed Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, convicted in the 1993 Mumbai serial blast case, to go abroad till January 10 next year. A bench of justices P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan asked the actor to surrender his passport within a week after coming back to the More
Amar Singh questioned

Cash-for-vote scam

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, July 22: Rajya Sabha member Amar Singh was today questioned by Delhi police in connection with the 2008 'cash-for-vote' scam. The former Samajwadi Party leader was grilled for three-and-a-half hours at the Crime Branch office after two arrested accused Sanjeev Saxena and Suhail More
  • Kashmir

Revoke controversial laws from JK: SAD (A)

‘Separatists true representatives of Kashmiris’

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, July 22: President of Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) and former Member of Parliament Simranjit Singh Maan on Friday demanded immediate revocation of Armed Forces Special Powers Act and other More


  • Srinagar City

COME EVENINGS, CRPF BLOCKS MUNAWARABAD ROAD

TRAFFIC JAMS LAST TILL MIDNIGHT; LOCALS, TOURIST AGHAST

GK CITY REPORTER

Srinagar, July 22: Come evenings, the paramilitary CRPF often blocks the Munawarbad Road, a key to link to Shahr-e-Khaas thereby causing huge gridlocks on the busy track.  The complainants said the More



  • Jammu

Jammu students demand setting up of CU

Jammu, July 22: Hundreds of students gathered here Friday to demand that a Central University, sanctioned more than two years ago, be set up in Jammu.    The students tried to take out a More


  • South Asia

Pakistan protests arrest of Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai

REZAUL H LASKAR/PTI

Islamabad, July 22: The Pakistani government has lodged a protest with the US over the arrest of Kashmiri separatist Ghulam Nabi Fai and accused Washington of running a "slander campaign" against Islamabad More


  • Business

‘JK to upgrade skills of 40 lakh persons by 2025’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, July 22: Speakers at a seminar said there was a dire need to change curricula to produce human resource with technical, managerial and administrative skills needed by industry, trade and business More


  • World

Fai detention hearing postponed till Tuesday

LALIT K JHA/PTI

Washington, July 22: The detention hearing of Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai, arrested by FBI for illegally lobbying for Pakistan in the US, was postponed for next Tuesday as his attorney had scheduling conflicts More


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