9 die as heat wave sweeps across North, East India

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, May 26: Nine more people succumbed to blistering heat in Odisha as soaring mercury coupled with hot and dusty winds today scorched vast swathes of northern and eastern India where temperatures breached the 45 degrees mark at several places.However, the national capital Delhi got some More

Respond to peace overtures in Assam: Sonia to militants
Guwahati, May 26: United Progressive Alliance chairperson and Congress party president Sonia Gandhi Saturday appealed to hardline militant outfits in Assam to respond to the government's peace overtures and join hands in putting the state on a high growth path. "I'm very happy to see the changed More

Mamata leads protest march against petrol price hike

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Kolkata, May 26: Accompanied by thousands of partymen, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee today hit the roads here as the first chief minister to lead a protest march against the steep hike in petrol price to pressurize the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre. Braving the scorching More

CBSE class XII results on May 28

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, May 26: The results of class XII Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) examination 2012 will be announced on May 28. The results will be declared at 11 am on May 28, said a CBSE statement today. The results will be available on on the websites More

NEW TREATMENT FOR EYE PATIENTS
Kolkata, May 26: An eye hospital in Kolkata has introduced an innovative method of 'Auto blood Conjunctival Graft Fixation' surgery for treating Pterygium patients with their blood. Pterygium is a wing-shaped fibro vascular tissue encroaching on to cornea from the nasal or temporal side causing More

  • Kashmir

3-yrs on, Sopore family awaits justice

Their Son Was Killed In Punjab

SHABIR IBN YUSUF

Srinagar, May 26: Three years after a Sopore man was brutally murdered in Punjab over a marital discord, his family still awaits justice.   Ishfaq Yusuf, 34, a model-turned aspiring pilot was More



  • Srinagar City

ENCROACHMENTS EAT AWAY JHELUM BEAUTIFICATION

GK CITY CORRESPONDENT

Srinagar, May 26: Notwithstanding government claims of continuing to facelift Jhelum banks, encroachments are eating away the riverside, including the already beautified patches where ugly illegal hutments More




  • Jammu

Sizzling weekend for Jammuites at 40°C

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, May 26: Jammu's tryst with intense heat wave continued for the second consecutive day on Saturday as the maximum temperature rose to a nearly 40 degrees Celsius, one notch above normal. The More



  • World

10,000 killed in Syria since uprising: UN

Observers Confirm Houla Massacre

Damascus, May 26: UN observers have counted at least 90 bodies, including 32 children, after a Syrian government attack on a town. UN mission head Maj-Gen Robert Mood told the BBC the killing in Houla More



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