NEW DELHI: The Congress has taken a stand in Jammu and Kashmir that it will not join the cabinet until statehood is restored there, Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh said on Wednesday.The party also vowed to intensify its movement demanding restoration of statehood in Jammu and Kashmir.The Congress claimed that even though elections have taken…
National Conference’s Farfooq Abdullah SRINAGAR: National Conference president Farooq Abdullah blamed the “dual power structure” in the Union territory for the slow pace of development and warned that his party would move SC if statehood isn’t restored soon. It is the first time NC has openly threatened legal action on restoration of statehood for Jammu…
Spain’s national power company said early Tuesday that nearly all power had been restored in the country, mostly ending a major outage that affected airports, trains, traffic lights and other critical infrastructure. The company, Red Eléctrica, said that 99 percent of power demand in Peninsular Spain was being met, and that all substations on the…
Researchers have corrected a disease-causing gene mutation with a single infusion carrying a treatment that precisely targeted the errant gene. This was the first time a mutated gene has been restored to normal. The small study of nine patients announced Monday by the company Beam Therapeutics of Cambridge, Mass., involved fixing a spelling error involving…
NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday proclaimed that what belongs to the Hindus must be rightly restored after he said that 54 out of 67 pilgrimage sites were reclaimed in Sambhal district due to the government’s efforts.During his address in the assembly, Yogi pulled up the Samajwadi Party for “playing” with…
NEW DELHI: Maha Kumbh 2025 will be remembered for many things, but one engineering marvel stands out — the unification of the Ganga’s three separate streams into a single, cohesive flow. Through a 2.5-kilometre dredging project, the river’s course was restored, reclaiming land equivalent to 1,000 tennis courts. This first-of-its-kind intervention expanded the Mela premises…
OLD SPACE, NEW USE: Surface, an exhibition at Toorji ka Jhalra, uses the heritage setting dating back to the 1740s to showcase the country’s rich textile traditions On a typical afternoon at Jodhpur’s Toorji ka Jhalra, an ancient stepwell within the walled part of the old city, one can spot local teens flinging themselves off…
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut/ PTI photo NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Thursday claimed some of the leaders in the BJP wished to have an alliance with the Uddhav Thackeray-led party, an assertion that CM Devendra Fadnavis outrightly dismissed. Raut also said that even some members of his party might…
LUCKNOW: As a New Year gift to veterans grappling with impaired vision, a team of Army doctors from the Research and Referral (RR) Hospital in New Delhi, Lucknow’s Command Hospital, and Military Hospital Dehradun restored the eyesight of more than 250 individuals in just three days.The operation was conducted in Dehradun under the aegis of…
NEW DELHI: As Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal reeled from violent clashes and unrest, the Supreme Court on Friday directed a trial court to halt proceedings related to the contentious survey of the Mughal-era Shahi Jama Masjid. The move comes amid tensions following a November 19 court order that authorised the survey of the mosque, based on…