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NEW DELHI: Nine IAF fighter pilots, four soldiers and two BSF personnel have been awarded Vir Chakra, the nation’s third-highest wartime gallantry medal, for their role in Operation Sindoor, under which India conducted deep cross-border precision strikes against terror hubs and military installations in Pakistan.Operation Sindoor was the prominent theme of 127 gallantry medals &…

JAMMU/SRINAGAR: Many victims of Thursday’s flash floods in J&K’s Kishtwar district were having lunch at a pilgrim camp when a cloudburst struck the area between noon and 1pm, causing rapidly filling rivulets to swamp a swathe of the valley. The camp set up for pilgrims bore the brunt of the damage, leaving a mud-filled gorge…

NEW DELHI: In a first-of-its-kind expedition, India sent an aquanaut 5,002m deep into the ocean as part of the country’s Deep Ocean Mission, which involves development of crewed and uncrewed submersibles and deep-sea mining technologies, aimed at harnessing resources from the Exclusive Economic Zone and continental shelf.As part of Indo-French research collaborations, two Indian aquanauts…

NEW DELHI: Three CRPF personnel who displayed exemplary courage and resilience during encounters with terrorists in J&K shall receive Shaurya Chakra. Two other police personnel named for Shaurya Chakra this Independence Day eve are anti-Naxal encounter specialists of Chhattisgarh Police – inspectors Laxman Kewat and Rameshwar Prasad Deshmukh.On Thursday, home ministry also announced 1,090 police…

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday cancelled the bail for actor Darshan in the Renukaswamy murder case and said popularity cannot be a shield for impunity, nor influence, resources and social status be the basis for grant of bail.Setting aside Karnataka high court’s order granting bail to the actor, a bench of Justices J…

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday sought responses from eight states, including Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra, on a petition by the West Bengal Migrant Workers Welfare Board alleging unauthorised detention of Muslim migrant workers from WB on mere suspicion of being Bangladeshi nationals.Appearing for the West Bengal govt-run board, advocate Prashant Bhushan accused police in…

Trump again claimed he solved the India-Pakistan tension. US President Donald Trump again claimed he brokered peace between India and Pakistan when the countries were probably going “nuclear”. The statement came as Trump is all set to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday in Alaska to settle the Russia-Ukraine war. As Trump spoke about…

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday sought the Centre’s response to a petition seeking restoration of statehood to Jammu & Kashmir, but said such a decision could not be taken without considering prevailing gro-und situation and incidents like Pahalgam, where terrorists had killed 26 people in cold blood on April 22.Senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, appearing…

A deadly botulism outbreak in southern Italy has claimed two lives and left more than a dozen people hospitalised, but one 24-year-old student says she is “lucky” to be alive after eating one of the contaminated sandwiches.Authorities say the outbreak has been traced to a food truck operating on the seafront in Diamante, Calabria, whose…

JAMMU/SRINAGAR: Flash flooding within moments of a cloudburst Thursday wrought tragic devastation on a pilgrimage pit stop at Chishoti in J&K’s Kishtwar district, killing at least 46 people – most of them pilgrims on the return leg of the Shri Machail Mata Yatra – and injuring over 100.Scores of pilgrims were reported missing as Army,…