16th batch of 3,398 pilgrims leave for Amarnath from Jammu

Amid tight security, the sixteenth batch of 3,398 pilgrims today left Jammu for the 3,888-metre Amarnath cave shrine of Lord Shiva in the south Kashmir Himalayas. Escorted by the CRPF and police, the batch consisting of 2,535 males, 758 females, 100 sadhus and sadhvis, and five transgenders left in a convoy of 191 vehicles for Baltal and Pahalgam base camps this morning, officials said

Goa desecration cases: 50-year-old man arrested

A Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Goa Police has arrested a 50-year-old man in connection a series of cases of alleged desecration of holy crosses in South Goa district, a senior officer said today

Shimla Rape-Murder Case: HP Govt to hand over probe to CBI

The Himachal Pradesh government on Friday decided to hand over the investigation into the Shimla schoolgirl’s rape and murder to the CBI. The announcement came amid a five-hour protest when a mob threw stones and ringed Shimla SP D W Negi at Theog, about 30 km from the scene of crime in Kotkhai, Shimla district

Alert sounded as Yamuna swells

Sonepat: Deputy Commissioner KM Pandurang has sounded an alert following the release of more than 1.50 lakh cusecs of water into the Yamuna from the Tajewala headworks. He has directed the police to step up vigil on the riverbanks.

Traders continue indefinite fast in Panipat

Panipat: Cloth merchants, textile manufacturers and other traders continued their indefinite fast on the second day here today. A total of 21 members of various associations remained on fast from 11 am to 5 pm.

Plywood unit owners block NH against GST, market fee

Yamunanagar: Owners of plywood-manufacturing units, labourers and timber agents blocked National Highway 73 for several hours here today to protest against the imposition of 28 per cent GST on plywood, 18 per cent GST on poplar and eucalyptus and 2 per cent market fee charged by the state government.

Senior IRS officers appointed CBDT members

Senior bureaucrats Arbind Modi and Bajrang Dass Vishnoi were today appointed as members of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the apex policy- making body of the Income Tax department. Both of them are 1981-batch officers of Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax cadre)

Court to hear Satyendar Jain's plea against Mishra on July 28

A city court today decided to record pre-summoning evidence in two criminal defamation complaints filed by Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain against sacked minister Kapil Mishra and a BJP MLA for allegedly defaming him by leveling graft charges

Student commits suicide: Police

A 22-year-old student allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself here early today, the police said. The student of a Mayapuri college, who was studying to be a lab technician, had a message scribbed on her left hand in Hindi

CBFC wants no ‘cow’ in Amartya film, stirs a row

Amartya Sen, Nobel laureate and author of 'The Argumentative Indian', led the chorus of angry voices that questioned the censor board's intent and interest in demanding the wipeout of words like "cow", "Gujarat", "Hindu India" and "Hindutva view of India" from a documentary film revolving around conversations between Sen and Kaushik Basu, chief economic adviser in the UPA-2 regime.