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NEW DELHI: Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba was on Wednesday appointed as the next Cabinet Secretary for a tenure of two years. Gauba, a 1982-batch IAS officer of the Jharkhand cadre, will initially join as the Officer on Special Duty in the Cabinet Secretariat, before he takes over the charge ...

.By Pamela Constable and Karen DeYoung KABUL —  The official government line here is that the Islamic State has been defeated. The local branch of the extremist Sunni militia, Afghan officials say, has been corralled into a mountainous area near the Pakistani border by Afghan and U.S. forces and can ...

NEW DELHI: High level of drama unfolded after Congress leader P Chidambaram, missing for over 25 hours, surfaced at the Congress headquarter in the national capital on Wednesday night. The former finance minister was later detained in the INX Media case. Addressing a press conference, Congress leader denied all charges and defended himself. ...

SRINAGAR: The State administration on Wednesday accorded sanction to the grant of status equivalent to Minister of State (MoS) to the Mayors of Srinagar Municipal Corporation and Jammu Municipal Corporation. The order issued by the administration reads, “Sanction is hereby accorded to the grant of status equivalent to Minister of State ...

SRINAGAR: A Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorist was killed and a policeman was martyred on Wednesday in an encounter with terrorists in Baramulla district . The encounter, which began on Tuesday, has ended with the killing of a terrorist who has been identified as Momin Gojri, a resident of Baramulla. Gojri was affiliated with the ...

UTTARKASHI: An Indian Air Force helicopter, carrying relief material to flood affected areas of Uttarakhand crashed here on Wednesday. The helicopter was going from Mori to Moldi, in Uttarkashi district.Three people, Pilot Rajpal, Co-pilot Kaptal Lal & a local person Ramesh Sawar, were on-board the helicopter. Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Devendra Negi ...

by Manzoor AhmedPakistan is not only stoking violence in Kashmir but also in Afghanistan where it finds its violent and deceitful policy crumbling fast. The Pakistan Army is on the back foot now, first with the failure of its Kashmir policy and now with Afghanistan slipping out of its control, ...

NEW DELHI: Former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was admitted to the AIIMS here on Friday after he complained of palpitations and restlessness, and is under observation, sources at the hospital said. Jaitley, 66, was admitted to the Cardio-Neuro-Centre of the hospital around 10 am, they said. “He is under observation. ...

NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leaders on Friday met UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi at her residence here ahead of the crucial Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting to decide on the new party chief. Sources said senior leaders Ahmed Patel, A K Antony and K C Venugopal are learnt to have discussed ...

New Delhi: India`s Industrial Production (IIP) grew 2 percent in June from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday. The cumulative growth for the period April-June 2019 over the corresponding period of the previous year stands at 3.6 percent. The Indices of Industrial Production for the Mining, Manufacturing and ...