Author: DA Correspondent

Coronavirus: Vaishno Devi yatra closed, all interstate buses banned in JK

Vaishno Devi pilgrim dies of heart attack in J-K’s Reasi

5:27 pm September 7, 2019

Jammu: A 54-year-old pilgrim from Bihar died of a cardiac arrest after paying obeisance at the famous Vaishno Devi shrine in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district, police said on Saturday. Kedar Choudhary, a resident of Bihar’s Mannu Bahri village, collapsed near Bhairo Temple while returning from the cave shrine atop the Trikuta hills late Friday, […]

President arrives in Odisha on a 3-day visit

Pakistan denies use of airspace to Prez Kovind for foreign visits

5:19 pm September 7, 2019

Islamabad: Pakistan has refused a request by India to allow President Ram Nath Kovind to use its airspace for his flight to Iceland, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Saturday. Kovind will embark on a visit to Iceland, Switzerland and Slovenia from Monday during which he is expected to brief the top leadership in […]

Chandrayaan 2: PM Modi gives tight hug to emotional ISRO chief K Sivan

5:09 pm September 7, 2019

Bengaluru: After a pep talk to scientists, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday gave a long and tight hug to an emotional ISRO chief K Sivan, who was in tears, unable to come to termsover lander Vikram’s unsuccessful bid to soft-land on the moon. Modi, in his address at the ISRO centre here, asked the […]

Weakened Hurricane Dorian strands people on North Carolina island

8:58 pm September 6, 2019

Wilmington, North Carolina: Hurricane Dorian howled over North Carolina’s Outer Banks on Friday — a much weaker version of the brute that wreaked havoc in the Bahamas — flooding homes in the low-lying ribbon of islands and throwing a scare into year-round residents who chose to tough it out. Hundreds were feared trapped on one […]

Delhi: Woman filmed in changing room; FIR lodged

8:10 pm September 6, 2019

New Delhi: Delhi Police have registered an FIR against a shopkeeper in Greater Kailash M-Block market for allegedly filming a woman while she was trying on clothes. No arrests have been made so far. According to the complainant, on August 31, while trying on garments in the GK-1 M-Block market’s shop, she was suddenly directed […]