The transfer of some officials supervising the ongoing last phase of update of National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam will hamper the process, officials familiar with development said. The reshuffle came despite Supreme Court’s request to the Election Commission of India to examine the case for exemption of these
Month: March 2019
In the Pujhar household, at the end of the row in the residential quarters of workers at the Halmira Tea Estate in Assam’s Golaghat district, Dipali Pujhar (11) is the eldest surviving member of the family. Her parents Debaru and Sunita, died in the recent hooch tragedy. The first deaths
A woman and her two minor children , one of them nine months old, were killed while her husband was critically injured after a Pakistani mortar shell hit their house along the Line of Control in Jhullas area of Poonch district late Friday night. Shelling by Pakistani forces intensified around
The Bombay High Court Friday asked fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya when would he return to India and face the ongoing legal proceedings against him. A division bench of Justices Indrajit Mahanty and Sarang Kotwal was hearing a petition filed by Mallya against a city court’s January 5 order declaring him
Four security personnel, including two from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), and one civilian were killed in an encounter in north Kashmir’s Kupwara on Friday. A statement from the Jammu and Kashmir Police said that the army, state police and the CRPF launched an operation in Babagund village late