India

Aravalli: Mountain older than memory If demography can be a dividend, geography certainly decides its destiny. Few landscapes illustrate this more clearly than the Aravalli Range, an ancient chain of hills that quietly shapes water security, climate, and life across western and northwestern India.The hills that run for nearly 690 km from Gujarat through Rajasthan…

File photo (Picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Security forces launched a search operation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district on Sunday after terrorists allegedly took food from a house in a village before fleeing into a nearby forest, reported news agency PTI.According to officials, the joint operation involving police and paramilitary forces is underway in…

Representative image (Picture credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: The higher reaches of Kashmir witnessed fresh snowfall while the plains received rain on Sunday, bringing relief to residents as Chillai-Kalan, the Valley’s harshest 40-day winter period, set in after a prolonged dry spell, as per PTI.Officials said snowfall was reported from the Gulmarg tourist resort in north…

File photo (Picture credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) firmly rejected claims linking eggs to cancer risk, saying eggs sold in India are safe for consumption and that recent reports and social media posts are scientifically unsupported and alarmist.Clarifying concerns over alleged presence of nitrofuran metabolites (AOZ), the…

NEW DELHI: Katra court on Saturday refused to order criminal proceedings against officials of the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board in connection with the August 26 landslide that killed 35 pilgrims, concluding that the incident stemmed from natural causes rather than prosecutable negligence.The court, however, made it clear that its order would not affect…

SRINAGAR: J&K Omar Abdullah Saturday praised the Centre for being generous in allocating funds to J&K, but said the same magnanimity had not been shown in the matter of restoring statehood.Omar said he had no hesitation in acknowledging and thanking the Centre’s efforts where it had delivered. “I am not among those who practise politics…

SRINAGAR: Days after J&K CM Omar Abdullah described the “vote chori” as an issue of the Congress alone and said the INDIA bloc had “nothing to do with it,” the party on Saturday said being in alliance does not negate a constituent’s political ideology.“Omar Abdullah was present in various meetings of the INDIA bloc, whether…

The Kochi-Muziris Biennale has never been about polished spectacle. Instead of wine and cheese, there are fried banana fritters, a curator dressed in shorts, with some works unfinished and others still finding their rhythm. Neelam Raaj spoke to curator Nikhil Chopra on why he wanted to blur hierarchies and invite viewers to experience contemporary art…

LUCKNOW: Police on Saturday lodged an FIR against two doctors and the manager of a private hospital for alleged medical negligence following the death of a man after a surgery for kidney stone removal in Rae Bareli.Lodging a complaint at Kotwali Nagar police station, Santosh Kumar Gupta said his son Deepak Gupta, 22, was suffering…

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Saturday ordered the release of Christian James Michel from custody in a money laundering case linked to the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper scam, holding that he has already spent the ‘maximum period’ of incarceration prescribed for the offence.Allowing Michel’s plea seeking release in the case filed by ED, special CBI…