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Srinagar, Feb 10: Last month, when a nomad family from Kathua district, 80 kilometres away from Jammu, filed a missing report for their 8-year-old daughter, among those appointed to trace her was a young Special Police Officer (SPO) called Deepak Khujaria. A week later, police found her body - she had been brutally raped and murdered. Now, the police say, it was the same officer who carried out

Srinagar, Feb 10: Two soldiers were killed while seven others, including family members of army personnel, were injured as a group of fidayeen (suicide) militants stormed an army camp in Sunjwan area on outskirts of Jammu city on Saturday. Sources said two to three heavily armed militants, believed to be fidayeen, in a pre-dawn attack stormed Sunjwan army camp in Jammu city at around 4:55 am and

New Delhi, Feb 9: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi today called upon all political parties to unite on the issue of grant of special status for Andhra Pradesh and other demands, including the speedy completion of the Polavaram project. "The Congress supports the just demands of the people of Andhra Pradesh for special category status and speedy completion of the Polavaram project. It's time for all

As part of union government’s move to stop India's best brains from taking up research scholarships abroad, the Cabinet has cleared the PM Research Fellowships (PMRF) for students of higher education institutions like the IITs, IISERs and NITs, which will also be the country's most lavish paid scholarships to date. Lavish it is. The PMRF includes monthly scholarships of Rs 70,000 to Rs 80,000 and

Fortis Healthcare promoters Malvinder Mohan Singh and Shivinder Mohan Singh have resigned as directors from the company’s board following the Delhi High Court order upholding the ₹3,500 crore arbitral award in favour of Daiichi Sankyo. The Singh brothers have jointly tendered their resignation to the Board of Fortis Healthcare, which will discuss it in the meeting on 13 February, the company said

Srinagar, Feb 9: The Supreme Court on Feb. 9 agreed to hear on Monday the plea of the father of an Army officer, who was booked as an accused by Jammu and Kashmir Police in the recent Shopian firing incident. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud considered advocate Aishwarya Bhati's submission that the plea of the father be heard on an urgent

New Delhi, Feb 9: An Indian Air Force officer, who was taken into custody by the counter intelligence wing of the force for alleged involvement in espionage and leaking classified documents, has been charged under the Official Secrets Act (OSA) and handed over to the police, sources said. They said, the Group Captain, posted at the IAF headquarters here, was handed over to Delhi Police on

New Delhi, Feb 8: The Supreme Court on Thursday pulled up both the Centre and the Uttar Pradesh Government in connection with the Taj Mahal environment protection case. The Apex Court has expressed its unhappiness over the procedures of the Centre and the state government to deal the with the situtation. The Uttar Pradesh Government was asked to submit a protection and preservation plan for the

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 8: The inflow of NRI deposits to Kerala increased by 12 percent during 2016-17 and stood at Rs 1,52,348 crore as of March 2017. Total NRI deposits in public sector banks as of March 2017 was Rs 83,855 crore and Rs 68,493 crore in private sector banks, according to the Economic review 2017 tabled in the state assembly recently. As of March 2016, the NRI deposit was Rs 1,35

New Delhi, Feb 8: Declaring that Congress president Rahul Gandhi was her boss too, Sonia Gandhi today said the process to revive the party's fortunes had begun and she would work with "like-minded parties" to ensure the BJP's defeat in the next elections. The Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) chairperson launched an all-out attack on the BJP and the Modi government and alleged that the government