The pilgrims, including 1,429 women and 250 sadhus, left the Bhagwati Nagar base camp here in the morning for Nunwan-Pahalgam and Baltal base camps in 229 vehicles under tight security arrangements, they said.
During a telephonic conversation with the governor, the home minister enquired about the flood situation in certain parts of Jammu and Kashmir.
During a two-day 'chintan shibir' (brainstorming session) of the party aimed at preparing for the 2019 polls was held on June 24 and 25 in Ahmedabad. Shah, who was present at the concluding session, asked the partymen to strive hard to win all the 26 seats, party source said.
Top sources say the defence acquisitions council (DAC), chaired by minister Nirmala Sitharaman, on Thursday, approved the “minor deviations” in the mega S-400 deal that had emerged during the recently-concluded commercial negotiations with Russia.
The Rajya Sabha MP, who participated in a debate on secularism here, said, "We should go for real secularism... Secularism means all are children of the same God and not dividing people - which is akin to appeasement. Secularism does not mean appeasement of one community," he said.
The Bill proposes to amend the Citizenship Act, 1955 to make illegal migrants who are Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, eligible for citizenship in India.
Apart from holding discussions with state office-bearers, members of the 11-member parliamentary management committee, youth, women and student wings, Amit Shah will also meet grassroots workers — two members drawn from each of the 1200 panchayats in the three Lok Sabha seats of Bhubaneswar, Puri and Cuttack, BJP state vice-president Sameer Mohanty said.
Authorities on Saturday sounded a flood alert in central Kashmir even as three deaths were reported in rain-related mishaps in the Jammu region of the state. Srinagar-bound traffic on the Jammu-Srinagar highway was suspended due to the threat of floods in the Valley, leaving hundreds of commuters stranded, officials said.
They turned themselves in before Inspector General of Police (Bastar range) Vivekanand Sinha and officials of the Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) at Narayanpur, district Superintendent of Police Jitendra Shukla told PTI.
JD (U) national secretary Sanjay Verma said in a statement on Saturday that the bill will hamper cultural and linguistic identity of indigenous people of Assam in particular and northeast in general. He said India is a secular country and citizenship cannot be determined on the basis of religion.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday greeted the people on the occasion of World Social Media Day, saying the new medium has played a key role in democratizing discourse, and helped people express their views and showcase their creativity.
Srinagar-bound vehicles were stopped at various places between Ramban and Banihal along the highway around 2pm as a precautionary measure in view of the emerging situation in the Valley in the aftermath of heavy rain over the past several days, the officials said.
A flood alert was sounded in south and central Kashmir after many parts of the state were lashed by monsoon rains intermittently since June 27, leaving thousands of pilgrims who have reached the twin base camps of Baltal in Ganderbal district and Pahalgam in Anantnag district stranded.
Substantial research efforts are needed to find solutions to address grave challenges like providing drinking water, eradicating neglected diseases and reducing hunger, Isro Chairman Dr. K Sivan said here on Saturday.
Additional District Judge Neeraj Kumar Srivastav convicted Ekka under sections 302 (murder), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of an offence committed), 364A (kidnapping for ransom), 171F (undue influence at an election) of Indian Penal Code and under the Arms Act.
India can live without Iranian energy, but Iran will remain an important part of India’s foreign policy. As the US under Donald Trump takes an extreme view of Iran sanctions, it promises to constrain India’s manoeuvring space significantly if India is not careful.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj was again trolled on Twitter today and accused of appeasing Muslims. Her husband Swaraj Kaushal tweeted a screenshot of a post by a Twitter user who asked him to "teach" the minister "not to do Muslim appeasement".
Despite their differences over politics, the three major political parties - BJP, Congress and JD(S) - on Saturday put up a unified front on the issue of Cauvery river water dispute with Tamil Nadu.
According to the complaint lodged by one Jaswant Singh, he along with his wife and son went to the house of the sarpanch, Nirmal Singh, seeking his intervention in settling a dispute with Gurmeet Singh.
A special PMLA court here on Saturday summoned beleaguered liquor baron Vijay Mallya to appear before it on August 27 on the Enforcement Directorate's plea seeking action against him under the fugitive economic offenders ordinance in the over Rs 9,000 crore bank fraud case.
The body of only one LeT terrorist was recovered from the site of encounter in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, a police official said on Saturday, adding that the other two believed to have been killed in the operation apparently managed to escape.
The flood control department has already declared an emergency in the Valley as the water level in the river crossed the danger mark at Sangam (Anantnag), Ram Munshibagh (Srinagar) and Asham (Bandipora) areas.
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"Today once again I urge to the families to appeal to their boys who have taken the wrong path to leave the path of violence & (and) come home," the DGP wrote on Twitter.