Syed Ali Shah Geelani who was arrested by the police on Saturday had called for a week long protest shut down which crippled normal life in the Valley.Geelani was taken to an undisclosed destination after his arrest by the police. He has called for a march to Shopian on Monday.
20 passengers of a mini-bus are feared dead in a road accident in the hilly Doda district of Jammu region. A senior state government officer said the mini-bus which was on its way from Premnagar to Thathri in Doda district carrying 24 passengers, rolled down into the fast flowing Chenab river on Sunday morning.
In what was seen as a major climbdown, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Sunday reversed her own diktat on the Right to Information Act, whereby she had restricted access to official information about several issues.
BSF Director-General M L Kumawat said in Shillong that New Delhi has decided to raise 29 additional battalions of the BSF and set up over 500 new Border Outposts, most of which will be located along the porous and sensitive frontier with Bangladesh in the Northeast.
With the highest number of confirmed swine flu cases getting registered in Hyderabad, the Andhra Pradesh government has sounded a health alert across the state and directed the authorities to further intensify the screenings of all the inbound passengers at the Hyderabad International Airport.
MMRDA is planning to construct rental homes. The housing project’s aim was to offer an alternative accommodation to migrants who are unable to afford a home.
When someone is carrying the load of a family it somehow enhances his appeal and virtues, at least for the woman who is interested in him.
There’s something hypnotic about clothes that move entirely of their own accord. Chicsters are going gaga over fringe benefits
Four youths robbed a senior citizen after threatening her and her grand children with a knife.
After the Left’s rout in the parliamentary polls, the Catholic Church wants to seal the fate of LDF, like that of the EMS Namboodiripad government in 1959.