Chandigarh, Sep 29 (IANS) The Punjab government has ordered the evacuation of villages in a 10-km belt along the border with Pakistan following the surgical strikes by the Indian Army across the LoC. The union home ministry on Thursday directed ...
Read More »Iraqi Kurds drive Islamic State out of villages
IRBIL, (Iraq): The Kurdish regional government in northern Iraq says it has driven the Islamic State group out of more than 140 sq kilometers (54 sq miles) of territory near the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and cleared part of a ...
Read More »Pakistan targets villages, 8 BoPs with mortar bombs; one injured
Pakistani Rangers indulged in heavy firing and mortar shelling overnight on eight border outposts and some villages along the international border in Jammu district, leaving one person injured. “Pakistani Rangers resorted to small arms firing and mortar shelling along IB ...
Read More »Woman killed, 8 injured as Pak troops target villages, border posts
A woman was killed and eight other people injured on Saturday in Pakistani shelling along the international border in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba and Kathua districts, police said. The woman identified as 45-year-old Toshi Devi, a resident of Mangu Chak ...
Read More »Govt appraises MP Guv on HC order on merger of villages
After facing a setback from the court that cancelled the government’s move to merge various villages in four Municipal Corporations, the Madhya Pradesh government has pinned all hopes on Governor Ram Naresh Yadav. The High Court had cancelled the process ...
Read More »UN team visits villages along International Border: Pakistan
A team of UN military observers has visited the villages along the International Border with India to get first-hand information on the situation, Pakistani officials said today. The UN Military Observers Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) team visited areas ...
Read More »Pak troops target Jammu villages; truce violation in Gulmarg
After shelling border hamlets along the LoC in Poonch, Pakistani troops resorted to heavy firing of mortar bombs, small and automatic weapons in Jammu region overnight leaving two persons injured. The Army said there was also a brief ceasefire violation ...
Read More »Ensure 22 hours power in cities, 16 in villages: Akhilesh Yadav
Says by 2016 the power demand will touch 23,000 MW Press Trust Of India September 23, 2014 Last Updated at 20:49 IST Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday directed the power department to take steps to ensure electricity ...
Read More »East Asian model: Will chic villages draw business, jobs
Deutsche Bank foresees a shift from India’s current services-driven growth trajectory to an East Asian growth model based on the mass deployment of labour and capital. In its recent report, The Wide Angle: India 2020 – The Road to East ...
Read More »Floods ravage 1,500 villages in UP and Bihar, death toll 28
Over 1,500 villages in nine districts of Uttar Pradesh have been severely affected by floods. So far, the death toll has been pegged at 28, and thousands are said to be homeless. The water level in the River Rapti has ...
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