SRINAGAR: MF Husain’s horses meant power. Flat, bold, Cubist, built for scale like the Bollywood billboards he once painted in Mumbai. Masood Hussain’s horse is painted on Pashmina and dyed in the wool — carrying the earliest Kashmiri poetry, passed down orally for 600 years before anyone wrote it down.This is a sharp turn from…
Ladakh’s tourist footfall continues rising SRINAGAR: Ladakh has recorded a sharp rise in tourist arrivals this year, with 4,05,085 visiting the Union Territory in the first eight months of 2026, exceeding the 3,35,872 tourists recorded for all of 2025. “In just eight months of 2026, the total tourist footfall has exceeded by 20.6% from the…
Rakesh Mehta Former Delhi Chief Secretary NEW DELHI: Former Delhi chief secretary Rakesh Mehta, who served during chief minister Sheila Dikshit’s tenure, allegedly died by suicide at his residence in Noida, officials said on Tuesday.Mehta, 74, a 1975-batch IAS officer, was found hanging from a ceiling fan at his Sector 82 residence on September 6,…
SC sets condition for Rajpal Yadav’s surrender relief NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed actor Rajpal Yadav to deposit Rs 5 crore with its Registry by Wednesday as a condition for exempting him from surrendering to serve his sentence in a cheque-bounce case involving film producer-financier Murli Projects Pvt Ltd.A bench headed by…
Delhi Govt cracks whip, 5 MCD officials suspended after Satya Niketan building collapse. Photo credit: ANI NEW DELHI: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has demolished 24 properties and sealed seven illegal structures across the capital following the building collapse in south Delhi’s Satya Niketan that killed seven people.According to the MCD data, quoted by…
File photo: A drone view of the dry riverbed as Cauvery water flow remains low at Mukkombu Dam, in Tiruchirappalli (Picture credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: The Karnataka government is seriously considering approaching the Supreme Court against the direction to release 6,000 cusecs of Cauvery river water daily to Tamil Nadu, state water resources minister N…
India, China hold first high-level military flag meeting in Arunachal sector NEW DELHI: India and China have held their first Senior Highest Military Commander-Level Flag Meeting in the Arunachal Pradesh sector, with talks taking place on both sides of the frontier earlier this week.The meeting followed understandings reached during the Special Representatives dialogue between National…
Digital asset companies from BRICS and partner countries will seek a bigger place in cross-border payments and institutional investment NEW DELHI: Digital asset companies from Brics and partner countries will seek a bigger place in cross-border payments and institutional investment at a Delhi roundtable on September 12, alongside a summit whose participants, organisers say, manage…
A bench of Justices Ahsanuddin Amanullah and R Mahadevan was hearing a plea. The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would examine on September 10 whether the issues arising from the Satya Niketan building collapse in Delhi should be taken up by the top court, potentially bringing the case under its ongoing pan-India proceedings.A bench…
Police complaint lodged against Dhirendra Shastri NEW DELHI: The West Bengal Congress on Tuesday lodged a police complaint against Bageshwar Dham head priest Dhirendra Shastri over his recent “avoid non-veg during Durga Puja” remark, asserting that the call was “intended to create disharmony.”In the complaint submitted to the officer-in-charge of Kolkata’s Bhawanipore police station, the…
