SRINAGAR: J&K chief secretary Atal Dulloo Wednesday rolled out a three-year scheme to rehabilitate drug addicts under treatment at govt-run or aided de-addiction centres and institutions, prevent relapse, and aid their reintegration into society.The scheme will initially be introduced in the districts of Jammu, Srinagar, Kathua and Budgam and later extended to others, officials said.Under…

Nagpur flat owner is set to face an FIR in minor rape case for not verifying his tenant Nagpur minor rape: Flat owner to face FIR The owner of a one-room flat, where a 16-year-old Class 12 student was held captive for 24 hours and subjected to brutal sexual assault by a Thane youth, is…

The meeting came days after the BJP announced its 65-member national team under party president Nitin Nabin. NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday met the BJP’s newly appointed team of national office-bearers at the party headquarters in the national capital and posed for a group photograph with them.The meeting was the first introductory…

NEW DELHi: Attacking home minister Amit Shah for demanding an apology over the Vande Mataram row, Congress claimed the minister had insulted Bhimrao Ambedkar’s memory in Rajya Sabha and that he owes allegiance to an organisation that did not unfurl the tricolour at its headquarters till 2002 – in what were allusions to Shah’s controversial…

State-run Global Times quoted Chinese experts as saying India’s move would not alter the legal status of the disputed territory but could complicate future boundary negotiations. GUWAHATI: China has hit back sharply at India for assigning standard names to 27 geographical locations in Arunachal Pradesh, with the state-run Global Times claiming these areas are in…

Tharoor said he was “blissfully unaware” of the devastation caused by a sudden flash flood in Nepal Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday said that he was “blissfully unaware” of the devastation caused by a sudden flash flood in Nepal’s Rasuwa district when he left for Kathmandu on Wednesday.“A severe, sudden flash flood struck northern…