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DEHRADUN: Speculations were rife as Uttarakhand Chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami met with Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday. Sources in the Uttarakhand unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the government told The New Indian that Cabinet expansion is likely to happen soon. The meeting between Dhami and Shah is said to […]

SRINAGAR: Authorities have imposed restrictions in several areas of Srinagar to prevent Muharram mourners from participating in processions on Sunday, the eighth day of the Islamic calendar. Police and paramilitary forces have been deployed in large numbers at Lal Chowk and adjoining areas, including Maisuma, MA Road and Dalgate as well as in downtown areas […]

KOLKATA: Ignoring Mamata Banerjee’s diktat to abstain from the Vice Presidential election, two Trinamool Congress Members of Parliament Shishir Adhikari and Dibyendu Adhikari exercised their franchise on Saturday. Shishir Adhikari is the father of the current Leader of Opposition in the Bengal Assembly and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Suvendu Adhikari. Dibyendu, on the other […]

DEHRADUN: More than 80 per cent of lush green tea gardens of Dehradun in Uttarakhand have fallen prey to the land sharks of Dehradun, claimed an RTI activist. Vikesh Negi, Dehradun-based RTI activist and a practising advocate told The New Indian, “More than 80 per cent of the land of the tea estates/gardens of Dehradun […]

SRINAGAR: From Kathua to Kupwara, people of Jammu and Kashmir, particularly children, are organising rallies, waving Tiranga, and are enthusiastically waiting to join ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign. The campaign is being carried out under the aegis of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav to encourage people to bring the Tricolour home and hoist it to mark the […]