NEW DELHI: Census exercise with caste enumeration will be carried out with the reference date of October 1, 2026, in snow-bound areas like Ladakh and of March 1, 2027, in the rest of the country, the Home Ministry announced on Wednesday. It has been decided to conduct Population Census-2027 in two phases along with the enumeration of castes, it said. The reference date for Population Census - 2027 will be 00:00 hours of the first day of March 2027. For the Union Territory of Ladakh and the non-s

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday chaired the 10th Governing Council meeting of NITI Aayog, bringing together chief ministers of all states, lieutenant governors of Union Territories, and senior Union ministers to deliberate on the theme Viksit Rajya for Viksit Bharat @2047. Held in the national capital, the meeting marks the first major interaction between the Prime Minister and state leaders following Operation Sindoor, and reinforces his emphasis on cooperative federalism un

NEW DELHI: The Central Reserve Police Force has dismissed from service its jawan Munir Ahmed for concealing his marriage with a Pakistani woman as his action was found to be detrimental to national security, official sources said Saturday. The jawan was last posted with the 41st battalion of paramilitary CRPF, the lead internal security force of the country. He was dismissed from service under the rules that do not require conducting an enquiry, official sources told PTI . Munir Ahmed has been d

NEW DELHI: India has banned direct or indirect import of all goods from Pakistan with immediate effect, according to a notification of the commerce ministry. A provision in this regard has been added in Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) 2023 o prohibit direct or indirect import or transit of all goods originating in or exported from Pakistan with immediate effect until further orders, it said in the notification dated May 2. The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) in the notification said this

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday officially commissioned the Vizhinjam International Seaport, here, which was completed at an estimated cost of Rs 8,867 crore. The PM arrived at the port area by helicopter from Thiruvananthapuram city at 10.15 am and walked around the transshipment hub wearing a hard hat, taking stock of the facilities here. Subsequently, at 11.33 am, he formally commissioned the first phase of the facility in the presence of Kerala Governor Rajendra Arl

NEW YORK/ WASHINGTON: The US has issued a 'Do Not Travel' advisory for Jammu and Kashmir owing to the terror attacks and possible violent civilian unrest in the Union Territory and also within 10 kms of the India-Pakistan border. The advisory warning for all US citizens was issued on Wednesday, a day after terrorists opened fire in Kashmir's Pahalgam killing 26 people, mostly tourists, in what is the deadliest attack in the Valley since the Pulwama strike in 2019. Terrorist attacks and violent c

NEW DELHI: India's sporting fraternity oscillated between grief and rage as it joined the nation in condemning the deadly terrorist attack in Pahalgam with some demanding that the country should cut all sports ties with Pakistan. On Tuesday, terrorists opened fire at a prime tourist location in south Kashmir's Pahalgam, killing at least 26 civilians and injuring several others. The Resistance Front (TRF), a shadow group of the banned Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror group, has claimed

Renaming is the order of the day in Uttarakhand. Two key roads in Haldwani Nawabi Road and Panachakki to ITI Road have been rechristened as the Atal Marg and Guru Golwalkar Marg, confirmed an order by the Urban Development Department. This decision follows CM Pushkar Singh Dhamis broader initiative to rename 15 locations across four districts. The name changes were based on proposals from the Haldwani Mayor and cleared by the Public Works Department, an official stated. Meanwhile, the decision

JAMMU: Conspiracies hatched from across the border are killing our children, Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Choudhary said on Saturday, advising Pakistan to give up its errorism as violence can achieve nothing. Talking to reporters after the wreath laying ceremony of head constable Jagbir Singh in the lawns of police headquarters at Gulshan Ground here, Choudhary said he hopes that good sense prevails in Pakistan so that the three-decade-long militancy ends. Jammu and Kashmir