Katra/Jammu, Jun 26: A fresh landslide triggered by rains blocked the new track to Mata Vaishno Devi shrine atop Trikuta hills in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, officials said. However, the pilgrimage is progressing smoothly through the old route, while both battery car and helicopter service remained suspended, the officials said. They said the landslide occurred near Satya view point along the Himkoti route at a time when the shrine board had already diverted the pilgrima

New Delhi, Jun 24: The Indian airlines have suspended their flights to the Middle East due to the escalating tensions in the region, impacting thousands of passengers and also resulting in significant financial loss for the carriers. Air India, which is already grappling with operational disruptions, has temporarily stopped services to the Middle East, Europe as well as to five destinations in the US and Canada. In view of the evolving situation and the closure of certain airspaces in the [] The

Jammu, Jun 23: An Air India Express flight from Delhi to Srinagar via Jammu returned to its origin airport before landing here on Monday afternoon, officials said. It was, however, not known immediately what led the flight to return to Delhi, they said. The officials said that the flight IX-2564 was supposed to land in Jammu around noon before leaving for Srinagar, but it hovered over the Jammu airport for sometime before its pilot decided to return to Delhi without [] The post Air India Express

Kolkata, Jun 17: An Air India flight from San Francisco to Mumbai suffered a technical snag in one of its engines, due to which passengers had to be deplaned during a scheduled halt at the Kolkata airport early on Tuesday. Flight AI180 arrived on time at 12.45 am at the airport, but a technical snag in the left engine of the Boeing 777-300 aircraft resulted in the takeoff getting delayed, officials said. When it was finally realised that the technical [] The post Air India Flight From San Franci

SRINAGAR, Jun 16: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Monday asked the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to take immediate steps to ensure the safe return of Indian students stranded in Iran amid the ongoing the Tehran-Tel Aviv war. Families of the stranded students in Iran are growing increasingly anxious with each passing day. I earnestly urge the Ministry of External Affairs to intervene and take immediate steps to ensure the safe return of their loved ones, Mufti said in a [] The post Mehbooba

Mumbai, Jun 13: Air India has set up assistance centres in Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Delhi, and Gatwick (London) airports for the relatives and friends of the victims of the plane crash in Ahmedabad, the airline said on Friday. These centres are facilitating travel of family members to Ahmedabad, Air India said in a statement. A London-bound Boeing 787-8 aircraft crashed into a medical college complex and erupted into flames shortly after taking off from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport

New Delhi, Jun 4: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Friday inaugurate the Chenab bridge, the worlds highest railway arch bridge, and flag off Vande Bharat trains between Katra and Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir. A PMO statement said Modi will launch multiple development projects worth over Rs 46,000 crore at Katra, the home to the Mata Vaishno Devi temple. Lauding the Chenab bridge as an architectural marvel, the statement noted that it is at a height of 359 metres [] The post PM Modi To Inaug

New Delhi, May 26: BJP leader Nishikant Dubey on Monday shared a declassified 1963 telegram from the U.S. State Department, alleging that former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, were responsible for decisions that led to territorial concessions to Pakistan. 1948 [] The post MP Nishikant Dubey Alleges Nehru, Indira Planned To Give Kashmir Territories To Pakistan In 1960s appeared first on Daily Excelsior .

UNITED NATIONS, May 15: An Indian delegation met top officials of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) and Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate here even as New Delhi stepped up efforts to designate The Resistance Front, an LeT proxy, as a UN-listed terror outfit for its alleged involvement in the Pahalgam attack. The Resistance Front (TRF), a front for Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), had claimed responsibility of the Pahalgam attack. An Indian technical

NEW DELHI, May 14: Wholesale price inflation dropped to 0.85 per cent in April as prices of food articles, manufactured products, and fuel eased, government data showed on Wednesday. WPI-based inflation was 2.05 per cent in March. It was 1.19 per cent in April last year. Positive rate of inflation in April, 2025 is primarily due to an increase in prices of manufacture of food products, other manufacturing, chemicals and chemical products, manufacture of other transport equipment and [] The pos

SRINAGAR, Apr 23: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday laid wreaths on the bodies of 26 people killed in the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmirs Pahalgam, and assured the survivors that the perpetrators of the dastardly act would be brought to justice, officials said. Shah laid the wreaths on the coffins of the victims of the terror attack at the Police Control Room here. Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah also paid their tributes to [] The post Wreath Laying

Mumbai, Apr 22: The family was cowering in fear inside a tent when terrorists came. They asked Santosh Jagdale, 54, to come out and recite an Islamic verse. When he couldnt, they shot him thrice: once in the head, then behind the ear and then his back. The 26-year-old daughter of the Pune businessman recounted to PTI the terror the family went through in the horrific attack in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday. After her father fell to [] The post Terrorists Cursed Modi, Asked My Father T

New Delhi, Apr 21: The Indian Space Research Organisation has successfully executed the second docking of the two satellites which are part of the Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) mission, Union minister Jitendra Singh said on Monday. #ISRO SPADEX Update: Glad to inform that the second docking of satellites has been accomplished successfully, Singh, the science and technology minister, said in a post on X. The SpaDeX mission was launched on December 30 last year when the Indian Space Research O

New Delhi, Apr 21: The Supreme Court on Monday directed former IAS probationer Puja Khedkar, accused of cheating and wrongly availing of OBC and disability quota benefits in the civil services examination, to appear before Delhi Police on May 2. A bench comprising Justices B V Nagarathna and Satish Chandra Sharma also said no coercive steps will be taken against Khedkar till May 21, the next date of hearing. The top court noted that no concrete investigation into the matter [] The post SC direct

Ahmedabad, Apr 9: In a sharp message to party leaders, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday said those who do not help out in party work need to take rest while those who do not fulfil their responsibilities should retire. Click Here To Join Daily Excelsior on WhatsApp And Get Latest News In his presidential address at the AICC session on the banks of the Sabarmati river here, Kharge also stressed that District Congress Committee presidents role in the organisation [] The post Thos

NEW DELHI, Apr 9: India and China are moving towards a positive direction in their ties and work needs to be done to normalise the relationship, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Wednesday. Click Here To Join Daily Excelsior on WhatsApp And Get Latest News I think we are moving in a positive direction, he said. India-China relations plunged to their lowest point since the 1962 war following the Galwan Valley clashes. Following a series of diplomatic and military [] The post India, C

NEW DELHI, Apr 1:Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said the capital expenditure has not been cut, but has gone up to Rs 11.21 lakh crore for 2025-26 fiscal, and there has been proportional increase in loans given to states for capital expenditure for the same year. Replying during the Question Hour in Rajya Sabha, Sitharaman said the capital expenditure was at Rs 11.11 lakh crore in 2024-25. Actually, (in) the budget this year, it has gone up to [] The post Capital expenditure not

Hyderabad, Mar 29: Coming down heavily on the NDA government in the Centre over the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday alleged that the bill should be called a looters (amendment) law as the BJP-led regime wants to take away waqf properties. Referring to Union Home Minister Amit Shahs reported remarks that one cannot approach courts against the waqf tribunal, Owaisi alleged that Shah was lying. Owaisi, who has been a vocal critic of the Waqf (Amendment) [] The po