Assam’s Citizen Identification Can Exclude 4 Million People, Ensure Rights, Nondiscrimination for All Residents says HRW, Amnesty International

Assam’s Citizen Identification Can Exclude 4 Million People, Ensure Rights, Nondiscrimination for All Residents says HRW, Amnesty International

Srinagar: The Indian authorities should ensure that documenting and updating the names of citizens in the northeastern state of Assam is transparent and nondiscriminatory, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International India said today. The potential exclusion of over 4 million people, many of them Muslims, raises concerns over arbitrary detention and possible statelessness without due […]

Aurobindo Pharma receives final approval for Bivalirudin injection

Aurobindo Pharma receives final approval for Bivalirudin injection

Mumbai:  Pharma Major Aurobindo Pharma said that it has received final approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) to manufacture and market Bivalirudin injection, 250 mg/vial. The approved ANDA is a generic equivalent to the reference listed drug (RLD) product Angiomax Injection of The Medicines Company, the company said in a filing with […]

Sensex falls by 158.22 pts

Sensex falls by 158.22 pts

Mumbai: Opening higher by 40 points, the benchmark index of Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) immediately went down on Tuesday by 158.22 points to 37,336.18 as selling was witnessed in Materials, Energy, FMCG, Finance and Telecom stocks. The National Stock Exchange (NSE) too eased by 35.05 points to 11,284.50. In scrips like Tata Motors DVR, Axis […]

Militants barge into house of cops in Shopian, ask them to ‘resign or face consequences’

Militants barge into house of cops in Shopian, ask them to ‘resign or face consequences’

  SHOPIAN: Militants on Monday night barged into the houses of three  police constables, thrashed and asked them to resign from their job. The incident happened in Shopian villages of South Kashmir.  Police sourced confirmed the incident. “During intervening night three constables identified as Jahangir Wagay, Faizan Wagay, and Danish Bhat, all residents of Nadpora […]

Planet Mars closest to Earth on July 31; similar only in 2035 : PSI

Planet Mars closest to Earth on July 31; similar only in 2035 : PSI

Hyderabad: Planet Mars will get closest to Earth in 15 years on Tuesday at 57.59 million km and next it will occur only in 2035, Planetary Society, India (PSI) said. PSI Director and Founder Secretary N Sri Raghunandan Kumar said that this closest approach is due once in 26 months celestial event ‘Mars Opposition to […]

Lawyers in Anantnag protest against ‘attempt to scrap Article 35-A’

Lawyers in Anantnag protest against ‘attempt to scrap Article 35-A’

Anantnag:- District Bar Association Anantnag, Islamabad Tuesday held a protest rally from court premises up to Lal Chowk against ‘attempts to scrap Article 35 A’. The protest was led by President Bar Association Anantnag Fayaz Sadogar and General Secretary Sheikh Irfan Gulzar, who said that any fiddling with  the article 35A will create ‘dire consequences […]

Amarnath yatra progressing smoothly, 2.63 lakh pilgrims pay obeisance so far

Amarnath yatra progressing smoothly, 2.63 lakh pilgrims pay obeisance so far

Srinagar: Fresh batches of pilgrims left base camps on Tuesday for the holy Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas, where so far 2.63 lakh yatris have paid obeisance since the commencement of the 60-day-long pilgrimage from June 28. Weather is pleasant and pilgrimage was progressing smoothly from the shortest and traditional Pahalgam tracks, official […]