Month: September 2026

Jammu Road Safety Crisis: 215 Deaths in 2025 Raise Questions Over Black Spots, Enforcement and Infrastructure

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Jammu Road Safety Crisis: 215 Deaths in 2025 Raise Questions Over Black Spots, Enforcement and Infrastructure

Jammu’s Road Safety Crisis: Hundreds Die, Black Spots Persist and the Same Questions Return By: News Desk | 07 September 2026 Jammu is not short of road-safety campaigns, traffic challans or government committees. The harder question is whether the system is fixing the conditions that repeatedly turn mistakes on the road into deaths. Every serious road crash in Jammu tends to produce the same sequence. There is shock. Then anger. Officials visit the site. Traffic police step up checking. Authorities announce a special drive. Politicians demand action. Families grieve. For…

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From ‘Exploitation’ to ‘Ground the Airlines’: How One PIL Pushed India Toward Airfare Regulation

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From 'Exploitation' to 'Ground the Airlines': How One PIL Pushed India Toward Airfare Regulation

Airfare Regulation in India: How a Year-Long Supreme Court Battle Reached Its Deadline Moment By: News Desk | 07 September 2026 A single PIL filed nearly a year ago has slowly forced India’s government to admit something uncomfortable: nobody actually has the legal authority to stop an airline from charging whatever it wants. If you’ve ever watched a domestic airfare double in the 48 hours before a festival, or paid more for a checked bag than you did for the flight itself, you’ve experienced exactly what a quietly escalating Supreme…

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J&K Bank’s Big Lending Shift: Why 30.9% Growth Outside J&K Is Raising Questions at Home

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J&K Bank's Big Lending Shift: Why 30.9% Growth Outside J&K Is Raising Questions at Home

J&K Bank Lending Row: 30.9% Growth Outside J&K vs 9.3% in UT Raises Questions Over Local Credit By: News Desk | 06 September 2026 As J&K Bank posts record ₹2,363 crore profit, the sharp difference in credit growth between its home market and operations outside the Union Territory has triggered a wider debate over profitability, local development and the bank’s historic role in Jammu & Kashmir Srinagar: The numbers tell a story that is difficult to ignore. Jammu & Kashmir Bank ended the financial year 2025-26 with its highest-ever annual…

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Delhi Building Collapse in Satya Niketan: 6 Dead, 13 Rescued as Rescue Ops Enter Day 2

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Delhi Building Collapse in Satya Niketan: 6 Dead, 13 Rescued as Rescue Ops Enter Day 2

Delhi Building Collapse in Satya Niketan: 6 Dead, 13 Rescued as Rescue Operation Enters Day 2 By: News Desk | 06 September 2026 NEW DELHI: The dust had barely settled over Satya Niketan on Sunday afternoon when a busy student neighbourhood near Delhi University’s South Campus turned into a rescue zone. A multi-storey building being used as a boys’ paying guest accommodation collapsed around 1:30 pm on September 6, trapping students and other occupants beneath tonnes of concrete and rubble. What followed was an overnight operation involving the Delhi Fire…

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J&K Sex-Racket Raids Raise Bigger Questions: Is Human Trafficking Hiding Behind Legitimate Businesses?

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J&K Sex-Racket Raids Raise Bigger Questions: Is Human Trafficking Hiding Behind Legitimate Businesses?

J&K Sex-Racket Raids Put Human Trafficking, Exploitation and Victim Protection Under Spotlight By: News Desk | 06 September 2026 Recent police raids in Jammu, arrests in alleged prostitution cases and earlier trafficking investigations involving Srinagar are exposing a darker question: how effectively can Jammu and Kashmir distinguish organised exploitation from consensual adult sex work while protecting women and children caught in criminal networks? The latest raids may have begun with intelligence inputs and searches of private premises, but the larger story is considerably more complicated. Across Jammu and Kashmir, police…

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Justice Sanjay Kumar Agrawal Appointed Rajasthan High Court Chief Justice: What the Judicial Shake-Up Means

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Justice Sanjay Kumar Agrawal Appointed Rajasthan High Court Chief Justice: What the Judicial Shake-Up Means

Centre clears Justice Sanjay Kumar Agrawal’s appointment after Supreme Court Collegium recommendation, amid an unusual controversy surrounding Rajasthan High Court’s acting Chief Justice By: News Desk | 06 September 2026 Justice Sanjay Kumar Agrawal Is Rajasthan High Court’s New Chief Justice: Why the Appointment Matters The Rajasthan High Court is set for a change at the top at a moment when questions about the court’s internal administration have drawn unusual public attention. On September 5, President Droupadi Murmu approved the appointment of Justice Sanjay Kumar Agrawal as the Chief Justice…

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J&K Declared Fully Literate Under ULLAS: The 98.43% Milestone and What Comes Next

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J&K Declared Fully Literate Under ULLAS: The 98.43% Milestone and What Comes Next

J&K Declared Fully Literate Under ULLAS: The 98.43% Milestone and What Comes Next By: News Desk | 05 September 2026 Srinagar: A classroom milestone in Jammu and Kashmir has taken on a much bigger meaning. The Union Territory has been declared “Fully Literate” under the Centre’s ULLAS-Nav Bharat Saaksharta Karyakram, with Education Minister Sakina Itoo highlighting a literacy figure of 98.43 per cent at a Teachers’ Day programme in Srinagar. Itoo made the announcement at the Sher-i-Kashmir International Convention Centre (SKICC), crediting teachers, education officers, volunteers and, most importantly, adult…

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Ladakh Apex Body Warns of ‘Bigger Agitation’ Ahead of September 9 MHA Talks: What Is at Stake for Ladakh?

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Ladakh Apex Body Warns of ‘Bigger Agitation’ Ahead of September 9 MHA Talks: What Is at Stake for Ladakh?

Centre-Ladakh talks could become a decisive test of trust as LAB and KDA seek statehood, constitutional safeguards, an elected legislature and justice over last year’s violence By: News Desk | 04 September 2026 Ladakh’s September 9 Moment: Talks With Delhi Could Decide What Comes Next For Ladakh’s political leadership, September 9 is no longer just another date on the negotiation calendar. It is becoming a test of whether years of dialogue with New Delhi can produce something tangible. The Leh Apex Body (LAB), one of the principal civil society platforms…

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CJP Protest at Parliament Street: Swatantra Bhardwaj Row Puts Delhi Police Under Scrutiny

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CJP Protest at Parliament Street: Swatantra Bhardwaj Row Puts Delhi Police Under Scrutiny

CJP Protest at Parliament Street: Swatantra Bhardwaj Row Puts Delhi Police Under Fresh Scrutiny By: Javid Amin | 04 September 2026 A confrontation at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar in June has returned to the political spotlight after a video in which self-styled Hindutva influencer Swatantra Bhardwaj allegedly boasted about injuring the father of student activist Nishu Azad triggered a fresh demand for police action. The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) is set to visit Parliament Street Police Station in New Delhi on September 4, seeking stronger action against Bhardwaj in connection with…

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Kashmir Walnut Harvest Turns Deadly: Four Workers Die in Tree Falls as Safety Concerns Grow

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Kashmir Walnut Harvest Turns Deadly: Four Workers Die in Tree Falls as Safety Concerns Grow

Kashmir’s Walnut Harvest Turns Deadly Again: Four Workers Die as Farmers Demand Safer Orchards By: News Desk | 03 September 2026 Four fatal falls in Qazigund, Tral, Uri and Pulwama at the start of the 2026 walnut season have revived a long-standing question: why does harvesting one of Kashmir’s most valuable crops still require workers to climb trees 40–75 feet high with little protection? Srinagar: The first walnuts of autumn should normally signal the beginning of one of Kashmir’s most important agricultural seasons. Instead, this year’s harvest has opened with…

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