Hindustan Times

1 day ago | hindustantimes.com | Smriti Kak Ramachandran

NEW DELHI: Union defence minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday said India has a “zero tolerance” policy towards terrorism and the government will take “every necessary and appropriate step” to bring the perpetrators to book. “And we will not only trace those who perpetrated this incident. We will also reach out to those who, sitting behind the scenes, have conspired to carry out the nefarious act on the soil of India,” he said, speaking at the Arjan Singh Memorial Lecture.

1 day ago | hindustantimes.com | Jayashree Nandi

Heatwave conditions are likely to grip central India and the plains of northwest India till April 29 and over eastern India till April 26, the India Meteorological Department warned on Wednesday. There is likely to be a gradual rise in maximum temperatures by 2-3 degrees Celsius over northwest and eastern India over the next seven days, the weather department said in its forecast.

1 day ago | hindustantimes.com | Neeraj Santoshi

A 26-year-old Nepal national was among the 26 people who died in the terrorist attack which took place in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam region on Tuesday. Recalling the devastating development, Dadhiraj Neupane, uncle of Sudip Neupane from Kathmandu said that no mother should have to go through the pain to come home without her son. “She is devastated with the loss of her son.

1 day ago | hindustantimes.com | Senjuti SenGupta

A chartered accountant (CA)-based in Dubai, was among the 26 people killed during a terror attack in Kashmir’s Pahalgam on Tuesday. “He came to attend a wedding function in Chandigarh. The Kashmir trip was suddenly planned. Wish he never had this plan,” recalled Prakash Udhwani, the uncle of 33-year-old Neeraj Udhwani. Neeraj moved to Dubai from Jaipur with his parents when he was three years old. After his father, Pradeep Udhwani’s death ten years ago, Neeraj continued his job in Dubai.

1 day ago | hindustantimes.com | Smriti Kak Ramachandran

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who arrived in New Delhi on Wednesday from Saudi Arabia, after cutting short his state visit, has cancelled a scheduled programme in Uttar Pradesh. The development comes a day after 26 people were killed in a terrorist attack in Pahalgam on Tuesday. According to people aware of the details, the prime minister was scheduled to visit Kanpur on Thursday to inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for development projects worth ₹20,000 crore.