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Not a seat left vacant as J&K’s all-new Vande Bharat makes first journey from Katra to Srinagar

The train was 100% booked within hours of launch by PM Modi Friday on the eve of Eid-ul-Adha. The return journey is also fully booked, as are the journeys on Sunday.

1st ever passenger train reaches Kashmir, carrying troops returning from leave

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was to inaugurate the Katra-Srinagar train service last month but his trip got postponed due to bad weather.

Vaishno Devi ropeway plan throws up a question for Katra. Is it a picnic spot or pilgrimage?

Unlike the past initiatives such as battery-powered cars from Ardhkunwari to Bhawan and helicopter rides, the ropeway project is being seen as the biggest killer of local businesses.

Once custodians of Vaishno Devi temple, Baridars resent ‘unfulfilled promise’, warn BJP of poll defeat

The 15,000-strong community demands a resolution to decades-long Vaishno Devi shrine issue. But BJP hopes that it will be rewarded for carving out Vaishno Devi as a constituency.

On Camera

Period pain is real. Blanket menstrual leave policy isn’t a fix

The Supreme Court is right to point out the 'mindset of employers', who, because of this policy, may deduce that 'women are inferior.'

A war in the Gulf, a crisis in Gujarat’s Morbi: India’s ceramics capital counts the cost

Morbi makes 80-90% of India’s ceramic exports. The West Asia conflict has cut its propane supply, shutting 200 factories and threatening 400 more—along with 9 lakh livelihoods.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Trump brings the Age of Humiliation for friends. Modi needs stoicism abroad, humility at home

Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.