Srinagar: After back to back six rounds of funeral prayers, the slain militant Majid Manzoor Dar, who was killed in a gunfight along with his three associates was laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard at Talangam village in Pulwama district on Saturday morning. Witnesses said that the slain was laid to rest amid pro-freedom […]
Srinagar: Secretary J&K State Sports Council Waheed Ur Rehman Para on Friday resigned from his post after submitting his resignation to Jammu & Kashmir Governor at Raj Bhawan. “His term as secretary, Sports Council was expiring on 11-08-2019 as per the constitution (pre-Revised) of the sports council,” the statement said. “During his tenure as Secretary […]
Dhaka: At least 16 people were killed and 40 others injured when a bus hit a roadside tree and overturned in Bangladesh’s Gaibandha’s Palashbari Upazila district on Saturday. The accident occurred on the Rangpur-Dhaka Highway in the Bashkata (Gorurhat) area near the BRAC intersection around 0430 hrs, said Govindganj Highway Police Officer in-charge (OC) Akhtaruzzaman. […]
Srinagar: Former J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday while claiming that a number of political appointees to various organizations and bodies are still to come to terms with the demise of the coalition government said “they are clinging on to their chairs but at who’s pleasure are they serving now that their CM has resigned”. Omar […]
Srinagar: Reacting sharply to Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad’s claim that more militants were killed by security forces in the state after BJP-led NDA came to power, vice-president of National Conference (NC) Omar Abdullah said actually this tells the story of how the former’s government allowed “militancy and violence to re-emerge in J&K”, forcing […]
Delhi: The South Asia Media Defenders Network (SAMDEN), while denouncing the brutal killing of senior journalist Shujaat Bukhari, urged the NHRC and the Jammu and Kashmir State Human Rights Commission to “push for swift investigation” into the case, media reports said. Bukhari, was killed along with his two PSOs in Press Enclave here in Srinagar […]
Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday stressed the need for export-led growth for India to become a 5 trillion dollars economy, saying that the country’s share in world trade need to rise to at least 3.4 per cent from the current 1.6 per cent and states must be made active partners in this effort. […]
Srinagar: Authorities on Saturday suspended train service again on third day as a precautionary measure in the Kashmir valley, keeping in view the killing of four militants, civilian and a police cop in Anantnag district. Train service was resumed only on Friday morning after remaining suspended for a day. However, after encounter broke out in […]
Washington: The death toll in Nicaragua during two months of anti-government unrest has risen to 212, media reports said quoting Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. “Nicaragua has not fulfilled its international obligations to respect, protect and guarantee human rights in the context of the social protests that began on April 18,” the rights body said […]
Srinagar: Dawood Sofi, alias Burhan, was a 26 year old middle class boy who left his studies mid-way to work as a businessman, but ended becoming the chief of Islamic State (IS) of Jammu and Kashmir. Hailing from Mustafabad area of Srinagar, Dawood was raised in comfort by his parents and two elder brothers. “He […]
