The accountability court on Friday announced the verdict in the Avenfield corruption reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), handing ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif 10 years as jail time for owning assets beyond income and 1 year for not cooperating with NAB, Dawn reported. The sentences will run concurrently so he will serve […]
Srinagar : Jammu Kashmir Peoples League Chairman(JKPL) Mukhtar Ahmad Waza on Friday said that the settlement of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the aspirations of the Kashmiri people is essential for ensuring permanent peace in the region. He said that,Kashmir is a political and humanitarian issue “ it is our consistent stand that this […]
Srinagar: Former Finance Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Haseeb Drabu on Friday dismissed speculations that he had gone to Delhi to discuss possibilities of a new government formation in Kashmir. Ever since the fall of BJP-PDP government in Jammu and Kashmir and the seeming rebellion against the PDP by some of it’s MLAs, speculations have […]
Dhaka: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Friday approved a grant of $100 million to Bangladesh, the first half of an assistance package to develop basic infrastructure and services for refugees from neighbouring Myanmar, the bank said, Reuters reported. Bangladesh faces a challenge in managing refugee camps in its southern district of Cox’s Bazar, flooded […]
Srinagar: Joint resistance leadership on Friday called for a complete shutdown in Kashmir valley and asked people to observe civil curfew on Saturday over the shifting of chief of Dukhtaran-e- Milat Asiya Andrabi and two of her aides to New Delhi by National Investigation Agency (NIA). In a statement issued here the Joint Resistance leadership […]
Srinagar: Friday prayers were not allowed at the historic Jamia Masjid Srinagar Friday as authorities had imposed strict restrictions in the area. Earlier in the day government forces had closed all the roads leading to the Masjid and nobody was allowed to reach the worship place. All the shops and business establishments in Nowhatta and […]
Srinagar: Suspected militants on Friday hurled a grenade at the residence of National Conference Leader in south Kashmir’s Tral area of Pulwama district reports said. They said that the grenade exploded outside the residence of Mohammad Ashraf Bhat without causing any damage Local sources said that the grenade exploded after hitting Bhat’s neighbor’s house, however […]
Siliguri: Five people were killed, of them a mother and her three-and-half-year-old son, and eight others were injured seriously in two separate car accidents in north Bengal, police said today. Aparna Saha (27), her son Soumyadip Saha and driver Kamalesh Dutta (21) died on the spot and four other occupants in Alto critically wounded when […]
Islamabad: In a major setback to Pakistan’s ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif, the accountability court today dismissed his petition seeking to delay by a week the announcement of the verdict in one of the four corruption cases against him. The court said that the verdict in the avenfield corruption case — pertaining to the ownership of […]
Bangkok: A former Thai navy diver has died while taking part in efforts to rescue 12 boys and their football coach trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand, a BBC News report said on Friday. Petty Officer Saman Gunan lost consciousness on his way out of the Tham Luang cave complex, where he had been […]
