New Delhi: Cricketer-turned-Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Saturday made a big U-turn over his decision to visit Kartarpur and said he never went there on the directives of Congress President Rahul Gandhi. “Get your facts right before you distort them. Rahul Gandhi Ji never asked me to go to Pakistan,” Mr Sidhu tweeted. “The […]
Kabul:The US has dropped around 6,000 bombs in Afghanistan this year so far. The US forces released 5,982 munitions in Afghanistan and the coalition aircraft flew nearly 6,600 times between the start of 2018 and end of October, of which about 12 per cent carried out strikes during that period, as per figures by the […]
Srinagar: The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) Saturday urged people of Kashmir to observe human rights week from December 3 to 9 by holding candlelight vigils to highlight the “human rights violations”. A JRL statement appealed the people to lit candles outside mosques in their localities after evening prayers from December 3-9. Condemning the arrests and search […]
Srinagar: A panchayat ghar was set ablaze by unidentified persons in this north Kashmir district, official sources said here. A building, housing panchayat at Heewan Sheeri in Baramulla, was set afire by unidentified persons on Friday night. However, fire tenders were rushed to the spot from different areas to douse the flames. Local and police […]
Srinagar: Class work resumed on Saturday after remaining suspended in the Islamic University of Science and Technology (IUST), Awantipora, in south Kashmir. Class work and all scheduled examinations of the university were postponed on Thursday after several buses were damaged due to stone pelting on Wednesday afternoon by demonstrators who hit the streets near the university […]
Srinagar: Facing reverses in their traditional stronghold, Naxals in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar have come up with a new strategy, apparently based on the Vietnamese model of guerrilla warfare, wherein effigies with fake guns are positioned strategically in the forest to take on the troopers. Naxals have suffered heavy casualties in a string of encounters with security forces […]
Srinagar: Noted legal luminary and columnist AG Noorani has said that National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party, the two main pro-India parties in Kashmir, should come together to safeguard the Kashmir’s special status. “They [the NC and the PDP] must draw up a joint declaration on Kashmir’s autonomy and its future course for a settlement of […]
Srinagar: Hundreds of vehicles, including trucks loaded with essential and oil tankers, left different parts of Jammu region for Kashmir valley on Saturday as only one-way traffic will continue to ply on the highway till further orders. Ladakh-bound vehicles stranded at Sonamarg in the central Kashmir district of Ganderbal, were allowed to leave to cross […]
Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference (M) chairperson Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was Saturday placed under house arrest while the head office of the amalgam at Rajbagh was also sealed. Hurriyat Conference (M) was supposed to hold a one-day workers convention at the head office. “One day #Hurriyat workers /delegate session barred! Put again under #HouseArrest! Rajbagh office of […]
Srinagar: The Governor’s Administration is contemplating to change the procedure for grant of Permanent Resident Certificates (PRC) and Revenue Department has dashed a communication to the Financial Commissioner Revenue, Divisional Commissioners and Deputy Commissioners seeking their comments and suggestions. Jammu based daily Excelsior quoting sources reported that Governor Satya Pal Malik is receiving complaints regarding undue […]
