Srinagar: A man from Haryana, claiming to be an activist of the Akali Dal, was Saturday taken into preventive custody by police at Lal Chowk here as he was shouting slogans. Deepak Sharma was taken into custody near the iconic Clock Tower at Lal Chowk in the early hours as he was shouting slogans like […]
Jaipur: Paying homage to CRPF personnel killed in the Pulwama attack, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Saturday peace in the world is not possible if terrorism continues. Speaking at a rally in Rajasthan’s Tonk district, he said a strong consensus has been reached against “terrorism” today and the entire world is with the families of […]
Bandipora: Nine persons sustained injuries on Saturday after the vehicle they were traveling in met with an accident in Putshay area of North Kashmir’s Bandipora district . Reports said that a vehicle bearing registration number JK02P-7845 was on its way to Sopore when the driver of the vehicle lost control and vehicle turned turtle. In the […]
Srinagar: The National Conference Saturday took out a protest march here against the intimidation and harassment of the people of Kashmir outside the valley and demanded such attacks be immediately stopped. Scores of NC activists, led by party general secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar, assembled at the party headquarters ‘Nawai-Subah’ here and took out a protest march. […]
Srinagar: A Delhi court on Saturday deferred the hearing on the bail plea of Hurriyat leader Shabir Ahmad Shah till April 2. Shah is lodged in Tihar Jail in a decade-old money laundering case. The court of Additional Sessions Judge Satish Kumar Arora had on February 18 sought response from the Enforcement Directorate on Shah’s […]
Srinagar: The Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) Saturday condemned the stopping of government advertisements to two English dailies– Greater Kashmir and Kashmir Reader, calling the move as a futile attempt to ‘manipulate the news narrative.’ In a statement issued today, a KCCI spokesperson said the move is an attempt to interfere in the […]
Srinagar: Former Indian spy chief AS Dulat has said on Friday that war was not a picnic and asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to weigh his widely speculated options against Pakistan with preference for an aggressive diplomacy. His views published by National Herald newspaper tallied with former Congress home minister P Chidambaram who said the […]
Srinagar: Nearly 150 people, mainly from the Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir including its chief Abdul Hamid Fayaz, were detained during the intervening night of Friday and Saturday as tension gripped the Valley ahead of a hearing by the Supreme Court on Article 35A of the Constitution. Though police termed the detentions as routine saying that leaders […]
After Pulwama, a suffocation has gripped India. Not to put too fine a point on this, political opinion now operates under the disconcerting thought that Pakistan is in some significant sense, winning. The anger against Pakistan is justified. But what we are witnessing in India is more a paroxysm of self-loathing rather than […]
Washington: US President Donald trump has said he may host his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at his personal Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida next month to discuss the final terms of a trade deal that is being negotiated by the two countries. The world’s two largest economies are locked in a trade war since Trump imposed heavy […]
