Srinagar: Sopore town in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district recorded lowest turnout till 3 PM in all Constituencies for Baramulla seat in Lok Sabha polls where election is underway. As per the official statement 3376 votes were casted out of 111928 votes in Sopore till 3 PM which is lowest turnout among all constituencies so far for […]
Srinagar: French Ambassador Alexandre Ziegler on Thursday dismissed as “fake news” reports that a batch of Pakistani pilots was trained on Rafale fighter jets being procured by Qatari Air Force. American aviation industry website ainonline.Com reported that the first batch of pilots trained on the Rafale fighter jet for Qatar in November 2017 were Pakistani […]
Islamabad: A Pakistani high court on Thursday declared that the two Hindu teenage sisters were not forcibly converted from Hinduism to Islam, and permitted them to live with their spouses, according to a media report. The two girls, Raveena (13) and Reena (15), and their spouses petitioned the Islamabad High Court on March 25 against alleged […]
Srinagar: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, CNN reported on Thursday. The Metropolitan Police said its officers went into the embassy, where Assange has been living for the past seven years, to detain him for “failing to surrender to the court” over a warrant issued in 2012. He […]
Srinagar: Mehbooba Mufti Thursday alleged that a voter was manhandled by armed forces in Jammu after he refused to cast vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party. “A voter at polling booth in Jammu was manhandled by the BSF because he refused to cast his vote for BJP. Using armed forces at polling stations to coerce people […]
Kailimpong: Hitting out at opposition leaders for being “unhappy” with air strikes on terror camps, BJP president Amit Shah on Thursday said his party would remove Article 370 from Kashmir “after forming the next BJP government” at the Centre. Criticising West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for questioning the Balakot air strikes in a bid to […]
Jammu: The National Conference and the PDP on Thursday alleged that uniformed personnel coerced people to vote for the BJP and EVMs malfunctioned in some places with the Congress button not working during the first phase of polling in Jammu’s Poonch area. PDP president Mehbooba Mufti tweeted a video showing voters raising anti-BJP slogans after they […]
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Police has detained several over-ground workers (OGWs) for interrogation in connection with the killing of an RSS leader and his PSO in Kishtwar district, a senior officer said Thursday. Chanderkant Sharma (52), a senior RSS functionary and his security guard were killed on Tuesday when a gunman opened fire at a health […]
Hyderabad: AIMIM president Assadduddin Owaisi Thursday hit out at Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan over his remarks about India’s general elections, saying he has no right to interfere in the country’s electoral process. During an interaction with foreign journalists in Islamabad on Wednesday, Khan said he believed there may be a better chance of peace talks […]
Srinagar: 30.42 percent votes have been cast in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district till 1 pm. Officials said that in Karnah 13165 votes were cast, while as in Kupwara a total of 39177 votes have been polled out of total 134183 registered votes. “Lolab stood at 30783 votes, Handwara had cast 36084 votes, and in Langate 14974 votes […]
