Srinagar: RSS leader who was injured in an attack on Tuesday has succumbed to injuries. BJP Spokesperson Sunil Sethi confirmed that Chandrakant Sharma died at GMC Jammu. Medical Assistant Chandrakant Sharma working at Kishtwar district hospital was injured in an attack by unknown gunmen while his PSO was shot dead.
Srinagar: A Muslim man was allegedly beaten up and forced to eat pork by a group of people who were angry over his selling beef in Assam, police said Tuesday. Consumption of pork is a taboo among most Muslims. The victim, Shaukat Ali (48), was assaulted by a group of locals at Madhupur weekly market in […]
Jammu: Reminding the top NC leadership that former chief minister Sheikh Abdullah was jailed for anti national remarks in 1953, a BJP leader in Jammu and Kashmir Tuesday said those raising “similar anti-national remarks” should be booked under sedition and banned from contesting polls. Two-time minister Sham Lal Sharma, who recently resigned from the Congress and […]
Kishtwar: Army has been called for a flag march amid curfew in Kishtwar district following the attack on Bhartiya Janta Party’s ideological fountainhead Rashtriya Swayamsevak’ Sangh’s (RSS) leader inside a hospital where he works as a medical assistant. His Personal Security Officer (PSO) was killed on the spot in the attack while gunmen decamped with […]
Jerusalem: Israelis began voting Tuesday in the country’s most closely-fought election in years that could propel incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces the ignominy of being indicted in a series of graft cases, to become the longest serving premier in the Jewish state’s history. Over 10,000 polling stations opened around the country from 7:00 a.m. […]
Srinagar: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan Tuesday assailed what he described as the “moral bankruptcy” of Indian and Israeli political leadership, accusing the incumbent parties of harbouring ambitions to “illegally occupy land” in the West Bank and Kashmir in defiance of international laws and “their own constitutions” for votes as both countries head to polls this […]
Jammu: A Rashtriya Swayamasevak Sangh (RSS) was injured while his personal security officer died on Tuesday after unknown gunmen opened fire at them at District Hospital in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir. A police official said gunmen opened fire on Chandrakant Singh and his security guard, while Singh was critically injured, his security guard died. […]
Srinagar: A 37- year old activist of Peoples Conference was injured critically after he fell from a moving vehicle near Bakhihaker in Handwara area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Tuesday afternoon. Reports said that the man Mushtaq Ahmad Mir son of Ghulam Mohammad Mir, a resident of Bhawan Watser, Rajwar suddenly fell off from a […]
The United States put Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on its list of “terrorist groups” on Monday. The move against another country’s armed forces is bound to rachet up tensions with Tehran. Here’s what you need to know. What is the Revolutionary Guard and what does it do? The IRGC is an elite wing of […]
Tehran: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday that the United States was the real “leader of world terrorism” after Washington blacklisted Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as a “foreign terrorist organisation”. “Who are you to label revolutionary institutions as terrorists?” Rouhani asked in a speech broadcast live by state television. “You want to use terrorist groups as tools […]
