Srinagar: Former PDP legislator Aijaz Ahmad Mir has been summoned by National Investigation Agency (NIA) in the weapons loot investigation. Mir, who won assembly election from wachi constituency of South Kashmir, has to appear before NIA investigators on April 12 in Jammu. Seven Ak 47 rifles were looted from PDP legislator’s official residence in Srinagar […]
Peoples Conference Chairman Sajad Gani Lone on Tuesday claimed that Omar Abdullah met the top Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) leadership after the 2014 elections for more than two and half hours and sought support to become the Chief Minister. He was answering the question that he had put to Omar Abdullah in a rally at […]
Srinagar: After exempting employees, students, tourists and other emergency cases, the government on Tuesday exempted learned advocates of High Court and other courts and all medical emergencies from the restriction order on highway on every Wednesdays and Sundays. Earlier, the government had issued an order, directing that no civilian traffic would be allowed to ply […]
Srinagar: A Rashtriya Swayamasevak Sangh (RSS) leader and his personal security officer were killed by unknown gunman in Kihstwar area of Jammu region. The attack happened inside the premises of District Hospital Kishtwar. The deceased cop was identified as Rajinder Kumar, a Personal Security Officer (PSO) of RSS leader Chandrakant Singh, who was also a […]
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 […]
