Srinagar: Nine Afghan policemen were killed after Taliban fighters stormed their checkpoints and launched a follow-up ambush in the eastern Afghanistan city of Ghazni, officials said on Saturday. The assault began early on Friday when the Afghan Taliban attacked two adjacent checkpoints, Ghazni police spokesman Ahmad Khan Seerat told AFP. The Afghan Taliban then ambushed […]
Srinagar: After for the first time the Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association was on Saturday stopped from holding a seminar on the “martyrdom” anniversary of advocate Jaleel Andrabi at District Court Complex in Srinagar, the Bar association has criticised Principal District and Sessions Srinagar Abdul Rashid Malik for disallowing the seminar stating that […]
Jammu: In a set back to Congress, its senior leader and former state vice president Sham Lal Sharma on Saturday joined Bharatiya Janata Party in Jammu. Sharma was welcomed into the party by BJP National Vice-President & J&K incharge Avinash Rai Khanna, State President Ravinder Raina and other senior leaders. Reports quoting sources said that Sharma […]
Srinagar: A mysterious blast in a private car on Saturday created panic on the Kashmir highway. A police official said that a Santra car exploded completely destroyed the vehicle. Although the cause of the explosion could not be ascertained immediately, reports said that the officials present on the spot have recovered urea, an oil bottle, […]
New York: An Indian former Roman Catholic priest has been sentenced to six years in prison for sexually abusing a teenage girl in the US, according to a media report. John Praveen, 38, pleaded guilty in February to sexually touching a 13-year-old girl in the Rapid City church, South Dakota over her clothes last year, Rapid […]
Ahmedabad: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh Saturday asked if former prime minister Indira Gandhi can be credited for dividing Pakistan, why shouldn’t Prime Minister Narendra Modi get the credit for the Balakot air strike. Singh was addressing a rally here in support of BJP president Amit Shah, who will file his nomination from Gandhinagar Lok Sabha […]
Srinagar: Stating that bad roads have further damaged Kashmir’s economy and normal life of multiple fronts, the Kashmir Economic Alliance Chairman Muhammad Yasin Khan said the road connectivity has been dragged back to primitive times. In a statement Khan who also heads the (KTMF) Kashmir Traders and Manufacturers Federation said from hampering normal life to affecting business, […]
Srinagar: Pakistan has warned against politicisation of the United Nations’ counter-terrorism machinery, saying such a course would only compromise the integrity of the system. “It is important that current structures like FATF (Financial Action Task Force) and the 1267 Sanctions regimes are not used as political tools by some to advance their geopolitical goals,” Ambassador Dr […]
Srinagar: Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Friday constituted a Multi-Disciplinary Terror Monitoring Group (TMG), comprising of 8 members, to “ensure synergised and concerted action against terror financing and other terror-related activities in Jammu and Kashmir”. The Terror Monitoring Group will be headed by additional DGP of Jammu and Kashmir-CID. The TMG will take coordinated action […]
Srinagar: A trooper of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) was found dead inside a CRPF camp in Kunzer area of North Kashmir’s Baramulla on Saturday. “Police suspect the trooper committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with his service rifle,” reports said. The deceased, identified as Sub Inspector Chander Mani of ITBP’s 4th Adhoc G […]
