Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday said that US should learn lessons from Iraq and leave Syria, and that he would recover areas of Syria held by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Reuters reported In an interview with Russia Today, Assad also said the government had “started now opening doors for negotiations” with the […]
Srinagar: Suspected militants attacked an army patrol in Qaziabad forests of north Kashmir’s Handawara area on late Wednesday evening, official sources said. The army retaliated the firing triggering a brief exchange of gunfire between the both sides, the official sources said. So far no causality was reported from the area, they added
Srinagar: Deputy Chief Minister, Kavinder Gupta Wednesday said that people should forget Kashmir’s merger with Pakistan and India will take back the Pakistan-administered-Kashmir. Talking to reporters in Srinagar, Gupta said that it was not for the first time that a hand of friendship was extended to Pakistan from this side, but such offers made in […]
Srinagar: Terming the action of state authorities to curb the political sentiment as “barbaric and vile actions of brutality,”Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) has asked people to observe complete shutdown on the coming Saturday against the desecration of graveyards, religious places, razing of houses and chopping of orchards by the government forces. The trio including, Syed Ali […]
Srinagar: The Tourism Enforcement Wing of Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday busted a fake Travel Agency by the name of “Al Shama Holidays”. In a statement issued here police said that in its investigation it found that a fake Travel Agency by the name of “Al Shama Holidays” being run by one Umar Shah son […]
Srinagar: The Grand Mufti (designate) of Kashmir Mufti Nasir ul Islam Wednesday lambasted New Delhi for its ‘dual’ nature and termed the dialogue offer as ambiguous and doubtful. Grand mufti said that there was no consensus in Delhi over talks offer as both Rajnath Singh and Sushma Swaraj had issued contradictory statements regarding the dialogue […]
Srinagar: A special court of Central Bureau Investigation on Wednesday convicted five persons including former J&K DSP and DIG, Border Security Force and acquitted two in the 2006 Jammu-Kashmir sex scandal case. The guilty include former JK police Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Mohammed Ashraf Mir, former Deputy inspector general of police (DIG) BSF, KC Padhi, while […]
Brussels: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) in a statement from its Brussels headquarters has strongly condemned the murder of the Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko in Kiev, Ukraine. Babchenko, 41, was shot and killed on May 29, 2018. “His wife found him bleeding at their apartment, but he died in the ambulance on his way […]
Suspected militants on Wednesday hurled a grenade towards the residence of National conference leader Mohammad Ashraf Bhat in Tral of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. No loss of life or property has been reported.
Brussels: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned an Israeli draft law that seeks to criminalise the recording, photographing and filming of Israeli soldiers on duty, a statement issued by the IFJ in Brussels said. The bill, entitled the “Prohibition against photographing and documenting [Israeli army] soldiers”, comes as a response to a […]
