New Delhi: Criticising the criminalisation aspect of the Triple Talaq Bill, Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday said that the Bill was not for protection of Muslim women but to fill up prisons. Speaking during a debate on the Triple Talaq Bill in the Upper House, Azad said,’’ […]
17 people, including five crew members and 12 civilians, died after a Pakistan Army aviation aircraft on a routine training flight crashed into a residential area in Rawalpindi near the capital Islamabad. “A small plane crashed into a residential area. So far we have retrieved 17 dead bodies, including 12 civilians and five crew members,” rescue […]
Karachi/Peshawar: At least 10 persons, including four children and a woman, were killed in separate incidents after incessant rain lashed parts of Pakistan, authorities said. In Sindh province, at least three persons were killed due to electrocution in different parts of Pakistan’s biggest city, Karachi, which also witnessed severe power outages, police said on Monday. […]
Mumbai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will feature in a special episode of Discovery’s “Man Vs Wild” which will highlight “issues related to environmental change.” According to a statement from the channel, the special episode, featuring adventurer Bear Grylls and shot in India’s Jim Corbett National Park, will be a “frank and freewheeling journey” which will […]
Chhapra: Seven minor boys drowned in a water-filled pit in Bihar’s Saran district, police said. Two others were rescued by some locals who rushed to the spot after the incident, that occurred at Doila village under Isuapur police station limits on Sunday, Saran Superintendent of Police (SP) Hari Kishore Rai said. “The boys were spotted […]
A 15-year-old Muslim boy was set on fire by four people in Chandauli district when the boy refused to chant “Jai Shri Ram”. The incident took place on Sunday night and the boy has been admitted in Kabir Chaura hospital in Varanasi. The condition of the boy with 60 per cent burns is said to […]
Srinagar: The Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) has called a meeting of its Jammu and Kashmir unit’s core group on July 30 to discuss the political atmosphere in the state. Sources said Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, union minister Jitendra Singh, BJP general secretary Ram Madhav and state unit president Ravinder Raina and […]
Ten personnel of the Pakistan armed forces, including an officer, were killed in two separate attacks in North Waziristan tribal district and Balochistan, the military’s media wing said on Saturday. In the first incident, six Pakistan Army soldiers were killed when terrorists from across the Afghan border opened fire on a border patrolling party near […]
Days after the meeting between President Donald Trump and Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, the Pentagon notified the Congress on Friday of its decision to approve military sales worth USD 125 million that would result in 24×7 end-use monitoring of the F-16 fighter jets of Pakistan. “The State Department has made a determination approving a […]
At least seven people were reportedly killed and three injured in separate rain-related incidents as torrential rain continue across Pakistan. According to rescue sources, one woman along her one-year-old boy lost their lives as rainwater flooded their house’s basement in Rawalpindi. Another young boy drowned while swimming near the Sehala Bridge, Express Tribune reported. Separately, […]
