Allahabad: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday announced that very soon Allahabad would be known as Prayagraj as demanded by the saints and others. The CM made this announcement before the media after the meeting of the Kumbh Margdarshak Mandal here. The CM said state governor Ram Naik had already supported the demands […]
Islamabad: By-elections on 35 constituencies of National and provincial assemblies which is scheduled to be held on Sunday, Oct 14 would first time witness casting of vote by overseas Pakistan nationals. 370 candidates from various constituencies are in the run for elections to be held on 11 national assembly and 24 provincial assembly seats. The […]
Srinagar: Pakistan’s Minister for Human Rights Shireen M Mazari has reiterated her country’s stand towards the ongoing freedom struggle in Jammu and Kashmir and accused India of committing “human rights violations in the disputed state”, Pakistani daily The News reported. Mazari said this in a meeting with a delegation of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) […]
Srinagar: Nine children, including seven girls, were killed and two others injured when a wall of a mud house near which they were playing collapsed on them in Pakistan’s Sukkur district, police said. The incident happened Thursday at Ghulam Sarwar Shambani village. The children were aged between four and 12 years, they said. “An inquiry […]
New Delhi: Income Tax Department sleuths raided media giant Raghav Bahl’s home and office on Thursday in connection with a case of “bogus long term capital gains (LTCG)’ received by various beneficiaries. Raghav Bahl is the founder of The Quint and the Network18 group. Bahl on the matter tweeted,’I have a matter of great concern […]
Srinagar: The Pakistan army’s media wing on Wednesday announced that Lt Gen Asim Munir has been appointed the new director general (DG) of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Dawn reported. Following reports that former DG ISI Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar would be retiring, various sections of the media speculated that Lt Gen Munir was next in […]
Srinagar:The government had recently passed the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Ordinance, 2018, which makes instant triple talaq an offence .Police have registered a case here against a man for allegedly giving instant triple talaq to his wife over phone over the dowry issue.The man currently lives in Saudi Arabia, police said Thursday. […]
Srinagar: Blaming Pakistan for the unrest in Jammu and Kashmir, Home Minister Rajnath Singh Friday claimed that 90 per cent people in the state would like to participate the panchayat and urban local bodies polls scheduled this month. Singh said approximately 6,000 violence related incidents had taken place in Jammu and Kashmir in 1995 and […]
Srinagar: Police has booked over 350 students for rioting and related offences at Sharda University in Greater Noida after a Kashmiri student was beaten up at the varsity campus on Thursday. A police official, who did not wish to be named, alleged lack of cooperation from the university and said, “The officials of the deemed […]
Islamabad: Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has asserted that the government’s effort of bringing back peace in Afghanistan should not be overlooked as peace in Afghanistan was linked with peace in Pakistan. Speaking at United States Institute of Peace on Wednesday, Mr Qureshi, as quoted by Express Tribune, said that Pakistan was willing to […]
