Islamabad: Pakistan’s Chief Justice Saqib Nisar on Wednesday said that the Supreme Court will not allow Indian content to be shown on Pakistani TV channels as it “damages our culture”. Chief Justice Nisar made the remarks while hearing an appeal filed by the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) against a high court’s decision to […]
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullah Wednesday welcomed IAS topper Shah Faesal into politics and termed it a “loss to bureaucracy and gain to politics”. Omar tweeted: “The bureaucracy’s loss is politics’ gain. Welcome to the fold @shahfaesal.” “Actually I welcomed him to the fold of politicians. His future […]
Srinagar: Kashmir’s first IAS topper (2010 batch) on Wednesday tendered his resignations to protest against the “unabated killings” in Kashmir, and lack of any sincere reach-out from the Union Government. Taking to social networking site Facebook, Faesal wrote: “The marginalization and invisiblization of around 200 million Indian Muslims at the hands of Hindutva forces reducing […]
Srinagar: The armies of India and Pakistan exchanged heavy fire and shelling along the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir Wednesday, reports said. Local reports said that the firing started in Kalal area of Nowshera and later the two sides fired mortars to target each other. The sound of explosions […]
Srinagar: Indian Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat welcomed peace talks with the Afghan Taliban as long as they did not have any “preconditions” attached to them, The Hindu reported on Wednesday. Rawat was speaking at the Raisina Dialogue — an annual multilateral conference arranged in New Delhi jointly by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs […]
Srinagar: The Centre has extended special concessions and incentives, including departmental arrangements for stay, security and transportation, for central government employees working in Kashmir valley for two more years till 2020, according to an order issued by the Personnel Ministry. The move is aimed at encouraging more employees to work in the valley, officials said. The […]
Srinaagr: A four-year-old boy died while his six-months-old sister was injured after a portion of their home collapsed on them in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district Wednesday, police said. The incident took place in Mendhar belt of the district, Station House Officer (SHO) Iniyat Hussain said. Kamran died on the spot while his sister Anika was […]
Srinagar :Dozens of far-flung and remote areas, including those near the Line of Control (LoC), remained cut off for the fifth successive day on Wednesday from their respective districts and tehsil headquarters in north Kashmir due accumulation of snow and slippery road conditions. Traffic on the roads, connecting border town of Keran and Tanghdar, besides dozens […]
Shopian,Jan 9: Government forces on Wednesday launched a cordon-and-search operation (CASO) in Heff area of south Kashmir’s Shopian district. A police official said a joint team of army, Central Reserve Police Force and SOG men ring-fenced Heff village of the district and began a door to door search operation. The operation, according to the official, […]
Srinagar: The Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged gunfire at forward posts along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir Wednesday. The two armies have resorted to shelling at each others posts for the fourth time in last two days. On Tuesday, the two armies exchanged fire and shelled the cross-LoC military […]
