Delhi: Days after BJP pulled out of the PDP-led coalition regime in Jammu and Kashmir, BJP chief Amit Shah will be on a day-long visit of the Jammu region and also address a rally and celebrate Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Balidan-Divas in a big way. BJP’s Jammu and Kashmir unit chief Ravinder Raina said that Shah […]
Srinagar: Mobile Internet service was restored in Srinagar on Saturday following a day-long suspension after the killing of Islamic States Jammu and Kashmir chief in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district. The service was suspended as the news about the killing of Dawood Sofi alias Burhan along with three associates spread. The services has only been restored […]
Srinagar: After back to back six rounds of funeral prayers, the slain militant Majid Manzoor Dar, who was killed in a gunfight along with his three associates was laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard at Talangam village in Pulwama district on Saturday morning. Witnesses said that the slain was laid to rest amid pro-freedom […]
Srinagar: Secretary J&K State Sports Council Waheed Ur Rehman Para on Friday resigned from his post after submitting his resignation to Jammu & Kashmir Governor at Raj Bhawan. “His term as secretary, Sports Council was expiring on 11-08-2019 as per the constitution (pre-Revised) of the sports council,” the statement said. “During his tenure as Secretary […]
Dhaka: At least 16 people were killed and 40 others injured when a bus hit a roadside tree and overturned in Bangladesh’s Gaibandha’s Palashbari Upazila district on Saturday. The accident occurred on the Rangpur-Dhaka Highway in the Bashkata (Gorurhat) area near the BRAC intersection around 0430 hrs, said Govindganj Highway Police Officer in-charge (OC) Akhtaruzzaman. […]
Srinagar: Former J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday while claiming that a number of political appointees to various organizations and bodies are still to come to terms with the demise of the coalition government said “they are clinging on to their chairs but at who’s pleasure are they serving now that their CM has resigned”. Omar […]
Srinagar: Reacting sharply to Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad’s claim that more militants were killed by security forces in the state after BJP-led NDA came to power, vice-president of National Conference (NC) Omar Abdullah said actually this tells the story of how the former’s government allowed “militancy and violence to re-emerge in J&K”, forcing […]
Delhi: The South Asia Media Defenders Network (SAMDEN), while denouncing the brutal killing of senior journalist Shujaat Bukhari, urged the NHRC and the Jammu and Kashmir State Human Rights Commission to “push for swift investigation” into the case, media reports said. Bukhari, was killed along with his two PSOs in Press Enclave here in Srinagar […]
Srinagar: Authorities on Saturday suspended train service again on third day as a precautionary measure in the Kashmir valley, keeping in view the killing of four militants, civilian and a police cop in Anantnag district. Train service was resumed only on Friday morning after remaining suspended for a day. However, after encounter broke out in […]
Washington: The death toll in Nicaragua during two months of anti-government unrest has risen to 212, media reports said quoting Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. “Nicaragua has not fulfilled its international obligations to respect, protect and guarantee human rights in the context of the social protests that began on April 18,” the rights body said […]
