For violation of norms, LMD books gas distributor
Srinagar: Legal Metrology Department (LMD) Srinagar Wednesday booked and penalized a gas distributor for Rs 5000 as his home delivery service failed to produce weighing scale and leak detector. The LMD officer said that during a surprise inspection in the outskirts of city Srinagar, the inspection team intercepted a delivery van carrying cooking gas for […]
Editorial: Blaming social media
Srinagar: The developing world including country like India needs a massive support through various communication channels to overcome the development deficit. For this the emerging and vibrant social media can prove to be a powerful tool altogether. But given the present circumstances where social media platforms have emerged as a dynamic tool for initiating and […]
‘Bombardment kills 25 civilians in Syria’s Ghouta’
Beirut: Bombardment by the Syrian regime and its ally Russia killed 25 civilians, among them three children, in the embattled rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta today, a monitor said. “At least 25 civilians including three children were killed on Wednesday, most of them in regime air strikes and others in Russian raids on an area […]
BJP blighted in bypolls, loses all 3 LS seats in UP, Bihar
Lucknow: In a stunning blow to the BJP ahead of the 2019 general elections, the party today lost bypolls to all three Lok Sabha seats it contested, including its bastion Gorakhpur, and Phulpur in Uttar Pradesh, besides Araria in Bihar. The shocker for the BJP came as an anticlimax after its surprise win in three […]
Two killed in Pattan road accident
Sopore: Two persons were killed in a road accident at Hamray Pattan area in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Wednesday evening. According to reports the accident took place on Srinagar-Muzaffarabad National Highway at Hamray Pattan area when a speedy truck bearing registered number JK05C- 6168 had a collision with a private four wheeler Santo car […]
Pak’s Punjab Assembly passes historic bill to regulate Sikh marriages
Lahore: A provincial assembly in Pakistan today created history by unanimously passing a bill that will provide legal status to Sikh marriages in the Muslim-majority country. The Punjab Assembly unanimously passed the Punjab Sikhs Anand Karaj Marriages Act 2017. This is the first time that family matters of the community, such as marriage, will be […]
Activists out of Ayodhya land dispute, SC to hear original litigants
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today dashed the hopes of activists like Shyam Benegal and Teesta Setalvad to intervene in the sensitive Babri Masjid-Ram Temple land dispute case, making it clear that only the parties to the original lawsuits would be allowed to put forth their arguments. A special bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak […]
Hizb chief’s eldest son quizzed by NIA in ‘terror-funding’ case
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency today questioned six people, including the eldest son of Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin, in connection with a 2011 ‘terror funding’ case, officials said here. Shakeel Yusuf, who works as a medical assistant at Srinagar’s Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, appeared before the agency along with five others suspected […]
Dalai Lama to address first convocation of Central University of Jammu
Jammu: Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama will address the first convocation of the Central University of Jammu (CUJ) on Sunday, a university official said today. Union minister Jitendra Singh and former chief of Army staff N C Vij will also attend the ceremony on March 18. They would receive degrees of doctor of philosophy, honoris […]
Centre should take hard look at JK govt’s PAO reversal order: Omar
Jammu: The main opposition party in Jammu and Kashmir, National Conference (NC), today urged the Centre to take a “hard look” at the reason behind the Mehbooba Mufti-led state government’s decision to put the Pay and Accounts Office (PAO) system in abeyance till March 31. In a tweet, NC working president Omar Abdullah asked the […]
