Dozen killed, including six hostages, in foiled Brazil bank assaults
Rio De Janeiro, (AFP) Twelve people — including six hostages — were killed in northeast Brazil on Friday after police foiled a gang of armed robbers staging simultaneous predawn assaults on two banks in the town of Milagres, officials said. Five of the dead hostages were members of the same family and included two children, […]
UP: Dalits should take over all Hanuman temples in India, security upped as government anticipate Bhim Army may take over Hanuman Dham
Muzaffarnagar, Dec 8 (PTI) Security has been reinforced at the ‘Hanuman dham’ in Shukratal here as Bhim Army activists may attempt to take it over, police said on Saturday. The move comes days after Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar said on Sunday that members of the Dalit community should take over all Hanuman temples in the country […]
Poonch: 20 feared dead as bus falls in gorge
Poonch: Over 20 people are feared dead and many other were injured after a bus fell in a gorge in mountainous Poonch district on Saturday. Official sources said that the bus bearing registration number JK02W-0445 was on its way to Poonch from Loran when it met with the accident near a shrine at Kalarpella area […]
Weatherman predicts rain, snowfall on Monday
Srinagar: Amid possibility of light to moderate rain or snowfall in next few days especially on Monday and Tuesday, the night temperature increased slightly even as they hovered below sub-zero level across the Kashmir Valley. “There is possibility of light rain at isolated places in next 24 hours as the present (weather) system is not […]
Voting for panchayat polls underway
Srinagar, Dec 8 (PTI) Voting for the penultimate phase of the nine-phased Panchayat polls is underway Saturday at over 2,600 polling stations in Jammu and Kashmir. Polling began at 8 am at 2,633 polling stations – 550 in Kashmir division and 2083 in Jammu division, officials said. They said 361 polling stations have been categorized […]
Exit polls predict neck to neck fight between BJP-Congress
New Delhi: The results of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram Assembly elections 2018 is set to be declared on December 11. But ahead of the counting of votes, the exit polls by different agencies were released on Friday evening, after polling concluded in Telangana and Rajasthan. The exit polls suggest a neck-and-neck battle […]
BJP has’anti-Muslim’, ‘anti-Pak’ approach: Imran Khan
Says all his peace overtures were rebuffed by India
Says all his peace overtures were rebuffed by India
Guv encroaching on democratic space, says Mehbooba
Srinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Friday said there should be no meddling with the constitutional status of Jammu and Kashmir till a popular government takes power. Mehbooba said there seemed to a “hidden agenda” behind the decisions to treat Jammu and Kashmir Bank as a PSU, changing procedures of state subject rules, revoking Roshni […]
JK Resettlement Act 1982: Govt seeks adjournment of ‘sensitive’ 1982 case in SC
NEW DELHI: The J&K government Friday sought adjournment of the case in Supreme Court challenging the validity of the sensitive Jammu and Kashmir Resettlement Act of 1982. The Act envisages grant of permit for resettlement of Pakistani nationals who had migrated to Pakistan from Jammu and Kashmir between 1947 and 1954 after India’s partition. A […]
NC is harbinger of communal politics in JK, says BJP
Jammu: The BJP hit out at National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah, claiming he had no moral authority to accuse it of “divisive politics” as his party was the harbinger of communal and divisive politics in Jammu and Kashmir. State BJP spokesperson Anil Gupta told reporters that people did not take Abdullah seriously anymore, but he […]
