Mirwaiz Umar Farooq put under house arrest: Police

Srinagar(PTI): Moderate Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was put under house arrest on Saturday as a precautionary measure and his outfit’s one-day session was foiled, a police official said. In a tweet, Mirwaiz alleged that the separatists were not allowed any space for any kind of political activity and posted pictures of police personnel outside […]

Only one-way traffic on Kashmir, Leh highway and Mughal road

Srinagar: Authorities on Saturday allowed one way traffic on Srinagar-Jammu, Srinagar-Leh highways and Mughal road in south Kashmir. Ladakh-bound vehicles stranded at Sonamarg in the central Kashmir’s Ganderbal were allowed to leave to cross over to other side of the Zojila. Only one-way traffic was allowed on the historic 86-km-long Mughal road. Similarly only one-way traffic […]

Modi shaping 2016 surgical strike into ‘political asset’: Rahul Gandhi

Jaipur, Dec 1 (PTI) Congress president Rahul Gandhi Saturday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of shaping the Army’s 2016 surgical strike across the LoC into a “political asset” and being “unsuccessful” in creating job opportunities for the youth. Addressing a gathering at Udaipur in poll-bound Rajasthan, he also claimed that non-performing assets (NPA) of banks was […]

CBI files chargesheet against ex-Haryana CM Hooda, Cong leader Vora in AJL land allotment case

New Delhi (PTI) The CBI filed a chargesheet against former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Congress leader Motilal Vora Saturday in connection with the alleged irregularities in the re-allotment of an institutional plot in Panchkula, Haryana to the Associated Journals Limited (AJL), which is allegedly controlled by Congress leaders. The central agency, which filed […]

BJP condemns protests by political groups against decision to convert J&K Bank into PSU

Jammu (PTI): The BJP Friday condemned the propaganda launched by some Kashmir-based political and other socio-economic organisations against the State Administrative Council’s (SAC) decision to convert the J&K Bank into a PSU. It said there is an urgent need for transparency in the operation of the bank which has been under cloud for rising NPAs and […]

US proposes changes to H1B visas; to be given to most skilled, highest paid foreign workers

Washington, Dec 1 (PTI) The Trump Administration on Friday proposed major changes to the H-1B application process, including a new rule requiring companies to electronically register their petitions in advance, aimed at awarding this popular American work visa to the most skilled and highest paid foreign workers. The H1B visa, popular among Indian IT companies and […]

Buenos Aires, Dec 1 (PTI) Leaders of India, China and Russia have called for reforming multilateral institutions, including the UN and WTO, as they underscored the benefits of a multilateral trading system and an open world economy for global growth and prosperity during a trilateral meeting they held after a gap of 12 years. Prime Minister […]

GDP growth slows to 3-quarter low of 7.1 pc in Q2

New Delhi, Nov 30 (PTI) India’s economy grew at 7.1 per cent in July-September, lowest in three quarters, but still remained ahead of China to retain the tag of the world’s fastest growing major economy. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at constant prices (2011-12) had grown at 6.3 per cent in July-September quarter of the last […]

Former President George HW Bush dies at age 94

George HW Bush, a patrician New Englander whose presidency soared with the coalition victory over Iraq in Kuwait, but then plummeted in the throes of a weak economy that led voters to turn him out of office after a single term, has died. He was 94. He also presided during the collapse of the Soviet […]

Eight years of trial ends: Court convicts man in sodomy case, says offense was very painful to imagine

Srinagar: After eight years of trial, the court on Friday convicted a man for sodomising a minor in Awantipora area of South Kashmir. The court of additional special mobile magistrate Awantipora after hearing Khurshid Ahmad, senior prosecuting officer and the counsel for the accsued, convicted a person namely javaid Ahmad Dar son of Abdul Gani […]