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Highway: Priority to decongest the highway, stranded vehicles moving towards Srinagar

Highway: Priority to decongest the highway, stranded vehicles moving towards Srinagar

Srinagar: Traffic authorities on Wednesday said that they will be allowing only stranded vehicles to move towards Srinagar to decongest the strategic highway. The officials said that the vehicles heading towards Srinagar are being allowed. “Our main aim right now is to completely decongest the highway,” the official said. The highway is the only road connectivity […]

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Talks with Taliban focus on four key issues to end the Afghan war: US

Talks with Taliban focus on four key issues to end the Afghan war: US

Washington, Mar 6 (PTI) The US has said the ongoing negotiations with the Taliban are focused on four interconnected issues, including counterterrorism and troop withdrawal, that will be key for any future agreement to end the 17-year war in Afghanistan. A high-powered American delegation led by Special US Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad has been […]

 KV Network

Pompeo played ‘essential role’ in de-escalating Indo-Pak tensions: State Dept

Pompeo played ‘essential role’ in de-escalating Indo-Pak tensions: State Dept

Washington, Mar 6 (PTI) US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo played an “essential role” in de-escalating tensions between India and Pakistan last week, according to a top State Department official. Tensions between India and Pakistan flared up after a suicide bomber of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terror group killed 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel in Kashmir’s […]

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Pak places Hafiz Saeed-led JuD, FIF in list of banned organisations

Pak places Hafiz Saeed-led JuD, FIF in list of banned organisations

Islamabad: Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed-led Jamaat-ud-Dawa and its wing Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation were formally placed in the list of banned organisations on Tuesday, a day after Indian media reported that the two outfits continue to be only on the watchlist. According to Pakistan’s National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA) list, which was updated on Tuesday, […]

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Pakistan SC bars private channels from airing Indian films, TV shows

Pakistan SC bars private channels from airing Indian films, TV shows

Islamabad: Pakistan’s Supreme Court has barred private channels from airing Indian films and television shows, amid escalating tensions between the two countries following the Pulwama terror attack. A three-member bench headed by Justice Gulzar Ahmad took up the case in which an order of the Lahore High Court (LHC) allowing Indian channels in Pakistan was […]

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Woman raped by occultist: Police

Woman raped by occultist: Police

Gurgaon, March 6 ( PTI) A 27-year-old woman was raped by an occultist whom the victim and her husband had invited to perform a religious ritual in their home to drive away their poverty, police said Tuesday. Guragon ACP (Crime) Shamsher Singh said the victim and her husband had come in the contact of one […]

 Press Trust of India

US, UK try to act peaceniks

US, UK try to act peaceniks

US says it is trying to find common ground between India and Pakistan

Washington/London: The United States is trying to find a common ground between India and Pakistan, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said, describing Kashmir as a long-standing battle between the two South Asian neighbours. Pompeo cited the India-Pak dispute and the Israeli conflict as recent examples of America’s negotiating diplomatic skills, about which he […]

 Press Trust of India

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar objects to abrogate article 35A, 370

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar objects to abrogate article 35A, 370

Patna: The JD(U) has strongly objected to fresh hankering in some quarters to abrogate Articles 35A and 370 of the Constitution, warning that any “tinkering” with these provisions for Jammu and Kashmir would be “detrimental to the national unity and integrity.” The Janata Dal (United), which is headed by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and […]

 Press Trust of India

Kartarpur draft agreement: Pak team to visit India on March 14

Kartarpur draft agreement: Pak team to visit India on March 14

Islamabad: Pakistan on Tuesday informed India that its delegation will visit New Delhi on March 14 to discuss a draft agreement on the Kartarpur corridor, a positive development that could help ease tensions between the two neighbours. Foreign Office spokesman Mohammad Faisal, who is also the Director General South Asia & SAARC, invited India’s acting […]

 Jahangeer Ganaie

Two local affiliates of Hizb killed in Tral encounter

Two local affiliates of Hizb killed in Tral encounter

Pulwama: Two Hizbul-ul-Mujahideen militants were killed in an encounter with government forces in Tral area of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Tuesday. “Police, Army and CRPF launched Cordon and Search Operation in Reshie Mohalla of Tral area following credible inputs about the presence of militants on Monday evening,” a police official said. “After conducting searches […]