AFSPA’s ‘disturbed area’ tag extended for 3 Arunachal districts, withdrawn from 3 others
New Delhi, April 2 (PTI) The Centre on Monday extended the “disturbed area” tag under AFSPA for three districts of Arunachal Pradesh for six months more while withdrawing it partly from the state’s three other districts bordering Assam. According to a Union Home Ministry notification, the decision was taken after considering the present law and order […]
Article 370 pleas listed before Supreme Court today
SRINAGAR: Various pleas challenging the constitutional validity of Article 370 which grants special status to the state of Jammu and Kashmir are listed before the Supreme Court today. It has been learnt that the case “figures at item number 5 in the miscellaneous list of April 2” before a bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, […]
Reversing the clock: NC to seek restoration of Prez, PM’s posts in JK: Omar
Says his party will revoke PSA, SRO 202 if elected to power
Says his party will revoke PSA, SRO 202 if elected to power
Modi hits out at Omar
Hyderabad: Prime Minister NarendraModi on Monday hit out at National Conference leader Omar Abdullah over his reported statement seeking a separate Prime Minister for Kashmir and asked the Congress and Mahagatbandhan leaders to make clear their stand. Addressing an election rally here, Modi said there were media reports that Abdullah has stated there should be […]
Pulwama encounter leaves four militants dead
Three army men, cop injured
Srinagar: Four militants belonging to a combined group of Lashkar-e-Taiba and HizbulMujahideen outfits, were killed, while three army jawans and a policeman were injured in an encounter in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Monday morning, police said. Acting on a credible input about the presence of militants in Lassipora area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, […]
Mason turned militant was forced to join militancy, alleges family
Pulwama: Top LeT commander Tawseef Ahmad Yatoo son of Abdul Aziz Yatoo resident of Gadbug in Lassipora area of Pulwalma was one among the four slain militants killed in a pre-dawn encounter at LassiporaPulwama. Tawseef according to his family was arrested more than 20 times for having links with militants before he finally joined militant […]
Geelani’s loses his Delhi house on ‘willful’ tax evasion charges
New Delhi: The Income Tax department has attached a house of hardline Kashmiri separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani located in Delhi in connection with an over Rs 3.62 crore tax evasion case against him. The flat is located in south Delhi’s Khirki Extension locality in Malviya Nagar. A Tax Recovery Officer (TRO) of the department […]
LoC hots up: BSF officer, girl killed during cross border shelling
Jammu: A BSF officer and a five-year-old girl were killed Monday as Pakistani troops resorted to heavy shelling on forward areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district, officials said. Eleven persons, including six soldiers, were injured in the incident, they said. A BSF officer was killed in ceasefire violation by Pakistani army […]
