Insensitive: JKBOSE agonizes students by delaying re-evaluation results
Srinagar: Despite the passage of around three months, the JK Board of School Education (BOSE) is yet to declare the re-evaluation result of the class 11th and 12th students. A group of students, who were accompanied by their parents, said most of them have obtained more than 90 percent marks in other subjects except the […]
Tirade against slain cop: BJP leader Pragya says he died for treating me badly
Bhopal: Malegaon blast accused and BJP’s Bhopal Lok Sabha seat candidate Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur has said former Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare died during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks as she “cursed” him for torturing her. Addressing BJP workers here Thursday night, Pragya also claimed Karkare had made up his mind not to release […]
Taliban-Afghan talks derailed as peace takes a back seat
DOHA: Hopes for a breakthrough in a push to end Afghanistan’s gruelling conflict suffered a major setback Friday after a key summit between the Taliban and Afghan officials was indefinitely postponed The so-called intra-Afghan dialogue, due to take place in Doha this weekend, fell apart at the last minute in a row over the large […]
Rahul gives a war cry, says Cong will form next government
Raichur (Karna): Attacking the Prime Minister, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi Friday alleged people of the country “have decided” to remove Narendra Modi and asserted his party would form the government after the Lok Sabha polls. Addressing a rally here in north Karnataka, Gandhi said Modi talks about security of the nation “but making crores of […]
Congress promoted casteism, dynasty politics: BJP
Jaipur: The BJP on Friday said the Congress gave casteism and dynasty politics to the country and it has become a cause of embarrassment to the party. “The Congress gave ‘Jatiwad aur Parivarwad’ (casteism and dynasty politics) to the county and today it is the cause of embarrassment and dishonour to the party itself,” BJP […]
Who needs CBM’s
Another low in the Indo-Pak relations was witnessed on Thursday when Srinagar and Udhampur Lok Sabha seats were going to polls. The Union government announced the suspension of cross LoC trade with Pakistan from both the routes Salamabad and Chakkan-da-Bagh in Jammu and Kashmir. India claimed that the route was being misused by elements from […]
Custodial deaths can prove catastrophic for democracy
Authorities consider torture to be an interrogational tool for investigation and perceive that there is nothing wrong in punishing a victim in custody
Dr. Jehangeer Ahmad Bhat The incidence of custodial deaths in the world’s largest democracy has outstretched eyebrows of every single citizen and shaken the very faith in democracy. The basic fundamental of a state is rule of law. This is a fact that custodial violence and death is a dark reality in India, where the […]
People must wake up to the danger of smoke
In fact, statistics tell us that approximately 70 out of 100 people who smoke want to stop but go on puffing, day in and day out
Vinod Chandrashekhar Dixit Everyone is aware that ‘smoking’ has been criticized as the most lethal weapon of self destruction. According to the Tobacco Products Act, 2004, direct and indirect advertising of all tobacco products and its sale to minors is banned. Addiction to nicotine makes it hard to quit. The increasing incidence of heart attack […]
