Srinagar records season’s coldest night, shivers at -4
Srinagar,: Srinagar witnessed the season’s coldest night at minus 4 degrees Celsius, while the minimum temperatures across Jammu and Kashmir continued to drop on Friday, the weather office said. “The temperatures dropped due to clear night sky. During the next 48 hours, the state’s higher reaches are likely to receive light snow as a […]
Rajasthan polls: 259 will be all-women polling booths, 3 differently abled
Jaipur,(PTI) Over 250 polling booths are fully operated by women while three by differently abled persons in Rajasthan where polling commenced today. Votes will be cast at 51,687 polling booths, 259 of them managed exclusively by women officials and security personnel, Chief electoral officer Anand Kumar said. He said that differently abled had requested for engaging […]
IndiGo becomes first domestic airline to have 200 aircraft in its fleet: Airline
Mumbai (PTI) Budget carrier IndiGo on Thursday said it has become the first domestic airline to have 200 aircraft in its fleet. Four new aircraft have joined the fleet, including town Airbus A320 ceo (VT-IKA and VT-IKB) and two A320 neo (VT IZK AND VT-IZI) taking the fleet count to 200 and number of deliveries to […]
Bollywood singer Mika Singh arrested in Dubai for alleged sexual harassment
Dubai: Bollywood singer Mika Singh has been arrested in Dubai on alleged sexual harassment charge. A foreign national allegedly accused the singer of sexual harassment after which Dubai authorities arrested Singh. The model lodged a complaint that Mika Singh sent her inappropriate pictures, Gulf News reported quoting sources.
NC bats for early polls in J-K
Jammu (PTI) National Conference president Farooq Abdullah Thursday sought early conduct of elections in Jammu and Kashmir, apprehending that the BJP may attempt to get these delayed for the “fear of imminent defeat” due to its “misgovernance and failure” in keeping up the promises. “Hold elections and the people of Jammu and Kashmir, not New Delhi, […]
Haseeb Drabu quits PDP
Srinagar: Former Finance Minister and a close aide of Late Mufti Mohammad Sayed, Haseeb Drabu on Thursday resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Drabu announced his resignation in a letter addressed to PDP president Mehbooba Mufti which he also shared on Twitter and FB adding, “Bidding Adieu to PDP. Another phase of life over.” […]
Army made way, but politics failed to resolve Kashmir: Former GoC
Srinagar: The current situation in Jammu and Kashmir, particularly in the Valley, is a classic example of our dithering political strategy, former GoC Northern and Central command Lt Gen HS Panag said. Gen Panag in a column for ‘The Print’ wrote that the Indian Army had created an enabling environment for politics to take centre […]
India tried to politicize the issue: Imran Khan
Islamabad: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said that India gave a “political colour” to his gesture of opening the Kartarpur border and called it “unfortunate”. Pakistan opened the Kartarpur border in November to facilitate visa-free pilgrimage by Indian Sikhs to Kartarpur Sahib gurdwara, where Sikhism’s founder Guru Nanak Dev spent the last 18 […]
People who kill cops in Kashmir are terrorists, in UP they are heroes: Omar
Srinagar: National Conference Vice President, Omar Abdullah on Wednesday, reacting to the Bulandshahr incident where a mob attacked and killed policemen over allegations of cow slaughter, stated that the killers would be eulogized by the ruling party as ‘heroes’, while in Kashmir, such people are called ‘terrorists’. In a tweet, he said, while sharing a […]
Suicide bomber kills two in southeast Iran: Revised toll
Tehran, Dec 6 (AFP) A suicide bomber killed at least two people and wounded many more outside police headquarters in the port city of Chabahar in restive southeastern Iran on Thursday, according to a revised official toll. Chabahar lies in Sistan-Baluchistan province which has long been a flashpoint, with Pakistan-based Baluchi separatists and Sunni […]
