Assembly polls in JK: EC to hold key meeting today
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission is set to hold an important meeting today to discuss the modalities for holding the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir. The meeting comes a day after the Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora announced that the assembly elections would not be held simultaneously with the Lok Sabha election 2019. Jammu […]
No end to highway troubles
IT is mid march and Kashmir is all set to welcome the spring season. However, the Valley is yet to recover from the pain and sufferings that the Jammu-Srinagar highway has caused to them during this winter. This winter the highway has witnessed innumerable closures that too for longer periods of time. The situation turned […]
Retribution to Pulwama attack and the Kashmiri sentiment
Kanchan Basu The Pulwama ‘Militants Attack’ points to a dangerous new trend of militants jettisoning ambushes for tactics with an aim to wreak maximum destruction on ‘Security Forces’ while suffering minimum casualties themselves. The ‘Suicide Bomber’, Adil Ahmad Dar, a 20 years old school dropout from Pulwama, who joined Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) last year, was specifically […]
Obstacles in the Way of Progression
Peer Faizan Bashir I will narrate some factual incidents that will put a light into the obstacles that are in our path of progression. A few months ago, my father who loves and cherishes me, suddenly lay up with a cardiac disease! On that night, when we were all sleeping, and here was my father […]
Official Secrets Act or a Cage?
Nasir Ahmad Dar The sensational revelation by Attorney General of India K. K.Venugopal in the Supreme Court has stunned the entire nation. He has claimed that the documents related to the much hyped Rafale deal have been stolen from the Ministry of Defense. He was answering the Supreme Court during the hearing on the PIL […]
Qureshi briefs Bolton about steps taken by Pakistan to de-escalate recent tensions with India
Islamabad, Mar 11 (PTI) Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Monday briefed US National Security Advisor John Bolton about the measures taken by Islamabad to de-escalate tensions with India following the Pulwama terror attack. Tensions flared up between India and Pakistan after a suicide bomber of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Muhammed (JeM) killed 40 CRPF personnel in […]
Married woman abducted, raped for over 20 days in Rajsthan
Kota, Mar 11 (PTI) A 30-year-old married woman from Rajasthan’s Jhalawar district was abducted and raped for over 20 days by a family acquaintance from a neighbouring village, police said Monday. The accused, Shanti Lal Mehar from Bandi village, held the victim captive at different spots in Jhalawar as well as neighbouring Gujarat, police said. The […]
Terror funding: ED attaches J-K businessman Watali’s assets
New Delhi, Mar 11 (PTI) The ED has attached assets worth Rs 1.03 crore belonging to businessman Zahoor Ahmmad Watali in a money laundering case related to funding of terror organisations in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Monday. They said the agency has issued a provisional order for attachment of assets of Watali under […]
20-yr-old woman, cousin commit suicide in UP
Banda (UP), Mar 11 (PTI) A 20-year-old woman and her cousin, who were having an affair, allegedly committed suicide after their parents refused to accept their relationship, police said Monday. The incident took place in Jamuni Purva village of Uttar Pradesh’s Banda district. Madhuri hanged herself from the ceiling of her room on Sunday and later […]
Choose between Mahatma’s India and Godse’s India: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi, Mar 11 (PTI) The choice is between Mahatma Gandhi’s India or Godse’s India with love on one hand and hate on the other, Congress president Rahul Gandhi told his party’s booth workers here on Monday, a day after the Lok Sabha elections were announced. In an all out attack against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, […]