Panun Kashmir bats for homeland with UT status within valley
Jammu, Dec 23 (PTI) Panun Kashmir, an organisation advocating the cause of displaced Kashmiri Pandits, Sunday reiterated its demand to carve out a separate homeland for the community in the valley with union territory status. The organisation’s chairman Ajay Chrungoo told reporters here that restructuring of Jammu and Kashmir was an “imperative necessity” to defeat Pakistan […]
Tral killings: JRL holds funeral prayers in absentia
Srinagar: On JRL call, funeral prayers in absentia were held at many places in which leaders and activists along with common people participated in large numbers. Notably, Joint Resistence Leadership (JRL) comprising Syed Ali Shah Geelani. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik had asked people to offer funeral prayers in absentia for the slain Tral […]
Pakistan Army chief backs Imran Khan’s peace initiatives
Karachi: Pakistan Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa has backed Prime Minister Imran Khan’s peace initiatives, saying the new government has extended a hand of peace and friendship towards India with utmost sincerity but it should not be taken as Islamabad’s weakness. Addressing the passing out parade of Midshipmen and Short Service Course at the […]
India most tolerant country in the world: Rajnath
Lucknow, Dec 23 (PTI) Rebuffing allegations that intolerance was rising in the country, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh Sunday said there was no nation in the world as tolerant as India. Singh, who was here to attend the 114th foundation day of King George’s Medical University, told reporters: “The tolerance that exists in India, I don’t […]
Missing specially abled girl reunited with family in UP
JAMMU: In an effort to reunite a missing child with her family, Children Welfare Committee (CWC) Jammu successfully sent a differently-abled girl to her parents in Uttar Pradesh after tracing their details. The differently-abled girl named Tulsi was found by ‘Childline’ in Jammu about four years back and was housed in Children Home Channi Rama. […]
Uttarakhand Tragedy: Pall of gloom descends on Uri village as it receives its dead
Srinagar: A pall of gloom descended on Uri township of Baramulla district in north Kashmir on Sunday when bodies of seven labourers out of the eight killed during a mishap reached their respective native villages from Uttrakhand state. On Friday, at least 15 labourers came under a portion of a mountain a poclain was working […]
Jamia Islamia student barred from exam for wearing hijab
NEW DELHI: A student of Jamia Islamia University, currently pursuing her Master of Business Administration (MBA), was allegedly barred from appearing in the exam for wearing hijab. According to news agency ANI, Umaiyah Khan, a student of Jamia Islamia University, alleged that she was not allowed to appear for University Grants Commission – National Eligibility […]
Pak witnesses Sharif’s fall, Imran’s rise in 2018; hopes to improve ties with India in 2019
By Sajjad Hussain Islamabad, Dec 23 (PTI) Pakistan witnessed a political coup in 2018 with cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan breaking the dominance of the PML-N and the PPP – the two main political parties that have been repeatedly in power – to become prime minister and initiate steps like opening the Kartarpur corridor to improve ties […]
India test fires nuclear-capable Agni-IV missile successfully
Balasore (Odisha), Dec 23 (PTI): India on Sunday successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable long-range ballistic missile Agni-IV, with a strike range of 4,000 km, as part of a user trial by the Army. The strategic surface-to-surface missile was flight tested from launch complex-4 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Dr Abdul Kalam Island, earlier known as […]
Death toll hits 168 after Indonesia tsunami: officials
Jakarta, Dec 23 (AFP) A tsunami following a volcanic eruption in Indonesia has killed at least 168 people, with hundreds more injured, officials said Sunday. “The total number of people who have died is 168 people, 745 were injured and 30 people are missing,” Indonesia’s national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said. (AFP)