TeH Chairman Ashraf Sehrai dies in Jammu hospital
Tests positive for covid-19, body handed to family members
Jammu: Prominent separatist leader Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai, who was arrested under the Public Safety Act in July last year, died at a hospital here on Wednesday, officials said. Sehrai, 77, a close confidant of Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, was incarcerated at the district jail in Udhampur. He was shifted to Jammu’s Government […]
WTO mulling intellectual property waivers for vaccines
Geneva: Ambassadors from World Trade Organisation countries on Wednesday resumed discussions on trade rules protecting the technological know-how behind COVID-19 vaccines amid growing pressure on rich nations to relax them as a way to help poorer countries fight the pandemic. The WTO’s General Council was taking up a temporary waiver for intellectual property protections that […]
Daughters of detained separatist write to HM
Another separatist Shabir Shah moves court seeking bail
New Delhi: The daughters of detained moderate Hurriyat leader Aftab Hilali, popularly known as Shahid-ul-Islam, on Wednesday wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, seeking his intervention for the release of their “ailing father” from Tihar jail. Hilali was arrested in connection with a terror funding case by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in 2017 […]
Land encroachment: CBI likely to name ex-BJP leader’s wife, revenue officials in charge sheet
Jammu: The CBI is likely to name the wife of a former BJP leader and revenue officers in a charge sheet to be filed in a case related to encroachment of a huge tract of government land for running an educational trust, officials said here on Wednesday. The agency has already sent a letter to […]
Post Poll Bengal Violence: BJP workers stage protests against TMC, Mamata in Jammu
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir BJP Wednesday held protests against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her TMC over post-poll violence allegedly against saffron party workers in the state. J&K BJP president Ravinder Raina and General Secretary (Organisation) Ashok Kaul joined other senior leaders in the protests, a party spokesman said, adding demonstrations were […]
