School headmaster booked under POCSO Act, jailed
Coimbatore: The headmaster of a government elementary school at Kattampatty in Coimbatore district, was on Thursday arrested after being booked under the POCSO Act for allegedly misbehaving with girl students, police said. The parents of 11 students, studying in fourth and fifth standards, had complained about the 52-year-old headmaster for sexually harassing the girl students, […]
Kim Jong Un would be proud of such orchestrated diplomacy: Iltija Mufti on envoys’ visit to JK
Srinagar: Iltija Mufti, daughter of PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, on Wednesday termed the visit of foreign envoys to Kashmir as “orchestrated diplomacy” that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “would be proud of”. “How lovely! Kim Jong Un would be proud of such orchestrated diplomacy. The only thing missing is presence of 3 former J&K […]
Fresh batch of 25 envoys in JK on 2-day govt-facilitated trip
Srinagar/New Delhi: A second batch of 25 foreign envoys arrived here on Wednesday as part of a union government-facilitated trip to help them have a first-hand assessment of the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, a region which faced months of harsh restrictions after its special status was stripped of in August. The envoys arrived at […]
Five of family killed as vehicle falls into gorge in Kishtwar
Jammu: Five members of a family, including two women, were killed on Wednesday when their vehicle skidded off the road and fell into a deep gorge in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir, a police official said. The accident happened when the family was carrying the body of a baby from Jammu to their Bahadat […]
Debt-ridden roadside vendor commits suicide in Doda
Bhadarwah/Jammu: A debt-ridden 36-year-old man allegedly committed suicide by hanging inside his house in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, police said. Tilak Raj earned his living as a roadside vendor and was found hanging from the ceiling at his house in Bheja village, they said. He is survived by his grandmother, wife […]
SC judge recuses himself from hearing plea challenging Omar Abdullah’s detention
New Delhi: Supreme Court judge Justice M M Shantanagoudar recused himself on Wednesday from hearing the plea filed by Sara Abdullah Pilot challenging the detention of her brother and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah under the JK Public Safety Act. Pilot’s plea came up for hearing before a three-judge bench comprising justices N V Ramana, […]
Notify JK as central jail; AAP win ‘light’ in ‘regime of darkness’: Tarigami
New Delhi: CPI(M) senior leader from Kashmir Yousuf Tarigami on Wednesday took a dig at the Centre, asking it to notify Jammu and Kashmir as a “central jail” so that it no longer has to enforce draconian laws like the Public Safety Act on its citizens. Welcoming the AAP’s victory in the Delhi Assembly elections, […]
Pak anti-terrorism court sentences Hafiz Saeed to 11 years in jail
Lahore: Mumbai attack mastermind and Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed was on Wednesday sentenced to 11 years in jail by an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan in two terror financing cases. Saeed, a UN designated ‘terrorist’ whom the US has placed a USD 10 million bounty on, was arrested on July 17 in the terror financing […]
Indian armed forces are at cusp of transformation: Gen Rawat
Rejects criticism that the armed forces are suppressing the rights of the people in Jammu and Kashmir
New Delhi: India’s armed forces are at the cusp of transformation, Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat said on Wednesday, noting that proxy war and cross border terrorism remained the key security challenges facing India. Gen Rawat also rejected criticism that the armed forces are suppressing the rights of the people in Jammu and […]
