SSDF holds protest against PDP president
Jammu: Dozens of Shiv Sena Dogra Front (SSDF) activists on Saturday staged a protest here against PDP president Mehbooba Mufti for her remarks that she would only hold the tricolour when the flag of the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir is restored. Led by SSDF’s president Ashok Gupta, the protesters holding tricolour in their hands assembled […]
No ‘provocative’, ‘irresponsible’ remarks on national flag: Cong to PDP
Jammu: Asking former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti to desist from making highly provocative and irresponsible remarks on the national flag, the Congress unit in the Union Territory on Saturday strongly condemned the PDP chief’s statement on the tricolour. Reacting to Mufti’s statement on the national flag, Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee […]
Battleground Bihar: Modi, Rahul ‘clash’ over Art 370, Chinese intrusion
Sasasam/Bhagalpur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi kicked off their campaign in battleground Bihar on Friday and went for each other’s jugular over the Chinese intrusion in Ladakh, both crying “insult” to soldiers and their families. The abrogation of Article 370 and farm sector reform laws figured prominently in the bitter electoral […]
More trouble for Nawaz Sharif: Pak’s anti-corruption body approves fresh case
Islamabad: Pakistan’s anti-corruption body has approved a new case against deposed premier Nawaz Sharif, days after Prime Minister Imran Khan urged the authorities to dispose of major graft cases quickly. Sharif, the 70-year-old supremo of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) who was ousted from power in 2017 by the Supreme Court on corruption charges, is […]
Trump announces ‘arrival’ of Covid-19 vaccine
Washington: US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that a COVID-19 vaccine is “ready” and going to be announced “within weeks” to combat the deadly disease that has killed over 223,000 Americans, as he debated with his Democratic challenger Joe Biden for the final time before the presidential election. The debate, just less than two […]
Young generation needs to be educated about proxy wars: Lt Guv
Srinagar: The present generation needs to be educated about proxy wars and Pakistan’s ulterior motives, Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha said on Thursday, citing former chief minister Sheikh Abdullah’s remarks on the loot and massacre done by Pakistani Army and its raiders on this day in 1947. Addressing a symposium, organised for the […]
Twitter shows Leh in China, govt disapproves
New Delhi: India has warned Twitter over its location setting that showed Leh in China, saying any disrespect of the country’s sovereignty and integrity is totally unacceptable. In a strongly-worded letter, Ajay Sawhney, Secretary in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), asked Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to respect the country’s sensitivities, sources in […]