Loss of interest: Overbearing presence of security forces failed to get voters to polling booths
Shopian/Pulwama: Deserted roads leading to polling stations with no or a few voters and overbearing presence of security forces were dominant scenes on Monday in militancy-infested Pulwama and Shopian districts of Jammu and Kashmir where polling is underway for the Anantnag parliamentary constituency. Officials at several polling stations were idling around, while security forces maintained […]
Highway blockade: SC dismisses plea challenging order
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea challenging the Jammu and Kashmir government’s order restricting civilian traffic for a day in a week on a stretch of the national highway from Udhampur to Baramulla for the movement of security forces. Counsel for the state government told the bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan […]
Amid logjam US-Taliban peace talks paused on Ramadan eve
DOHA: Peace talks between the US and the Taliban were suspended for the beginning of Ramadan on Monday, with the two sides at apparent loggerheads over the key issue of when foreign forces might leave Afghanistan. The foes have spent much of the past week in a sixth round of talks in Doha aimed at […]
Sexual harassment allegations: CJI gets clean chit as in-House panel finds ‘no substance’ in complaint
New Delhi: Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi Monday got a clean chit from the Supreme Court’s In-House Inquiry Committee which “has found no substance” in the allegations of sexual harassment levelled against him by a former woman employee of the apex court. A notice by the office of Supreme Court Secretary General said the […]
Highly disappointed with report: Ex SC woman employee
New Delhi: “Highly disappointed and dejected,” said the former Supreme Court employee who levelled sexual harassment allegations against Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, after the In-House Inquiry Committee gave him a clean chit on Monday. She said “gross injustice” has been done to her as a woman citizen of India and her “worst fears” […]
Pak army shells forward posts, hamlets along LoC
Jammu: Pakistan army resorted to heavy mortar shelling and small arms firing targeting forward posts and villages along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Monday, resulting in injuries to two civilians, officials said. Pakistan violated ceasefire by resorting to heavy mortar shelling and firing along the LoC in Mankote and […]
BJP stages protest against killing of its party leader, seeks security for political workers
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir unit of the BJP Monday staged a protest here against the recent killing of its senior leader Gul Mohammad Mir by militants and sought adequate security to political workers facing threat. Led by state party president Ravinder Raina, scores of BJP leaders and workers assembled outside the Press Club here […]
Man arrested for manufacturing illicit liquor in Rajouri
JAMMU: A man was arrested Monday for manufacturing illicit liquor in Rajouri district, police said. Acting on a tip off, a team of police officials raided a house in Palwal village of Sunderbani belt and seized 915 litres of liquor and 50 kgs of Lahaan, which was destroyed on the spot. Another accused, a local […]
Colombo bombing has a Kashmir connection, says Lankan Army chief
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka Army’s chief has said that some of the suicide bombers who carried out the country’s worst terror attack on Easter Sunday visited Kashmir and Kerala for “some sorts of training” or to “make some more links” with other foreign outfits. It is the first time that a top Sri Lankan security official […]
