Robbers loot cash at gunpoint in Samba
Jammu: Unidentified men allegedly robbed employees of a filling station at gunpoint and decamped with Rs two lakh along the Jammu-Pathankot highway in Samba district, police said Tuesday. The incident took place near Dayani Monday night when some masked robbers took away cash from the employees, a police official said. A case has been registered […]
Police rescue kidnapped girl within 24 hours
Jammu: A 15-year-old girl was rescued within 24 hours of her kidnapping in Reasi district, police said Tuesday. The girl’s father filed a complaint on Monday, alleging that his daughter was kidnapped by GhulamQadir of BherhKunderdhan village from a wedding in district’s Chassana area, a police spokesman said. Police soon launched an operation to nab […]
Amid freeze in relations, Indo-Pak ‘peace calendar’ released
New Delhi: A ‘peace calender’ was released here on Sunday to send out a message of peace amid strain in bilateral ties between India and Pakistan. Many people, including Army veterans, youths and school students, gathered here to release the ‘peace calendar’, an initiative of the ‘Aaghaz-e-Dosti’ organisation that works to foster people-to-people relations between […]
Cyber expert claims India’s 2014 general election was ‘rigged’
London: An Indian cyber expert, seeking political asylum in the US, Monday claimed that the 2014 general election was “rigged” through the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), which, he says, can be hacked. Addressing a press conference in London via Skype, the man, identified as Syed Suja, said he fled India in 2014 because he felt […]
ECI terms ‘EVM tampering event as motivated slugfest’
New Delhi: The Election Commission of India on Monday took a strong note of an event organised in London, claiming to demonstrate that the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) used in India could be tampered with. The ECI termed the event as a “motivated slugfest”. “It has come to our notice that an event, claiming to […]
PTI seeks disqualification of ex-president Zardari
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party on Monday filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking the disqualification of former president and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chief Asif Ali Zardari. Khurram Sher Zaman, a Member of Sindh Assembly from the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, filed the disqualification petition against 63-year-old Zardari in the apex court, […]
Taliban attack kills at least 12 in central Afghanistan
Ghazni: At least 12 people were killed Monday in a Taliban-claimed attack on a military compound in central Afghanistan, officials said, as the insurgents continue to batter the war-torn country’s beleaguered security forces. The attack began after a vehicle loaded with explosives rammed into the entrance of a compound in Maidan Shahr — the capital […]
‘Game changer’ Dry Ports a non-starter in JK: JCCI
Jammu: An industry body Monday said a project to set up dry ports, initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is a non-starter in Jammu and Kashmir. “It was last year in the month of February that the J&K government and Dubai Ports World in presence of our Prime Minister NarinderModi and Crown Prince of Abu […]
