Saudi crown prince meets Chinese president, bags oil deal
Beijing: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met China’s President Xi Jinping on Friday and bagged a USD 10-billion oil deal, pressing on with his diplomatic charm offensive in Asia following a global outcry over the Khashoggi killing. Mohammed arrived in Beijing on Thursday following visits to Pakistan and India, showing the world that his […]
Vatican summit on sex abuse focuses calls for accountability
Vatican City: Cardinals attending Pope Francis’ summit on preventing clergy sex abuse called Friday for a new culture of accountability in the Catholic Church to punish bishops and religious superiors when they fail to protect their flocks from predator priests. On the second day of Francis’ extraordinary gathering of Catholic leaders, the focus of debate […]
Trump and Kim to have one-on-one meet in Hanoi
Washington: US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will meet one-on-one and spend substantial amount of time together next week when the two leaders meet in Hanoi, Vietnam, the White House said Thursday. Trump and Kim are meeting for their second summit on February 27 and 28. The first one was on […]
Congress attacks PM over India-Saudi statement
New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday hit out at Prime Minister NarendraModi over the joint statement issued after his talks with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, saying the PM “forgot” to write the name of Pakistan in the document. The statement, issued hours after the Modi-Crown Prince talks, said the two leaders condemned the […]
‘Respond decisively’ to any Indian aggression, Imran tells Pak army
Islamabad: Pakistan’s top security body Thursday said the country was “not involved in any way” in the Pulwama “incident”, which was “conceived, planned and executed indigenously” as Prime Minister Imran Khan authorised the military to respond “decisively” to any Indian misadventure. In a statement issued after a key meeting of the National Security Council chaired […]
No statesman exists in India, only politicians do: Omar
Hits out at PM, Cong for silence on 'systematic targeting of Kashmiris'
Srinagar: National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Thursday hit out at both Prime Minister NarendraModi and the opposition Congress for not speaking out against the “systematic targeting of Kashmiris” in various parts of the country following the Pulwama attack last week. Addressing a press conference here, the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said he […]
People don’t want Kashmiris to be part of Indians: Chidambaram
New Delhi: Some people want Kashmir to be part of India but don’t want Kashmiris to be part of Indians, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram said on Thursday and asserted that the “irony of the situation is depressing”. In a series of tweets, the former home and finance minister also took a dig at Meghalaya […]
SC to hear PIL seeking protection of Kashmiri students
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has agreed to hear on Friday a PIL seeking a direction to authorities to protect Kashmiri students who are allegedly being attacked across the country in the aftermath of the Pulwama terror strike. A bench, comprising Chief Justice RanjanGogoi and Justices L N Rao and SanjivKhanna, on Thursday took note […]
Rains lead to fresh landslides on JK highway, road closed
Higher reaches of Kashmir receive fresh snowfall
Jammu: The Jammu-Srinagar Highway was closed for the second consecutive day Thursday amid five fresh landslides triggered by heavy rains and snowfall in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir. Over 600 vehicles are stranded at several places on the highway in Ramban, Udhampur and Jammu districts. There were fresh landslides triggered by rains, which struck […]
Police registers FIR in ‘anti-national’ sloganeering case
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Police has registered a case in connection with allegedly raising of anti-national slogans by some stranded Kashmiri Muslims passengers here and issued a ‘hue and cry notice’ to trace three unidentified persons, officials said. Police issued pictures of the three accused persons involved in raising anti-national slogans. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims […]