JNU case: Court lashes out at Delhi govt for delaying sanctions to prosecute student leaders
New Delhi: A city court on Wednesday lashed out at the Delhi government over delay in granting requisite sanctions to prosecute former JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar and others in a 2016 sedition case, saying they can’t sit on file indefinitely. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Deepak Sherawat directed Delhi Police to ask the authorities concerned […]
JK witnessed increased militant violence in 2018: Govt
New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir witnessed the maximum number of violent incidents in 2018 as compared to the four years before that, whereas such incidents in the country’s north east and Naxal-hit areas saw a marginal drop in the same comparative period, the government told the Parliament Tuesday. Minister of State for Home Hansraj G […]
Kashmir solidarity day: Uphold the rights of the Kashmiri people, says Pak President Alvi
Islamabad: President Arif Alvi on the occasion of Kashmir Solidarity Day demanded the Indian government uphold the rights of the Kashmiri people instead of trying – and failing – to “justify its terrorism” against innocent citizens by pushing a “false narrative of ‘killing militants’.” President Alvi in an address to the Azad Jammu and Kashmir […]
After 5 days of closure highway opens
Traffic to ply from Srinagar to Jammu on Wednesday
Jammu: The one-way traffic resumed on Jammu-Srinagar national highway Tuesday as authorities allowed traffic from summer capital Srinagar after remaining suspended for the past five days, an official said. The traffic was allowed to ply on the 270-km highway – the only all weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country – from […]
‘Suspected movement’ along IB in Samba sends forces into tizzy
JAMMU: Security Forces conducted an overnight search operation near the International Border in Jammu’s Samba district following information about movement of three armed persons, a police official said Tuesday. The information about the movement of the suspected persons in the ManoharGopala area was received around 2130 hours Monday, the official said. Immediately, a joint search […]
India-Pak armies trade fire in Poonch
Jammu: Pakistani troops Tuesday violated ceasefire in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir by firing two rounds of rocket launchers towards an Army camp along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Krishna Ghati sector, an army officer said. Indian troops did not retaliate to the “deliberate provocation” to avoid civilian casualties across the border, […]
Taliban takes centre stage as Kabul cut out of peace talks
Kabul: President Ashraf Ghani is being pushed to the sidelines as the Taliban ignores his overtures for peace and negotiates instead with his friends, and enemies, over the future of Afghanistan. From Doha to Moscow, the insurgents are meeting an array of envoys with competing interests in Afghanistan, from the United States eager to withdraw […]
US national pays over $1 lakh to hunt Pak’s national animal
Islamabad: An American has hunted Pakistan’s national animal and rare wildlife species markhor after paying a record USD 110,000 permit fee during a trophy hunting season in the country’s northern Gilgit-Baltistan region. Markhor, a distinctive species of wild goat identified by its long hair and spiralled horns, is a protected species in Pakistan unless permitted […]