Landslide hits car on Srinagar-Jammu highway
Jammu: Four people escaped unhurt when their car was hit by a landslide on the Jammu-Srinagar Highway in Ramban district Tuesday, officials said. The car was hit by rocks when it was crossing the highway at Anokhi falls. However, the occupants escaped unhurt. (PTI)
Useless to talk to India at this juncture: Pak Minister
Says Pak to resume talks with India only after elections
Says Pak to resume talks with India only after elections
Barring the media: Police official’s ‘over ambitious’ attitude led to 26 Jan press fiasco
SRINAGAR: An “overenthusiastic” officer in the security wing of Jammu and Kashmir Police took the decision to bar some journalists with adverse reports against them from attending the Republic Day function here, leading to a chaos, officials said on Monday. After preliminary enquiry, it was found that the officer of the additional superintendent of police-rank […]
Denial of entry is attack on press freedom: Editors Guild
New Delhi: The Editors Guild of India on Monday said the denial of entry to several senior journalists into a stadium in Srinagar to cover the Republic Day function was an “unprecedented state-sponsored attack” on press freedom and demanded an inquiry into the incident. Journalists in Srinagar had staged a protest against the Jammu and […]
‘ODOMOS’ is overdose of ‘only Modi only Shah’: Omar Abdullah
Shimla: National Conference leader Omar Abdullah Monday coined a new acronym to target the BJP. Omar said that the country was suffering from too much “ODOMOS- overdose of only Modi only Shah”. “While the rest of the country suffers from too much ODOMOS – overdose (of) only Modi only Shah,” the former chief minister of […]
Pak to completely fence 2,600-km-long Afghan border by next year
Islamabad: The Pakistan Army has said that the fencing of a substantial portion of the over 2,600-km-long Afghan border has been completed and the rest will be finished by next year to check the movement of terrorists. Pakistan has spent billions of rupees for putting fence on the porous border. Army spokesman Major General AsifGhafoor […]
Reconsider order reversing previous govt’s decision exempting women from stamp duty: BJP to Malik
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir unit of the BJP Monday urged Governor Satya Pal Malik to reconsider the Finance Department’s notification reversing the previous government’s “historic decision” of exempting women from paying stamp duty on registration of land. The statement comes days after former chief minister and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said Malik’s move to reverse […]