GST having negative effect on tourism in J&K: Par panel
New Delhi, Dec 24 (PTI) The Goods and Services Tax has had a “negative” effect on tourism in Jammu and Kashmir, a parliamentary panel has noted, adding the Centre should reconsider the indirect tax regime on tourism-related activities in the northern state. The Committee on Development of Tourism in Jammu and Kashmir, in its report, […]
Another PDP leader quits party in Banihal
Srinagar: The PDP Monday suffered another setback when its senior leader and former bureaucrat Bashir Ahmad Runyal announced his decision to quit the party. Runyal, a former IAS officer who was Ramban district president and state secretary of the PDP, had joined the party prior to the 2014 assembly polls after his retirement and had […]
Imran Khan should learn from India: Owaisi
Hyderabad, Dec 24 (PTI) Member of Parliament and AIMIM president Asauddin Owaisi took to Twitter to hit out at Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan over the latter’s remark that he would show the Narendra Modi government “how to treat minorities”. In a tweet on Sunday, Owaisi said Khan should instead take a lesson from India’s […]
Nawaz Sharif gets 7 years in Jail
Islamabad: Pakistan’s ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif gets 7 years in jail in Al-Azizia case; court acquits him in Flagship case: Pakistan media. (PTI)
Snooping on peoples gadgets, PIL filed in SC
New Delhi: A PIL was filed on Monday in the Supreme Court challenging the government’s notification authorising 10 central agencies to intercept, monitor and decrypt any computer system. The petition filed by advocate Manohar Lal Sharma seeks quashing of the government’s December 20 notification. According to the government’s notification, 10 Central probe and snoop agencies […]
Pak court to deliver judgment in two corruption cases against Sharif
Islamabad, Dec 24 (PTI) An anti-corruption court in Pakistan will deliver its judgment on Monday in two remaining corruption cases against ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif. Judge Muhammad Arshad Malik of Islamabad-based accountability court last week reserved the judgment after completion of hearing in the Flagship Investment and Al-Azizia cases against 68-year-old Sharif. The Supreme Court […]
Pak army to use GPS-guided mortars: Reports
New Delhi: Pakistan plans to make use of GPS-guided mortar for precision attacks in the time to come, Zee News reported. It has been learnt that Pakistan is in the weapons market to purchase the special and technologically advanced mortar which only a few countries currently have in their arsenal. Apart from some European countries, […]
Man eater leopard killed in Reasi
Jammu: A leopard, believed to be a man-eater after it killed two boys recently, was shot dead in a village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district, officials said on Monday. The fully-grown leopard had killed eight-year-old Rehmat Ali and Wasim Akram (3) in the district’s Mahore belt on December 8 and 17, respectively. The authorities […]
Shortage of doctors triggers protests in Sopore
Bilal Ahmad Sopore: Scores of residents including women patients of north Kashmir’s Sopore area are up in arms against the shortage of doctors at the ‘Mother and Child Hospital Sopore’. Reports said that patients staged a protest at Iqbal market Sopore against the non availability of doctors. They said that the concern authorities are not […]
Hunt for survivors as Indonesian tsunami death toll tops 280
Carita (Indonesia), Dec 24 (AFP) Indonesian rescuers battled heavy rains Monday in a desperate search for survivors after a volcano-triggered tsunami killed at least 281 people, with experts warning the devastated region could be slammed by more tidal waves. The national disaster agency said casualty figures were set to rise as it issued the fresh death […]
