Six including Hamas commander killed in Israel attack on Gaza
Srinagar: Officials in Gaza strip of Occupied Palestine have said that at least six Palestinians have been killed and six others wounded by Israeli forces. Health and security officials in the Gaza Strip say that Israel carried out a ground incursion in the besieged enclave. Aljazeera reported that spokesperson for the Ministry of Health in […]
Revoke SRO-425, its discriminatory: Sikh Community
Srinagar: Kashmiri Sikh Community on Monday held a sit in here to demand revocation of SRO-425 in Jammu and Kashmir. Protesters said that SRO- 425 totally injustice with Kashmiri Sikhs and is discriminatory. “In 2009 under prime minister’s package approximately 3000 posts were created for migrants. Out of 3000 posts, 500 posts were kept reserved for […]
Pakistan arrests 12 Indian fishermen
Karachi,(PTI): Twelve Indian fishermen have been arrested by Pakistani authorities for allegedly straying into the country’s territorial waters off the coast of Sindh province, a security official said Monday. They were arrested over the weekend by personnel of the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) during an operation. A security official told PTI that two boats of […]
SC declines early hearing of pleas in Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute case
New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court Monday declined early hearing of petitions in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute case. A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice S K Kaul said it had already listed the appeals before the appropriate bench in January. “We have already passed the order. The appeals are coming up […]
Three inmates injured inside Baramulla lockup scuffle, police
Srinagar: Three youths who were arrested allegedly on charges of stone pelting suffered injuries inside a police lockup in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district after they had scuffle with each other, police said. SSP Baramulla Imtiyaz Hussain said that the “stone pelters” were locked up and under proper remand from Court fought with each other […]
Man stabbed by unknown gunmen in Pulwama
Srinagar: Unidentified men stabbed one person after barging into his house in Nowpora Payeen village of the southern Kashmir’s Pulwama district. The incident happened on Sunday. Sources said that a 30-year-old man Shabir Ahmad Ganai was stabbed in his stomach. He was admitted to District Hospital Pulwama.
Govt to sell shares of people who migrated to Pakistan: Report
NEW DELHI: The Union government has said it will sell stocks worth millions of dollars seized from people who moved to Pakistan following the partition and the wars since, as a way to make up for a shortfall in revenues. The stocks worth at least Rs30 billion ($412.26 million) are part of what India calls […]
Union Minister Ananth Kumar dies
Bengaluru, Nov 12 (PTI) Senior BJP leader and Union Minister Ananth Kumar died early monday morning in Bengaluru, officials said. Parliamentary Affairs and Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister, Kumar was not keeping well for sometime and was on ventilator for the last few days, Ministry officials said. He was 59. Kumar was a BJP MP from […]
BJP gets control of all civic bodies in Kathua
Kathua: Bharatiya Janata Party members were elected to the top positions in all the six municipal bodies in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district on Saturday, officials said. Former Congress leader Naresh Sharma, who recently joined the BJP along with three party councillors, was elected president of the Kathua Municipal Council, while Rekha Kumari was elected […]
India slams UNSC Sanctions Committees for ‘opacity’, ‘lack of accountability’
United Nations, Nov 11 (PTI) India has slammed the UN Security Council’s Sanctions Committees, saying they are opaque and lack accountability and never inform the reason for not acceding to requests for sanctioning militants, in an apparent reference to China repeatedly blocking New Delhi’s bid to list Pakistan-based JeM chief Masood Azhar as a global […]