Setback: Nagaland Cabinet rejects citizenship bill
Kohima: The Nagaland Cabinet has rejected the citizenship bill, following pressure from various tribal organisations and students bodies. Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio and Chief Secretary Temjen Toy, in a press release, said that taking into account the will and desire of all sections of the people, the Cabinet meeting on Monday made it amply clear […]
Pakistan gets a first Hindu woman judge
Islamabad/Karachi:SumanKumari has become the first Hindu woman to be appointed as a civil judge in Muslim-majority Pakistan. Suman, who hails from Qambar-Shahdadkot in Sindh province, will serve in her native district. She passed her LLB examination from Hyderabad and did her masters in law from Karachi’s Szabist University. “I have entered the field of law […]
Palestinian government ‘submits resignation’ to President Abbas
Ramallah (Palestinian Territories): The Palestinian government officially submitted its resignation to President Mahmud Abbas Tuesday, a statement said, though it will remain in place while a new administration is formed. Analysts see the change in government as an attempt by Abbas to strengthen his position and further isolate his political rivals Hamas as a decade-long […]
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 […]
US, Taliban agree in principle to framework of peace deal: Report
Washington: In a possible breakthrough, the US and the Taliban have agreed in principle to the framework of a peace deal that moves both parties toward ending the 17-year war in Afghanistan, a media report said Monday. The draft outlines a commitment from the Taliban that Afghan soil will not be used by terrorists, and the […]
IWT row: Pak team to visit Chenab basin next week
New Delhi: A Pakistani delegation will visit the Chenab river basin in Jammu and Kashmir for inspection from January 28 to 31, as mandated under the Indus Water Treaty, sources said. Pakistan’s Indus Commissioner Syed Mohammad Mehar Ali Shah will arrive in India along with his two advisers, sources said. “This tour is an obligation […]
Nawaz Sharif’s lawyer files plea for suspension of sentence
Seeks bail on health grounds
Islamabad: Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s lawyer on Saturday filed a petition in the high court here for suspension of his sentence and seeking bail on medical grounds for the incarcerated PML-N leader. Sharif has been incarcerated in the KotLakhpat jail in Lahore after he was sentenced to seven years in jail by an […]
President confers Ashoka Chakra on Nazir Wani
New Delhi: Lance Naik Nazir Ahmad Wani, a militant-turned-soldier who laid down his life fighting a group of terrorists in Shopian in Kashmir in November, was awarded the Ashoka Chakra by President Ram NathKovind Saturday. The award — India’s highest peacetime gallantry honour — was received by Wani’s wife and mother at the Republic Day […]
