India to procure fighter jets, missile systems, weapons worth 38,900 Cr
New Delhi: In the midst of India’s tense border standoff with China, the defence ministry on Thursday approved procurement of a number of frontline fighter jets, missile systems and other platforms at a cost of Rs 38,900 crore to bolster the combat capability of the armed forces, officials said. They said 21 MiG-29 fighter jets […]
Rajnath’s planned visit to Ladakh rescheduled: Sources
New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s planned visit to Ladakh on Friday has been rescheduled, official sources said on Thursday. It was not immediately known why the visit has been postponed. The sources said Singh will “soon” undertake the visit to Ladakh to take stock of India’s military preparedness in the region where Indian and […]
NIA arrests one more accused in Pulwama attack
New Delhi: The NIA arrested one more accused on Thursday in connection with last year’s Pulwama terror attack, in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed, an official said. Mohammad Iqbal Rather (25), a resident of Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam, had allegedly facilitated the movement of Muhammad Umar Farooq — a member of the Pakistan-based terror […]
Transgenders may soon land up as combat officers in CAPF
New Delhi: Transgenders can soon aspire to lead combat troops in central paramilitary forces as the government is mulling allowing them take the annual UPSC exam for recruitment as officers in these forces deployed across the country for various internal security duties, officials said on Thursday. Sources in the security establishment told PTI that with […]
Four die as well collapses in Kupwara
Kupwara: Two siblings were among four persons who died after a well they were working on collapsed here in Warsun Dardpora area of Kralpora on Thursday, reports and officials said. Reports said that the persons were working on an under-construction well at Singhdan area of Krusan Wavura. In the meantime, it collapsed and the four […]
Civilians’ killing: Police must find out whose bullet killed my father: Slain man’s daughter
Srinagar: Family members of the civilian man who was killed during a militant attack on a CRPF party in Sopore town of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district yesterday, asked police to come out with substantial evidence as to whose bullet killed their father. “We respect IGP Kashmir. He has stated that family members of slain man […]
Plea filed in NHRC for impartial probe
Srinagar: A day after 65-year-old Bashir Ahmad Khan was killed in north Kashmir’s Sopore town, an activist on Thursday moved the National Human Rights Commission for an impartial probe in it. A New Delhi-based activist today filed a petition in the NHRC for an impartial probe in the killing, citing different versions of police and […]
Intimate about custodial, encounter deaths: NHRC to JK, Ladakh admin
New Delhi: The NHRC has asked the Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh to intimate it about any custodial or encounter death, in accordance with guidelines, officials said on Thursday. In case of custodial deaths, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) should be intimated within 24 hours, and within 48 hours of the […]
Militants using mosques, a new but serious dimension: CRPF Official
Srinagar: Special Director General of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Zulfikar Hassan Thursday said that use of mosques by the militants to target the forces is highly “reprehensible” and that the masjid committees must ensure that religious places aren’t allowed to be “hijacked” by militants. He termed it as a new but serious dimension in […]
A ‘long drive’ that proved agonizing
Srinagar: Bashir Ahmed Khan, 65, took his grandson along early this morning for a long ride from Srinagar to Sopore area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, where he was supposed to oversee the progress of a construction work at one of his projects. Khan, being a contractor, was heading towards the construction site in Sopore […]
