Indian Hockey names 33-member squad for 2018 season
Bengaluru: Fit-again PR Sreejesh made a return after recovering from a long-injury lay-off as Hockey India (HI) on Wednesday announced a 33-member squad for the first national camp beginning here on Thursday. Sreejesh will be is vying to find top form after nearly eight months of break due to a knee injury. He had suffered […]
Guv inaugurates All India Inter University Roll Tournament
Jammu: Governor N.N. Vohra inaugurated the All India Inter University Roll Ball (M&W) Tournament at the University of Jammu. This Tournament has been organized by the Directorate of Sports and Physical Education of the University. 47 teams, comprising 23 Women and 24 Men teams from all over India, are participating in this 5 day Tournament. […]
Secy Sports Council visits Chamber house
Jammu: The Secretary Sports Council Waheed Ur Rehman Parra Wednesday visited Chamber House and was warmly welcomed By President Chamber of Commerce & Industry Rakesh Gupta along with his team. On this occasion, as per the statement issued here, Para informed the Chamber about so much was being done in the field of Sports which […]
OGW among three held in Baramulla
Srinagar: Police on Wednesday arrested three persons including an Over Ground Worker (OGW) from Pattan area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. A police officer said that a joint team of army’s 29 RR and SOG during a naka at Zangam Bridge in Pattan area and arrested the trio. The official said that arms and ammunition […]
Youth shot dead in Sopore
Sopore: Unidentified gunmen Wednesday evening fired upon a youth in Sopore area of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Identified as Arif Ahmad Sofi (25), son of Mohammad Maqbool Sofi resident of Wahipora Unisoo, the youth, a labourer by profession, was fired upon by unidentified gunmen. He was rushed to the local hospital where doctors declared him […]
‘Terror funding’: NIA opposes ‘stone pelter’s’ bail plea
New Delhi: The National Investigating Agency (NIA) today opposed before a Delhi court the bail application of an alleged stone pelter, arrested from Kashmir Valley in a terror case, citing his “anti-national” activities. The agency, probing funding of terror and separatist activities in the valley, told District Judge Poonam A Bamba that 24-year-old Javed Ahmed […]
Benefits of SRO-43 of 1994 to be extended to ReTs: Altaf Bukhari
JAMMU: Minister for Education Altaf Bukhari today said that the benefits of SRO-43 of 1994 will be extended to the Rehbar-e-Taleem (ReT) teachers of School Education Department. This was decided in a meeting convened by the Minister in his office chamber, with the officers of the concerned department, here today. Principal Secretary Higher Education Department […]
Palestinians say won’t be ‘blackmailed’ after Trump threat
Ramallah: Palestinian leaders said today they will not be “blackmailed” after US President Donald Trump threatened to cut aid worth more than USD 300 million annually, his latest provocative move that could upturn years of careful diplomacy. Relations between Trump’s White House and the Palestinians were already tense after the US president’s recognition of […]
BSF trooper killed in cross-border fire in Samba sector
Jammu: A BSF jawan deployed along the India- Pakistan border in Jammu was killed today in an incident of unprovoked firing, a defence official said. Head Constable R P Hazra was killed after Pakistan forces “sniped” from across the border in the Samba sector of Jammu and Kashmir. Retaliatory fire has been initiated, a senior […]
Panama case: Sharif says no proof of any wrongdoing
Islamabad: Pakistan’s ousted premier Nawaz Sharif today claimed he was disqualified by the Supreme Court on flimsy grounds and said there was no proof of any wrongdoing by him, after appearing in the anti-graft court trying him for alleged corruption in three cases. The cases are related to the Panama Papers scandal that had forced […]
