NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the release of NewsClick founder and editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha, who was arrested by the Delhi Police under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act over allegations that the media outlet received money to spread pro-China propaganda. “There is no hesitation in the mind of the court to reach […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan appeared in the Supreme Court on Thursday by video from prison, in connection with a case he has filed against amendments to Pakistan’s anti-graft laws. This will be Imran’s first public appearance since his arrest in last August in a Toshakhana case. Earlier, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) spokesperson […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Meta on Thursday said it had removed the Facebook and Instagram accounts of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for violating its content policy. “We have removed these accounts for repeatedly violating our Dangerous Organizations & Individuals policy,” a Meta spokesperson told AFP. Though Meta did not mention the Israel-Hamas war, the […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — A spokesperson of Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) who was involved in many crimes including an attempt to jailbreak and raising anti-national slogans surrendered before police in Srinagar, the Jammu and Kashmir Police said on Sunday. “The accused person namely Ali Mohd Lone @ Advocate Zahid Ali, son of Habibullah Lone, resident of Nihama Pulwama, […]
JAMMU — Security forces have launched a massive search operation after picking up movement of three suspicious persons, believed to be militants, near the International Border in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Sunday. A Special Police Officer (SPO) reported the movement of suspected persons in Tarnah nallah near Jangi chak in […]
SRINAGAR — The blazing campaign trail in the prestigious Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency ended on Saturday, setting the stage for more than 17.32 lakh eligible voters to exercise their franchise in the fifth phase of the general elections on May 20. The first major political battle post the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019 will […]
JAMMU — A total of 26 lodgement centres have been set up in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district for pilgrims who will undertake the annual Amarnath Yatra in south Kashmir Himalayas, officials said on Saturday. The 52-day pilgrimage to the 3,880-metre-high cave shrine will commence from twin tracks –the traditional 48-km Nunwan-Pahalgam route in Anantnag […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — A former Sarpanch was shot dead, and a tourist couple from Rajasthan was injured in separate militant attacks in South Kashmir last night. Reports said, Aijaz Ahmad Sheikh, a former Sarpanch affiliated with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was critically injured after being fired upon by suspected militants in the Heerpora […]
JAMMU — The mercury continued its upward trend in Jammu on Saturday with the maximum temperature settling at 41.6 degrees Celsius, over three notches above the season’s average, the meteorological department said. However, the minimum temperature recorded in the winter capital city was near normal at 23.9 degrees Celsius, the official said. Jammu is reeling […]
JAMMU — National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday of dividing the people of the country on the basis of religion, saying his recent statements have even contradicted his own slogan of “Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas”. The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister claimed that the hatred […]
SRINAGAR — A convoy carrying Mehbooba Mufti, the former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and President of the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), met with an accident in Bijbehara area of South Kashmir. The incident resulted in injuries to one Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel. Reports reaching Srinagar based news agency Kashmir […]
GANDERBAL — A shopkeeper was stabbed to death at his shop in Perpora, Kachan area of central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Saturday, officials said. An official said that a shopkeeper was attacked with a sharp-edged knife in Perpora Kachan, Ganderbal this afternoon, leaving him severely injured. He added that the victim identified as Fayaz Ahmad […]
JAMMU — A former police officer has been arrested under the Official Secrets Act for publishing ‘sensitive information’ in his recently released book here, officials said on Saturday. Retired Superintendent of Police Mohammad Aslam Sheikh was arrested from his residence at Gandhi Nagar area of Jammu city late Friday night, the officials said. They said […]
