JAMMU — A 17-year-old Afghan national was on Tuesday arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir police at Lakhanpur in Kathua district while on his way to Kashmir. Identified as Abdul Rehmani of Kabul, the teenager had come to India on valid travel documents in July this year as an attendant to his brother, an Afghan […]
NEW DELHI — Prominent Muslim body Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind on Monday advocated setting up of separate schools and colleges for girls and said non-Muslims should also refrain from giving co-education to their daughters to “keep them away from immorality and misbehaviour”. In a statement issued after the working committee meeting of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind (Maulana Arshad […]
KABUL — The Taliban have proclaimed “full independence” for Afghanistan after the last US soldiers flew out following 20 years of war. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said early Tuesday that “American soldiers left the Kabul airport, and our nation got its full independence.” The US confirmed its last forces withdrew ahead of a Tuesday deadline, […]
BUDGAM — Jammu and Kashmir Police has recovered a Sculpture from a local in Khansahib area in central Kashmir’s Budgam district after getting reports that the local was attempting to sell it. An official told that the Sculpture was recovered from the house of Nawaz Ahmad Sheikh son of Abdul Rashid Sheikh, a resident of […]
QAZIGUND — A motorcyclist was killed while two others were injured after a tractor and motorcycle collided with each other at Y K Pora village of Qazigund area in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Monday evening. Official sources told that an accident occurred when a motorcycle and a tractor had a head-on-collision at Y K […]
NEW DELHI — COVID-19 has devastated many lives and it is “heart wrenching” that the survival of children who lost either or both parents during the pandemic is at stake, the Supreme Court said, but expressed satisfaction over schemes announced by the Centre and states to provide succour to them. The apex court said that […]
SRINAGAR — Senior leader and former minister Prof. Saif-ud-din Soz Monday said that the Supreme Court of India has shown itself in poor light by not including Justice Akil Kurashi in the list of nine judges that the collegium has recommended to the government. In a statement, Soz said that the general run of people […]
SRINAGAR — An advertisement – seeking girls, house wives and widows for a leading spa in Delhi – that featured on Kashmir’s leading newspaper has caused shock and anger in the region. The advertisement placed by Walnut Adverstisers on Greater Kashmir newspaper had sought “girls, house wife’s, widows for a leading spa in New Delhi” […]
BUDGAM — The subscribers of private telecommunication companies have complained of erratic mobile services in several villages of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. The residents of Kralpatheri, Rayaar, Mujhpathri, Gurwath, Chakshaira Khansahab villages said both the call connectivity and internet services in these area are poor for the past several years. They said that they cannot […]
NEW DELHI— “Convict him or acquit him,” an anguished Supreme Court observed on non-framing of charges on an accused jailed for 11 years over serial blasts in multiple Rajdhani Express and other trains in 1993. Underlining the right to speedy trial, the top court sought a report from the special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) […]