SRINAGAR — CPI (M) State Secretary Ghulam Nabi Malik on Wednesday condemned the allegedly custodial killing of Imran Bashir Ganai of Harman Shopian and demanded credible probe into this unfortunate incident. Malik in a statement said that it is widely perceived that the said person had not been involved in any unlawful activity. “Recently in […]
SRINAGAR — Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Agriculture Production Department, Atal Dulloo today inaugurated 550 metric ton (MT) capacity Cold Storage facility at Agri Complex Lal Mandi here. The 550 MT capacity cold storage facility would house perishable items and veggies for preservation at nominal charges to fetch marginal farmers’ attractive prices for their produce. On […]
SRINAGAR — Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha today chaired the first meeting of J&K Higher Education Council here at Raj Bhawan Auditorium. The Lt Governor stressed on the need to develop a pragmatic roadmap to enhance the potential of human resources and progressively transform J&K’s universities into economic growth centres. “Our Higher Education ecosystem needs to […]
PATNA — A Class 7 question paper in a school in Bihar allegedly contained a question that distinguished Kashmir from India, sparking a new controversy. The Bihar government’s Education Department conducted midterm examinations for the students of classes 1-8 from October 12 till October 18. In their English exam, the students of Class 7 were […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik, who is lodged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail in a terror financing case, on Wednesday appeared in a special court here through Video conferencing in connection with the 1990 killing of four Air Force personnel personnel. The special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act court […]
NEW DELHI — Outgoing Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday visited veteran leader Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence and congratulated him on winning the party presidential poll with a huge margin. Kharge, the first non-Gandhi president in over two decades, was declared winner after he garnered 7,897 votes against his rival Shashi Tharoor who could secure only […]
SRINAGAR — National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday filed chargesheet against 12 persons in connection with Sunjwan Jammu militant attack in April this year. In a statement, NIA said that the charge-sheet was filed in the Special Court Jammu against the accused persons in the case relating to the “conspiracy hatched among Kashmir based (militant) […]
HOBART — Fast bowling duo of Alzarri Joseph and Jason Holder shared seven wickets between themselves as two-time champions West Indies defeated Zimbabwe by 31 runs in a must-win Group B match in the first round of ICC Men’s T20 World Cup at Bellerive Oval on Wednesday to stay alive in the pursuit of making […]
NEW DELHI — The Congress on Wednesday elected Mallikarjun Kharge as its president, the first non-Gandhi to head the party in 24 years at a time the 137-year-old party is struggling to reverse its slide in the country’s electoral politics. A staunch Gandhi family loyalist from Karnataka, the 80-year-old leader defeated Shashi Tharoor in an […]
JAMMU — A policeman lost his life on Wednesday while saving his two children from drowning in a river in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district, officials said. The two children had slipped into the Ujh river while taking a bath in Jasrota area on Wednesday, they said. As father Seshipal Singh saw them drowning, he […]