JAMMU — Authorities on Monday imposed Section 144 in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba to prevent rallies and protests on the national highway, officials said. An order issued by Anuradha Gupta, District Magistrate, Samba, reads “Section 144 will come into force on August 29 and remain for 2 months”. The order reads that Supreme Court in […]
ISLAMABAD — A huge relief operation was under way Monday and international aid began trickling in as Pakistan struggled to deal with monsoon flooding that has affected more than 33 million people. Officials said 1,061 people have died since June when the seasonal rains began, but the final toll could be higher as hundreds of […]
KARACHI — Pakistan’s top pace bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi will undergo treatment of his knee injury in London and he is expected to regain complete fitness before the T20 World Cup starting mid-October, the PCB said on Monday. Shaheen has departed for London where he will undergo rehabilitation of his injury which he sustained while […]
SRINAGAR — The flow of passengers has declined at Srinagar international airport while the authorities said that only 10,000 passengers are being handled per day. The officials also said that the new integrated terminal is an advanced stage and is set to enhance the passenger capacity to 6.5 million. Director Srinagar Airport, Kuldeep Singh told […]
SRINAGAR — The problem was not with mass gathering but the offering of namaz, National Conference leader Omar Abdullah said on Monday after FIR was lodged against 25 people in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad after they offered namaz at an open space. According to a police official, the case has been registered under the Indian Penal […]
NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court on Monday reserved its order on a father’s plea to perform last rites, at the burial site, of his son, who was killed in the Hyderpora encounter in Srinagar in November last year. Senior advocate Anand Grover, representing Mohammad Latief Magrey, submitted before a bench of Justices Surya Kant […]
JAMMU — A surrendered militant was detained under Public Safety Act (PSA) for his alleged involvement in “anti-national and anti-social” activities in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir, and lodged in Kot Bhalwal Jail in Jammu, officials said on Monday. The order for the detention of Mohammad Amin Wani, a resident of Bankoot village of […]
SRINAGAR — Former MLA and prominent leader of Apni Party Shoiab Nabi Lone on Monday threw his weight behind former CM Ghulam Nabi Azad. In a letter, a copy of which is in possession of news agency Kashmir News Observer, Shoiab said that he alongwith his delegates and colleagues extends his full support to Ghulam […]
JAMMU — Four more Congress leaders, including former deputy speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Gulam Hyder Malik, and a dozen prominent workers of the Apni Party resigned from their respective parties on Monday in support of veteran politician Ghulam Nabi Azad. Azad (73), a former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, ended his five-decade […]
NEW DELHI — Ghulam Nabi Azad, who quit the Congress last week, today said the party’s top decision-making body, the Congress Working Committee, is “meaningless” today. He also slammed what he called “Rahul Gandhi’s policy of attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi left, right and centre.” “The present CWC is meaningless. Under Sonia Gandhi, there was […]