LUCKNOW — The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has said that treating accused as convicts was not only unlawful but also a way of creating terror and panic. In a statement, the Board cited visuals on social media to highlight alleged police excesses on individuals detained on allegations of stone-pelting and violence. The […]
SRINAGAR — A Pakistani militant is among the two militants affiliated with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) outfit who were killed in an encounter that broke out between government forces and militants at Bemina area of Srinagar city on Monday night. Five policeman were also injured during the initial stage of encounter and they were rushed to hospital […]
NEW DELHI — Muslim body Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind filed two fresh pleas in the Supreme Court on Monday seeking directions to the Uttar Pradesh government to ensure that no further demolitions are carried out in the State without following due process and such exercise is done only after adequate notice. The organisation had earlier filed the […]
NEW DELHI — Hate speeches by elected representatives, political and religious leaders based on religion and caste bulldoze the constitutional ethos and violate constitutional provisions and therefore warrant stringent peremptory action on the part of central and state governments, said the Delhi High Court on Monday. Justice Chandra Dhari Singh, while noting that there have […]
NEW DELHI — Several student groups on Monday held demonstrations at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) here in support of former JNU student Afreen Fatima, whose house was razed by Uttar Pradesh authorities. The Prayagraj Development Authority (PDA) had on Sunday demolished the house of Javed Ahmad, the alleged mastermind […]
SRINAGAR — PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Monday claimed that Nupur Sharma’s controversial remark against Prophet Mohammad was the BJP’s strategy to divert people’s attention from the plight of Kashmiri Pandits, incite Muslims and provoke a backlash against them. Several states witnessed violent protests on Friday against the controversial remarks on Prophet Mohammad by two […]
BEIJING — China on Monday waded into the furore over the controversial remarks by two now-suspended BJP functionaries against Prophet Mohammad, expressing the hope that the incident can be properly managed. China, which faces serious allegations of a mass crackdown on Uygur Muslims in the volatile Xinjiang province, said it “believes that different civilisations, different […]
SRINAGAR — A 32-year-old woman was found dead allegedly under suspicious circumstances at her in-laws’ house in Kakroosa area of Handwara in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district. Reports reaching GNS said that the woman was found dead at her in-laws’ house this morning. Soon after news about the death of the woman (name withheld) broke, the […]
SRINAGAR — Hajj Committee of India (HCoI) has invited applications from students studying in its Residential Coaching Institute who are supposed to appear in civil services exams for year 2022-23 for which graduation/final year appeared candidate, has been kept as the essential qualification for filling up the form. The age limit will be as per […]
SRINAGAR — The transactions and other procedures have got affected in all branches of Jammu and Kashmir bank in view of new people- friendly software installation leaving the people to lurch at large. The news agency Kashmir News Observer has learnt that the system at all J&K bank branches have crashed hours ago. Locals said […]