JAMMU — A retired Sub Inspector of police was killed and four persons including a 6-year-old girl were injured in an accident between a private car and an army vehicle at Nowshera area in Rajouri district on Tuesday. Official sources told that the accident took place at Nowshera area on Jammu-Poonch highway, resulting in death […]
BHOPAL — Violence gripped Madhya Pradesh school when workers of the right-wing group Bajrang Dal, along with hundreds of locals, were seen barging into a school in Madhya Pradesh and throwing stones at the building on Monday, claiming religious conversion of students by the Christian Missionary institution, NDTV reported. The violence took place while the […]
ABU DHABI — The United Arab Emirates will move its weekend to Saturday and Sunday starting next year, the UAE media office said in a tweet on Tuesday. The shift is significant, given Friday has long been a sacred day for worshippers of Islam. Most countries in the Gulf have Friday to Saturday weekends. The […]
MUZAFFARNAGAR — In a horrible incident reported from Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh, at least 17 girl students of Class 10 were allegedly drugged and then molested by two school managers on the pretext of conducting a medical examination. The two managers have now been booked by police. The shocking incident took place in Purkazi […]
RIYADH — Friday preachers in Saudi Arabia will warn against Tablighi Jamaat group and its ‘misguidance that leads to terrorism’, as per the instructions of Ministry of Islamic Affairs announced according to MilliChronicle.com. Minister of Islamic Affairs, Dr. Abdullateef Aal-Sheikh directed the preachers of the mosques in which Friday prayers are held, to dedicate the […]
KOHIMA — The cabinet of Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio on Tuesday decided to call off the ongoing Hornbill Festival in protest against the killing of 14 civilians by security forces, official sources said. The state government has also decided to write to the Centre demanding the repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, […]
JAMMU — Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, on Tuesday said that the Delimitation Commission headed by retired Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai endeavours to complete the exercise of redrawing boundaries of Assembly and parliamentary constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir “as early as possible.” Responding to a question in the ongoing winter session […]
Umaisar Gull Ganie KULGAM — Setting an example of communal harmony and brotherhood, the local Muslims in Begam village of south Kashmir’s Kulgam Tuesday performed the last rites of their 75-year-old Hindu nneighbor. Lajwanti Devi, a resident of Begam village in Kulgam district was a Kashmiri Rajput Hindu and died at the age of 75 […]
SRINAGAR — Amid clear skies, Kashmir Valley and Ladakh recorded freezing cold conditions with the world-famous skiing resort of Gulmarg recording minus minimum of 7.0°C while Drass in Ladakh had the season’s coldest night at minus 18.4°C. A meteorological department official said that Srinagar, the summer capital of JK, recorded a minimum of minus 1.4°C […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir administration has served a notice to an employee of a Forest Department for criticising the Power Development Department over poor electricity supply in Kashmir during the winter season. The Hindu reported that an employee of the Forest Department, who holds the rank of a head assistant, has been served […]