NEW YORK — US President Donald Trump has brokered several peace deals, including the “very dangerous ones like India and Pakistan”, and deserves “tremendous credit” for reshaping America’s foreign policy, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said. During a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday, Rubio said for the first time in decades, […]
JAMMU — Scores of protesters took to the streets in Jammu and Kashmir’s Katra town on Tuesday against the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board, demanding an immediate rollback of the proposed ropeway project, officials said. Locals of Katra, the base camp for the Vaishno Devi pilgrimage, have been opposing the Rs 250-crore ropeway project, […]
SRINAGAR — Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday asked the party cadres to coordinate with people and resolve their grievances as the government has failed on all fronts. She chaired a meeting of district office-bearers and senior leaders at the PDP headquarters in Srinagar to review the party’s activities at the grassroots level, […]
JAMMU — A BJP delegation met Union J P Nadda on Tuesday in Delhi, seeking reservation for Hindus in admissions at Katra’s Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical Excellence (SMVDIME), a party spokesperson said. The college, run by the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board, has been accused by a certain section of activists […]
JAMMU — Police have arrested two notorious criminals and recovered three pistols and ammunition following an investigation into a firing incident on the outskirts of Jammu city, officials said on Tuesday. “Two notorious criminals were arrested by police in the Domana jurisdiction, and three pistols, ammunition and a sharp-edged weapon were recovered,” Superintendent of Police […]
PULWAMA (KIMS) — Pulwama Police has sought public assistance to trace Mehvish Shamim, aged around 20, daughter of Shamim Ahmad Allie, a resident of Okhoo Kakpora, who has been missing since Monday morning. Police said the missing report was filed by her uncle, Muzamil Ali, son of Ali Mohammad Lone of Okhoo, upon which Police […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir government has approved relaxation in the upper age limit for recruitment to government jobs in the Union Territory, a ruling National Conference MLA said on Tuesday. “The (J-K CM’s) Secretariat has confirmed to me that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has approved and forwarded the age relaxation,” MLA Zadibal Tanvir […]
NEW DELHI — Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Kumar Choudhary, who has filed a defamation suit, on Tuesday urged the Delhi High Court for a direction to remove certain objectionable content against him on social media. Choudhary, a member of the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference, sought permanent and mandatory injunction alleging that […]
JAMMU — The CBI was left red-faced on Tuesday when a special court set free Shafat Ahmed Shangloo, a day after the agency arrested him in connection with the 1989 kidnapping of Rubaiyya Sayeed — the daughter of the then home minister Mufi Mohammed Sayeed. Shangloo was produced before the special TADA court, where the […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday defended merit-based admissions to the Shri Mata Vaishnodevi Institute of Medical Excellence (SMVDIME), saying seats cannot be distributed on the basis of religion under the Constitution. “When the decision was taken to set up a medical college at the university, it was already known […]