RAJOURI — Jammu and Kashmir police arrested a Sarpanch with consignment of narcotics in Rajouri district on Friday. The arrested person is a Sarpanch of a panchayat near Line of Control (LoC) as well as an advocate in Jammu. In a press conference, Superintendent of Police Sheema N Qasba told that a team of Sunderbani […]
SRINAGAR — Security forces on Friday said that during a search on specific information it has recovered some ammunition in Tawheedgunj area of old town of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district. According to news agency Kashmir Dot Com, 46 RR and 53 battalion of CRPF found 9 Live Rounds and 46 empty cases of 7.62 mm […]
SRINAGAR — The Government on Friday decided to reduce the syllabi of private candidates of secondary and higher secondary classes of Jammu and Kashmir by forty percent following the closure of schools in view of COVID-19 pandemic. Jammu Kashmir Board of School Education (JKBOSE) has said, “In view of prevailing COVID-I9 pandemic, concession shall be […]
BEIJING — China on Friday expressed shock at the deadly suicide attacks at Kabul airport, saying the security situation in Afghanistan remained “complex and grave” and offered to work with the international community to deal with terrorist threats and prevent the war-ravaged country from becoming a hotbed of terrorism. During a media briefing here, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian […]
NEW DELHI — Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Maulana Masood Azhar, accompanied by his brother Abdul Rauf Azhar and Maulana Ammar, was in Kandahar in the third week of August, specifically from August 19 to 19, after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, a reports suggested. The JeM leaders reportedly met the Taliban to seek their support in […]
CHANDIGARH — Malvinder Singh Mali on Friday, August 27, quit as adviser to Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu. The resignation came a day after the party threatened to dismiss him over his controversial remarks, if Sidhu failed to remove him. However, Mali did not term it as a “resignation”. In a statement posted on […]
NAGPUR — A Biman Bangladesh plane going from Muscat to Dhaka made an emergency landing at Nagpur on Friday after the pilot suffered a heart attack, an airport official said. The Boeing aircraft with 126 passengers on board landed at 11.40 am, the official said. The pilot was admitted to a local hospital, he added. […]
NEW DELHI — In his first comments on Kashmir, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid has said that Pakistan and India should sit together to resolve all their outstanding issues because both are neighbours and their interests are linked to each other. Mujahid made the remarks during a wide-ranging interview with Pakistani TV channel ARY News. On […]
JAMMU — Dr Annil Mahajan, Honorary Professor Indian Medical Association, Consultant Physician & Rheumatologist and Former Prof & Head Internal Medicine, GMC Jammu; Dr Sudha Sharma, Honorary Professor Indian Medical Association & Consultant Gynaecologist & Obstetrician and Former Professor of Obst and Gynae, GMC Jammu and Dr Vishal R Tandon, Professor of Pharmacology GMC Jammu […]
KABUL — Two suicide bombers and gunmen attacked crowds of Afghans flocking to Kabul”s airport Thursday, transforming a scene of desperation into one of horror in the waning days of an airlift for those fleeing the Taliban takeover. The attacks killed at least 60 Afghans and 13 US troops, Afghan and US officials said. The […]