Kashmir

Miscreants tried to torch a government school in Bandipora, police registers case

BANDIPORA — Police on Thursday registered a case and started investigation after some miscreants tried to torch a government Primary School at Mantrigam village of North Kashmir’s Bandipora district. Officials at the school told that late last evening some miscreants with an “evil intention” tried to set ablaze the school building at Lonipora, Mantrigam, however, […]

India

‘Very disturbing trend’ — SC on filing of sedition cases after governments change

NEW DELHI — Filing of sedition cases when regimes change is a disturbing trend, the Supreme Court said on Thursday, granting protection from arrest to a suspended senior IPS officer against whom two criminal cases for offence of sedition and amassing disproportionate assets have been filed by the Chhattisgarh government. A bench headed by Chief […]