UJJAIN (MP) — Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh has said the people booked under the NSA in Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh some days ago for alleged inflammatory sloganeering were shouting ‘qazi sahab zindabad’ and not ‘Pakistan zindabad’. In a tweet on Sunday night, the Rajya Sabha MP said the slogan was tweaked on the basis […]
KOLKATA — India should not get militarily involved in Afghanistan, former IAF chief Arup Raha said on Monday, warning that China and Pakistan will burn their fingers by cosying up to the Taliban. The former Indian Air Force (IAF) air chief marshal said that the Taliban policy of China and Pakistan will backfire on them […]
KUPWARA — Ten hand grenades were recovered during a joint search operation conducted by army’s 160 TA, 17JAK RIF and SOG Kralpora in a residential house in Kralpora, officials said on Monday evening. They said that based on specific input, searches were launched in the residential house of Mohammad Yousaf Mir son of Mohammad Yaseen […]
SRINAGAR — A Central Reserve Police force (CRPF) Head Constable was on Monday evening injured after suspected militants lobbed a grenade in Eidgah area of Srinagar. Official sources told that the militants lobbed a grenade on CRPF bunker of 161 battalion at Ali Masjid at Eidgah area of Srinagar. They said that a CRPF HC […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday evening killed two militants including a top commander in a shootout in Alochibagh area of Srinagar city. The duo were identified as Mohammad Abbas Sheikh LeT/TRF Commander son of Ghulam Hassan Sheikh from Rampora Koimoh in Kulgam district and Saqib Manzoor Dar son of Manzoor Ahmad Dar […]
SRINAGAR — All Parties Hurriyat Conference led by incarcerated chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has distanced itself against what it called as “propaganda” being promoted in several media outlets by the authorities about selling admission seats in various medical and technical colleges of Pakistan to aspiring candidates in Kashmir. In a statement, APHC said that it […]
SRINAGAR — Five persons including three jungle smugglers were shifted to Kot Bhalwal Jail Jammu under Public Safety Act. Police sources told news agency Kashmir News Trust that police had arrested three jungle smugglers from South Kashmir’s Shopian district. On the recommendations of Forest Department, PSA was slapped upon them. All these three jungle smugglers […]
NRW DELHI — A Muslim man who was selling bangles was thrashed by a group of men in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore city on Sunday, according to an NDTV report. The 25-year-old man’s police complaint says that the mob also stole Rs 10,000 from him. According to reports, a police case was only registered after “hundreds […]
CHANDIGARH — Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday summoned his advisors Pyare Lal Garg and Malwinder Mali to his house over their statements on Kashmir and India-Pakistan ties, according to the Hindustan Times. This comes a day after Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh castigated the statements of the two advisors. Mali had questioned […]
KABUL — An estimated one million Afghan children are projected to suffer from severe acute malnutrition over the course of this year and could die without treatment, the UN warned on Monday, the Anadolu Agency reported. In a statement, reports said, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said around 10 million children across Afghanistan need humanitarian […]