NEW DELHI — The Indian Women’s Press Corps (IWPC) on Friday condemned the killing of an Afghan journalist’s relative by Taliban fighters and called upon the international community to make every effort to stop such “barbarity”. It also hoped that the Taliban will keep its word and protect the freedom of press, not harass journalists, […]
SRINAGAR — Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha today chaired weekly meetings with Covid Task Force, SSPs, and reviewed the Covid response and containment measures of the Districts’ Administrations. Emphasizing on adopting multifold strategies to prevent the Third wave, the Lt Governor passed specific directions for further enhancing the Testing and Tracing in the coming days. Maximum […]
SRINAGAR — J&K Students Association condemned the attack on Kashmiri Youth who was brutally thrashed by a group of 12 goons at Sector 44 area of Gurgoan in Haryana State. In a Statement, Spokesperson Nasir Khuehami urged Home Minister Amit Shah, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and J&K LG Manoj Sinha for action against […]
KOLKATA — Facebook on the night of August 18 disabled the ‘No Vote to BJP’ group which had more than 33,000 members and which had campaigned against Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the West Bengal assembly polls earlier this year. The group is run by members of the platform, ‘Bengal against Fascist BJP-RSS’. Many political […]
SRINAGAR — Mutahida Majlis-e-Ulema (MMU) — an amalgam of various religious organisations in Jammu and Kashmir — said the closure of major places of worship in the Valley on Fridays has hurt the religious sentiments of the people. The statement came after congregational prayers at the historic Jama Masjid in the Nowhatta area of the […]
SRINAGAR — A Kashmiri youth was beaten by a group of six unidentified men on Thursday evening outside his office in Gurgaon area of Haryana. Tariq Bhat, a 22-year-old from north Kashmir’s Handwara town, who works in a corporate company in Gurgaon, was leaving for his home when the six men dressed in formal clothes […]
SRINAGAR — Two local militants of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen militant group were killed in an encounter between government forces and militants at Khrew area of Pampore town in Pulwama district on Friday morning. The slain militants have been identified as Musaib Ahmad Bhat from Khrew Pampore and Muzamil Ahmad Rather from Chakoora Pulwama. Earlier joint team of […]
SRINAGAR — A day after a BJP sarpanch was held for possessing a pistol and ammunition in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district, the saffron party has asked the police to conduct a CID verification of all the 1,270 party workers in Kulgam, the New Indian Express reported. BJP sarpanch Aqib Shafi Badder and his associate were […]
KABUL — An Afghan footballer who played for the national youth team fell to his death after trying to cling to a US plane airlifting people out of Taliban-controlled Kabul, a sports federation has said. The General Directorate of Physical Education and Sports of Afghanistan, a government institution that worked with sporting groups, confirmed the […]
NEW DELHI — Former United States president Donald Trump, who has emerged as one of the strongest critics of the current US administration over the worsening situation in Afghanistan after the Taliban’s takeover, hit out at former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani. Ghani, who fled Afghanistan on August 15 after the Taliban took over the capital […]