SRINAGAR — Five days ago, at 3 am, Bashir Ahmad, the owner of a houseboat on the river Jhelum in the Lal Mandi area of Srinagar, heard the sound of something screeching. The wind was loud and tempestuous and it was very dark, so at first Bashir thought the screeching sound was due to a […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Saturday flagged off a run for ”polythene-free Srinagar” from the city’s historic Lal Chowk. The initiative is aimed at making streets, lakes and communities cleaner to bring about better environmental sustainability in the union territory, he said. “Flagged-off ”Run for Polythene-Free Srinagar” from iconic Ghanta Ghar, […]
NEW DELHI — Four months after the Jammu and Kashmir administration notified a New Industrial Policy allowing investments from outside, projects worth Rs 23,000 crore have been “locked” in the Union Territory, and four big corporates are in various stages of being allotted land. Sources in the J&K administration said Rs 11,000 crore of the new […]
ANEW DELHI — Criticising the CBI and IB, the Supreme Court said Friday that the agencies are “not helping the judiciary at all” in matters relating to security of judges. It said police and CBI do not respond to complaints from judges, the Indian Express Reported. Heading a two-judge bench which took up the suo […]
NEW DELHI — Every child has a right to use his/her mother’s surname instead of the father’s, the Delhi High Court said on Friday, the New Indian Express Reported. Disposing of a petition filed by a minor girl’s father seeking directions to the authorities that his name is reflected as daughter’s surname and not the […]
SRINAGAR — The Enforcement Directorate Friday served a notice on the mother of former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti in connection with a case related to money laundering, official said here. The summons served on Gulshan Nazir, who is in her late seventies, has asked her to appear before the ED’s Srinagar office […]
KABUL — The city of Zaranj in Afghanistan’s Nimroz province has reportedly fallen to the Taliban, making it the first provincial capital the insurgents have captured as they step up offensives. “I can confirm… the city of Zaranj, provincial capital of Nimroz, has fallen to the Taliban,” Roh Gul Khairzad, the deputy governor, told AFP […]
JAMMU — All government schools in Jammu and Kashmir will be renamed after the name of armed forces personnel and officers who lost their lives in the Union Territory. All government-run schools in JK will be renamed after deceased armed forces personnel and officers of the Indian Army, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), and […]
NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced that the Khel Ratna award would be renamed after hockey legend major Dhyan Chand. The Khel Ratna, India’s highest sporting honour, had been originally named after former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. Announcing the decision on Twitter, Modi wrote, “I have been getting many requests from […]
NEW DELHI — The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) labelled marriage between Muslims and non-Muslims as “regretful” and “unfortunate”. Saying that such marriages are banned as per the Sharia, acting general secretary of AIMPLB, Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani said that parents, guardians and representatives of mosques and madrassas across the nation must take […]