SRINAGAR — The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has summoned 40 teachers on Sunday in connection with civilian target killings here, the investigation of which the agency has formally taken over from the local police. Top officials of the IB, including Tapan Deka, the head of counter terrorism wing in the agency are camping in Srinagar […]
SRINAGAR — National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday raided multiple locations in Jammu and Kashmir in two different cases already registered by the probing agency. Reliable sources told that sleuths of NIA along with CRPF raided the house of Nayeem Ahmad Bhat, a resident of Aaripora Zewan who is working as driver in Hassan Road […]
SRINAGAR — Supreme Court Judge, Justice S. Ravindra Bhat today inaugurated the Fourth Round Table Conference on ‘Implementation of Juvenile System’ in the Union Territories of J&K & Ladakh here at SKICC. The conference was organized by Juvenile Justice Committee, Supreme Court of India, Juvenile Justice Committee High Court of J&K and Ladakh in collaboration […]
NEW DELHI — After impressing one and all with his speed, Jammu and Kashmir pacer Umran Malik has now been chosen as Team India’s net bowler for the upcoming T20 World Cup. Malik had recently played for the SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 and he also ended up recording the […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir Services Selection Board (JKSSB) under Accelerated Recruitment Drive today notified revised merit list of candidates for district, divisional and Union Territory cadre posts of Class IV advertised vide advertisement notification number 01 of 2020 dated 26.06.2020. According to a communiqué issued here by JKSSB in this regard, the revised […]
LAHORE — Pakistan”s Sohaib Maqsood was on Saturday ruled out of the upcoming T20 World Cup owing to a lower back injury and replaced by veteran all-rounder Shoaib Malik. Maqsood was ruled out of the tournament after failing an MRI scan on his lower back. Maqsood, who was in the 15-member squad, sustained the injury […]
NEW DELHI — A batch of 106 Afghan nationals left Delhi for their country via Iran yesterday. Mahan Air recently resumed commercial flights to Kabul. Afghan nationals took the connecting flight of the Iran based airline to Kabul. This is the first set of Afghan nationals leaving for Afghanistan from Delhi since August 15, the […]
SRINAGAR — PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday said the situation in Jammu and Kashmir has gone from bad to worse and accused the Centre of using a “muscular policy” to reap political dividends. Mufti claimed she has been placed under house arrest to prevent her from visiting the family of a Muslim man who […]
KABUL — United Nations Security General Antonio Guterres has condemned the horrific attack at a Shia mosque in the Afghan city of Kunduz, saying that the attacks targeting civilians, who are exercising the right to freely practice their religion, are violations of fundamental human rights. Guterres, in a statement released by his spokesperson, said, “The […]
NEW DELHI — Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on Saturday demanded the Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra be sacked and sent to jail. Tikait added that a free and fair investigation in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case is not possible while Ajay Mishra, whose son Ashish Mishra is the prime […]