NEW DELHI — The Delhi Prisons Department has suspended 28 jail officials after they were found to be complicit with Unitech’s imprisoned ex-promoters Ajay Chandra and Sanjay Chandra, officials said on Thursday. According to a senior jail official, 28 officials of Tihar Jail number 7 have been suspended while the services of two contractual employees […]
SRINAGAR — High Court of J&K and Ladakh Wednesday quashed a criminal complaint filed by PDP senior leader and former minister Naeem Akhtar against the Editor-in-Chief of Republic TV, Arnab Goswami. Scrapping the criminal proceeding against Goswami, a bench of Justice Sanjay Dhar said issuing a process in a criminal complaint against an accused is […]
BEIJING — China on Wednesday objected to the recent visit of Vice President Venkaiah Naidu to Arunachal Pradesh, saying that it is firmly opposed to the Indian leader’s visit to the state as it has never recognised it. Naidu visited Arunachal Pradesh on October 9 and addressed a special session of the state assembly during […]
COPENHAGEN (Denmark) — A man armed with a bow fired arrows at shoppers in a small Norwegian town Wednesday, killing five people before he was arrested, authorities said. The police chief in the community of Kongsberg, near the capital of Oslo, said there was “a confrontation” between officers and the assailant, but he did not […]
SRINAGAR — Two journalists have been detained in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district by the Jammu and Kashmir police in the last week for “questioning”. Both continue to be in detention – one among them for the past five days. Salman Shah, 30, editor of an online weekly magazine – Kashmir First and 21-year-old Suhail Dar, a freelance […]
ANANTNAG — In continuation by taking an initiative to eradicate drug menace from the society, Army’s 19 Rashtriya Rifles organised free drug Kashmir campaign and Indian Army 19 Rashtriya Rifles Kokernag COB organised drug de addition seminar in collaboration with Government Degree College Kokernag in Anantnag district of south Kashmir on Wednesday. The aim of […]
SRINAGAR — Cyber Police Kashmir on Wednesday claimed to have busted a KYC (Know Your Customer) gang by arresting two men hailing from south Kashmir’s Anantnag district from a rented accommodation at New Theed Harwan area of Srinagar for defrauding people through fake calls and messages. A Cyber Police official identified the accused duo as […]
SRINAGAR — The Crime Branch Kashmir has arrested a Senior Assistant in Learned Advocate General J&K office in a fake recruitment scam. Crime Branch in a statement said it has arrested one accused Mohammad Yaqoob Bhat son of Ghulam Ahmad Bhat resident of Budgam in connection with case FIR No. 56 of 2021 U/S 420 […]
NEW DELHI — Voicing concern over the recent killing of civilians, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said “everyone is feeling unsafe”, and asked the administration to give the people a sense of security cutting across religions. Pointing out that attacks in the Union Territory this year had claimed the lives […]
SRINAGAR — Anjuman Auqaf Jamia Masjid Srinagar Wednesday said that the mandatory congregational prayers will be offered at historic Jamia Masjid on coming Friday. According to a statement, Anjuman informed that while all mosques, shrines, imambaras including Dargah Hazratbal have opened for prayers in view of the ongoing holy month of Rabi-ul-Awwal and diminishing graph […]