JAMMU — Asserting that the lathi charge on the protesting daily wage employees of the Jal Shakti department should not have happened, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said he does not hold control over the police. As the House assembled for the day, opposition members highlighted the massive protests by the […]
JAMMU — BJP members staged a walkout from the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly on Tuesday after a war of words with NC MLAs over the detention and baton charge of protesting daily wage employees of the Jal Shakti department. Scores of Jal Shakti (PHE) department workers and daily wagers were baton-charged and detained on Monday […]
KARACHI — A huge fire triggered by a cylinder explosion in an eatery on Monday afternoon destroyed 150 shops of a timber market on Superhighway, officials said. They said that the fire rapidly spread from the restaurant to the nearby timber shops and engulfed the whole market near Maymar Mor. No one was hurt in […]
JAMMU — At least four people were killed and eight others injured early Tuesday when a tempo vehicle they were travelling in skidded off the road and rolled down into a deep gorge in Reasi district, officials said. A police official told GNS that the tempo vehicle from Jammu to Bagankote fell into a very […]
JAMMU — The Jammu and Kashmir Assembly witnessed noisy scenes on Tuesday as members cutting across party lines raised the issue of lathi charge and detention of protesting daily wage employees of the Jal Shakti department demanding release of wages and regularisation of jobs. As the House assembled for the day, BJP MLA Vikram Randhawa […]
SRINAGAR — The New Zealand on Tuesday announced squad for the upcoming five match T20I series against Pakistan, which is scheduled to play from 16 March. The team will be led by Michael Bracewell with Mitch Santner unavailable for home series, beginning in Christchurch on Sunday. A standout in New Zealand’s run to the Champions […]
WASHINGTON — Hours after a series of outages Monday that left X unavailable to thousands of users, Elon Musk claimed that the social media platform was being targeted in a “massive cyberattack.” “We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources,” Musk claimed in a post. “Either a large, coordinated […]
JAMMU — PDP MLA from Pulwama Waheed Para on Monday called for the reconstitution of the Human Rights Commission in the region to address human rights issues, particularly in the wake of the recent killings in Kathua district. Speaking during the Motion of Thanks in the assembly, Para criticised the government’s handling of law and […]
JAMMU — Two leaders of the National Conference were on Monday marshalled out of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly following their protest seeking to raise the issue of three youths missing Devsar constituency in Kulgam district. NC leader and MLA from Devsar constituency Peerzada Feroze Ahmad Shah raised the issue of the missing youths from […]
JAMMU — People’s Democratic Party leader Iltija Mufti on Monday criticised the police handling of the recent killing of three civilians in Kathua, including a 14-year-old boy and demanded an impartial probe into the incident. Mufti expressed concern that the police are not behaving neutrally, citing the fact that BJP leaders were allowed to visit […]