LAHORE — As Pakistan prepare to take their recent red-ball form following the Test series victory against England into the ODIs, the Green Shirts on Sunday announced their playing XI for the first 50-over clash against Australia set to be played at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on Monday (tomorrow). Mohammad Rizwan will be […]
NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a plea by the Delhi government challenging the Centre’s decision to vest in the LG the power to appoint government lawyers. A bench of justices Sanjiv Khanna and Sanjay Kumar is likely to hear the matter. In its plea before the top court, […]
NEW DELHI — External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday said friendships are “not exclusive”, particularly in a multi-polar world. In his address at a book launch here, the minister also said India is today positioning itself as a “Vishwa Mitra” and “we seek to be friends with as many as possible”. This obviously generates […]
ISLAMABAD — A total of 198 people were killed and 111 others injured in separate terrorist attacks in Pakistan during October, the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS), an Islamabad-based think tank said on Saturday. Despite a slight reduction in the overall number of militant attacks, the month emerged as the second deadliest […]
NEW DELHI (KIMS) — The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday appointed Mr. Sat Sharma as the President of its Jammu and Kashmir unit. The appointment was made by BJP’s National President, Mr. J. P. Nadda. He also appointed Mr. Ravinder Raina, the outgoing Jammu and Kashmir BJP President, as a member of the party’s […]
COLOMBO — As many as 191 persons, including six candidates, have been arrested so far in connection with complaints related to the 2024 parliamentary elections, police said on Saturday. Voting for Parliamentary polls in set to take place on November 14. Police said they have received 168 complaints related to the parliamentary elections. “It includes […]
JERUSALEM — The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Saturday that it had killed Jaafar Khader Faour, the commander overseeing Hezbollah’s missile and rocket operations in its Nasser unit. The IDF reported that Faour was targeted and killed in a precision airstrike by an Israeli Air Force fighter jet in the village of Jouaiyya in […]
GAZA — At least 42 Palestinians were killed and more than 150 injured in Israeli air and artillery bombardment on Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical sources said. The Israeli army has been bombarding inhabited houses in Nuseirat with both aircraft and artillery since Friday morning, said Palestinian security sources on […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — A top commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant group is among three militants killed, while four security personnel were also injured in two separate encounters in the Kashmir Valley on Saturday. The first encounter broke out between security forces and militants in the Khanyar area of Downtown Srinagar on Saturday morning after […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Choudhary Saturday said the ruling National Conference suffered the most due to terrorism and wants the menace to be rooted out to usher in peace in the region. Asked about the increased terror attacks after the formation of the NC-led government in Jammu and Kashmir on […]