Srinagar: Curfew-like restrictions continued for the fourth consecutive day Friday in Kupwara town of north Kashmir, while a complete shutdown was observed in rest of the Valley in response to the call given by Hurriyat Conference (G) over the killing of seven alleged militants in Lolab forests by Army last week. Here in the capital […]
Raipur: A Station House Officer (SHO) and six police jawans were Friday killed and two others injured, one of them critically, in a Naxal ambush in Maoist-hit Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh, police said. Naxals also torched vehicles of the police personnel and looted their weapons before fleeing the spot, they said. The incident took place […]
BY NIRUPAMA SUBRAMANIAN Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, the former President of Sri Lanka, has among her photographs a collector’s item taken when she was an 11-year-old girl. Crowded into the frame are no less than five South Asian Prime Ministers who served at different times over five decades in the 20th Century: her father S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, […]
Srinagar: A Junior Commissioned officer (JCO) committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle in central Kashmir’s Budgam district late Friday, reports said. JCO, Surinder Singh of 2 Rashtriya Rifles posted at Soibugh Army camp, shot himself with his service rifle, a local news agency GNS quoted sources as saying. “After hearing gunshot his […]
Srinagar: An Army trooper was among five persons arrested by police for stone pelting in Lolab, Kupwara on Friday, a local news agency said. “After Friday prayers, a group of youth was protesting near Radnag village against killing of seven alleged militants in Lalpora (last week). The protesters also hurled stones at forces deployed in […]
JAMMU: Abdul Rashid Malik, private secretary to additional DGP (Armed) was accorded a warm send off on Friday on his superannuation. In a statement, police spokesman described malik as “a highly decorated officer who rendered 34 years of unblemished and distinguished services in Jammu and Kashmir Police department in different capacities.” Malik hailing from Inder […]
New Delhi: Lt Gen PR Kumar will tomorrow take over as Director General Military Operations (DGMO) from Lt Gen Vinod Bhatia, who is retiring on Friday. “Lt Gen Kumar will take over as DGMO tomorrow from Lt Gen Vinod Bhatia who will retire today after a tenure of more than 18 months,” an Army release […]
Lalit K Jha Washington: A US Congress-mandated report on Friday said that abuses by police and security forces are the most significant human rights problems in India, but that the government had made “some progress” in cases seeking to punish officials for killings during the 2002 Gujarat riots. “The most significant human rights problems were […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front( JKLF) chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik and several of his party colleagues were Friday detained when they were preparing to hold a protest rally in the city against the Army’s decision to close the Pathribal case. Malik and his 12 colleagues were taken into preventive custody near Maisuma while they […]
New Delhi: Government on Friday cleared a proposal of the Election Commission to raise expenditure limits for Lok Sabha elections to a maximum of Rs 70 lakh and a minimum of Rs 54 lakh, allowing candidates to spend more on their poll campaigns. The Commission has proposed to raise expenditure limits for Assembly Elections, with […]