Kyiv: A team of international nuclear inspectors was heading on Wednesday to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant caught in the middle of the fighting in southern Ukraine amid international concern of a potential accident or radiation leak. Rafael Grossi, the head of the the International Atomic Energy Agency, said he hoped to establish a permanent […]
Amritsar/Chandigarh: Four masked men allegedly vandalised a church in a village close to the Indo-Pak border in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district, police said on Wednesday. The incident occurred in Takkarpura village of Patti town on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday, they said. Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann strongly condemned the incident and ordered a […]
Guwahati: A madrassa in Assam’s Bongaigaon district was demolished by authorities on Wednesday for allegedly carrying out ‘jihadi’ activities on its premises, a police officer said. A teacher of the madrassa was arrested last week for his suspected links with terror outfits – Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent and Ansarul Bangla Team. Around a dozen […]
New Delhi: A verbal spat broke out between BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia and AAP MLA Saurabh Bhardwaj on Wednesday over the Delhi government’s education model. Bhatia said he visited a Delhi government-run school in Greater Kailash on being asked to do so by the AAP MLA. He alleged that Bhardwaj “failed to provide the list” […]
Anantnag: Three militants affiliated with Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) were killed in a gunfight with government forces Tuesday evening, here in Shopian district in south Kashmir, the police said. The slain militants were yet to be identified when this report was filed. A police source, however, said that the militants are believed to have been local residents. […]
Jammu: As many as 64 senior Congress leaders, including former deputy chief minister Tara Chand, resigned from the party in support of Ghulam Nabi Azad here on Tuesday, asserting that Azad’s vision will shape a new and bright future for Jammu and Kashmir. They submitted a joint resignation letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Chand […]
Jammu: Ruling out alliance with the BJP in the run up to the next assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, former deputy chief minister Tara Chand on Tuesday said the Ghulam Nabi Azad-led party would try to bring secular parties on a single platform for restoration of the statehood and the rights under Article 370. […]
Jammu: Ghulam Nabi Azad, who has decided to float a new political party in J&K, will hold a public meeting on September 4 at Sainik Colony in Jammu, his first since he snapped his nearly 50-year-long association with the Congress. The public meeting is scheduled for 11 am. KR Desk
New Delhi: Senior Congress leaders and members of G-23 Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Anand Sharma and Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday met Ghulam Nabi Azad at his residence, days after the leader from Jammu and Kashmir resigned from the party after blaming the leadership. Sharma, Hooda and Chavan held discussions at Azad’s residence and are learnt to […]
Jammu: The Congress on Tuesday called Gulam Nabi Azad a “selfish person” and said he left the party when he was tasked to render his services in Jammu and Kashmir. It said Azad forgot the favours done to him by the party leadership by giving him important responsibilities in the past 50 years. “A sadhu […]