NEW DELHI: Pinning hopes on the good monsoon and recent reforms, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said economic growth will cross 5 per cent in the current financial year and accelerate further in the coming years. Addressing the Governors’ Conference here, Singh said the Indian economy, after many years of rapid growth, has slowed down […]
London: Senior PML-N leader Shahbaz Sharif has claimed that “security agencies” of Pakistan and India are blocking the normalisation of bilateral trade ties. “Distrustful” security agencies are one of the main “blockages” holding back plans to liberalise trade, said Shahbaz, the Punjab Chief Minister and brother of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. “Security agencies on both […]
SRINAGAR: Paying tributes to the militants killed in an encounter at Pinjoora Shopian in South Kashmir, Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani Friday said the militants are an “asset and pride” of the “nation”. “Our young generation has chosen the path of resistance instead of school and colleges, and despite limited resources they have […]
Srinagar: Body of a 25-year-old youth was recovered under suspicious circumstances in apple township of Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, police said Friday. Locals informed the police after they found a body in Bomia village, a police spokesman said, adding the deceased was later identified as Irshad Ahmad Bhat, a resident of Ishtengoo, Bandipora. […]
Srinagar: Dukhtaran-e-Milat chief Asiya Andrabi and her three colleagues were Friday detained by police here while carrying out an anti-Valentine’s day drive. Every year on Valentine’s Day, Dukhtaran activists visit restaurants and cafes in Srinagar city to chase away young couples. Abdrabi and her colleagues were taken into preventive custody by police team including female […]
NEW DELHI: Wholesale inflation eased to a seven-month low of 5.05 per cent in January, on decline in the rate of price rise in food articles, mainly vegetables. This is the second straight month of decline in wholesale price based inflation. The WPI was at 6.16 per cent in December. During January, inflation in food […]
SRINAGAR: Expressing their resentment over the statement by Minister for Urban Development Nawang Rigzin Jora wherein he had stated that hotels having more than 19 rooms needed to install their own STPs, the Valley hoteliers said the information given in the legislative assembly contradicts the government’s own decision to construct STPs in Srinagar and Jammu […]
BANDIPORA: A 15-days training course organized by Entrepreneurship Development Institute (EDI) concluded at Rural Self Employment Training Institute (RSETI), Bandipora. As many as 60 candidates were imparted the necessary training of dairy farming, sheep rearing, tour and travel management, readymade garments and other skills under SKEWPY, an official statement Friday said. The aim of the […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on a government official for accepting a bribe of Rs 265 from a contractor 29 years ago. Upholding the conviction of the employee V K Verma, a bench headed by Justice S J Mukhopadhaya, however, reduced his jail term of one and […]
BY APOORVANAND These are lonely times for scholarship in India. TheShiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti( SBAS) has claimed yet another scalp in the form of the withdrawal of Wendy Doniger’s book The Hindus: An Alternative History by its publishers Penguin, India. The author, while ‘angry and disappointed’ by this decision has said that she can understand the plight of her publishers who […]