Narendra Modi presides over “mass murder” of Muslims, BJP then talks of apology: Mulayam Singh Yadav

ALLAHABAD: Escalating his attack on Narendra Modi, SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav today alleged he presided over “mass murder” of Muslims during 2002 Gujarat riots and then took on BJP for trying to hoodwink them by talking of apology to gain their votes. Mulayam also dismissed as “baseless propaganda” the Gujarat Chief Minister’s development claims […]

Kashmiri people fighting occupation, says Shabir Dar

SRINAGAR: Muslim Conference chairman Shabir Ahmed Dar Sunday said that Kashmiri people were fighting “foreign occupation for last seven decades.” “People are being subjected to worst kind of human sufferings at the hands of Indian forces which are hell bent to subjugate Kashmiris,” Dar said in a statement. He accused India of “using its seven […]

CCA holds elections

Srinagar: Coaching Centres Association (CCA) of Kashmir Sunday held elections and elected GN Var as its chairman. In a statement, the CCA said that the elections were held in accordance with the minutes of meeting held with Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Deputy Commissioner Srinagar and Director Education last month. “The elections were held on the eve […]

INDO-PAK NUCLEAR CBMS

BY ALI AHMED A new study ‘Nuclear Famine: Two Billion People at Risk?’ conducted by the Nobel Prize-winning International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War along with Physicians for Social Responsibility, says that even a ‘limited’ nuclear war using a 100 weapons would disrupt global climate and agricultural production so severely that the lives of more […]

DoT to allocate spectrum to winning companies by May

NEW DELHI: The Department of Telecom will take about 2 months to allocate 1800 Mhz band spectrum won by companies in the February auction. “1800 Megahertz spectrum should be allocated in about two months from the date companies make payment,” Telecom Secretary MF Farooqui told PTI. Airtel, Vodafone, Idea Cellular, Reliance Jio Infocomm, Aircel, Reliance […]

Mother Tongue

BY JO LATEU Whatever your memories of your school days – and let’s face it, for most of us, they were not ‘the best years of our lives’, whatever our parents claimed – the chances are you were taught in your mother tongue. Or at least, you were if you are a privileged Westerner who […]