Pulwama: Despite restrictions imposed by authorities, thousands of people on Saturday participated in funeral prayers of slain militant killed by forces in an encounter at Kangan in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Friday evening. As per locals, strict restrictions were imposed in district Pulwama to thawrt protests. They said that all the entry and […]
Jammu: Days after Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti visited the home of a man killed in police firing, the Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party today protested here accusing the state government of placating “anti-nationals”. JKNPP chairman Harsh Dev Singh led a group of party workers during the protest at Exhibition Ground and criticised the PDP-BJP […]
Ottawa: A bus carrying a group of Canadian junior hockey players has collided with a semi-trailer on a rural highway in Saskatchewan, killing 14 people, Canadian media reported citing police. Fourteen more were injured — including three critically — in the accident involving the Humboldt Broncos team bus, which was heading north for a Saskatchewan […]
Jodhpur: Actor Salman Khan was today granted bail by a district and sessions court here in the 1998 black buck poaching case in which he has been sentenced to five years in jail. District and Sessions Judge Ravindra Kumar Joshi allowed Khan’s plea for bail and suspension of sentence so that he can file an […]
Jammu: A 60-year-old pilgrim from Maharashtra died today apparently from cardiac arrest when he was on his way to the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine in Jammu and Kashmir, police said. Guru Nath fell unconscious near the Bhawan (temple) early today after covering a distance of 13.5 km from the base camp at Katra, a police […]
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Srinagar: Police on Saturday claimed to have arrested two persons for their alleged involvement in extremist activities and ‘terror’ funding. “In a case for involvement in terror activities and terror funding 02 persons namely Rafiq Ahmad Dar R/o Awantipora and Abid Majeed R/o Awantipora have been arrested in case FIR No. 50/2018 of Police Station […]
New Delhi: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi today hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, alleging that his friends raced to find strategic partners after the government re-tendered USD 15 billion fighter jet deal. He was citing a media report in this regard which stated that India was seeking over 100 new fighter jets in the […]
Sydney: A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck a remote part of Papua New Guinea today, US seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage. The quake struck at a depth of 10 kilometres some 195 kilometres west of the town of Mount Hagen, the US Geological Survey said. Much of the Pacific nation is […]
NEW YORK: Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations Maleeha Lodhi on Friday said Pakistan was the voice of the people of occupied Jammu and Kashmir in the United Nations. Speaking at a gathering of Kashmiri and Pakistani diaspora in New York the ambassador said Pakistan was fighting the case of Kashmiri people at the international […]