Srinagar: Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik took up the cause of prisoners, including retired Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav jailed in Pakistan, in an open letter to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. In the letter released to the media here yesterday, he said that he was “touched” by Swaraj’s speech in Parliament […]
Srinagar: Violating its own rules, the Law Department in Jammu and Kashmir has ignored several officers, including a woman officer, for promotion from its Urdu translation wing for the second time in as many years. According to documents of the department, over 50 entry- level gazetted officers from its administrative section have been promoted to […]
New Delhi: Army Chief General Bipin Rawat today urged all army personnel to work with “added zeal” to preserve the core values of the force, including its “apolitical” character, while ensuring that it remains one of the most potent instruments of India’s national power. In a New Year message, Rawat also complimented the army for […]
Pulwama: Clashes erupted between government forces and protestors in Tahab village of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Sources said that youth hurled stones on a local CRPF camp, which was retaliated by tear smoke shells triggering clashes in the area. Meanwhile complete shutdown is observed in many parts of southern Kashmir to mourn the death of […]
Srinagar: An unidentified militant was killed in Lethpora Pulwama early Monday morning to cap the two-day gunfight between militants and government forces. In All eight persons were killed, five of them CRPF men and remaining three were ‘fidayeen (suicide) attackers”—two of whom have been identified as locals. As reported already, five paramilitary CRPF men and two Jash-e-Mohammad […]
Srinagar: Scores of industrial unit holders Monday held a protest demonstration against SRO 519 and SRO 521 recently passed by the state government, here in Press Colony Srinagar. The protesting unit holders said that the “discriminatory SROs” were passed in a hurry to benefit “a handful of outside investors” based in Jammu region. Consequently, Police […]
In line with the provisions of the Consular Access Agreement the two countries signed on May 21, 2008, Pakistan on Monday handed over a list of 457 Indian prisoners languishing in its jails to the Indian High Commission, reports said. The Indian government too will hand over a list of Pakistani prisoners to the Pakistan […]
Islamabad: National security advisors of India and Pakistan held a “secret” meeting in Thailand, a senior Pakistani official said today. A Pakistan’s national security division official, on the condition of anonymity, said the meeting between Pakistan’s National Security Advisor retired Lt Gen Nasser Khan Janjua and India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval took place on December […]
Tehran: New protests were held in Iran overnight, local media said today, despite President Hassan Rouhani calling for calm and vowing more “space for criticism” in a bid to head off days of unrest. Rouhani finally broke his silence last night about the protests that mark the biggest test for the regime since mass demonstrations […]
Srinagar: Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, ushered in the New Year under freezing conditions as the city recorded the coldest night of this winter with a minimum of minus 4.4 degrees Celsius. Srinagar city recorded the coldest night this season at minus 4.4 degrees Celsius, an official of the MET department said […]