Islamabad, Pakistan’s ruling coalition government is expected to file a petition in the Supreme Court on Monday for the formation of a full court bench to hear cases related to the interpretation of the Article 63-A of the Constitution and the contentious re-election of Hamza Shehbaz as the chief minister of Punjab province. Article 63-A […]
Banihal/Jammu: The death toll in the accident in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district has gone up to six, with two more people succumbing to their injuries in the hospital, officials said on Monday. Naseema Begum, 42, and Naza Begum, 45, had sustained serious injuries and they died in hospitals in Srinagar, the officials said. Two […]
Jammu: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday asked leaders of the Jammu and Kashmir BJP to get ready for assembly elections in the Union territory, party sources said. Singh said this while holding a meeting with J&K BJP leaders here to discuss a host of issues, including the political situation in the UT, ahead of […]
Banihal/Jammu: Four people died and as many were injured in Ramban district on Sunday when the vehicle they were travelling in skidded off a road and rolled down a gorge, officials said. The accident took place on a link road in the Higni-Badarkoot belt, they said, adding that the injured have been hospitalised. The dead […]
Srinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday accused the Jammu and Kashmir administration of forcing people to buy the national flag for the Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign while asserting that patriotism comes naturally and cannot be imposed. The campaign has been launched to encourage the citizens to hoist the national flag in their homes from […]
Istanbul: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday criticized Greece for allegedly violating a settlement that has governed relations between the rivals for nearly a century. In a statement released on the 99th anniversary of the Lausanne Treaty, Erdogan accused Athens of undermining the rights of the Muslim minority in Greece’s Thrace region. Muslims in […]
Dhaka: The Pakistan High Commission here on Sunday removed the controversial cover photo from its Facebook page that used an alleged “distorted” image of Bangladesh’s national flag, following Dhaka’s strong objection. The High Commission had recently uploaded a collage of Pakistan’s and Bangladesh’s national flags as the cover photo of its official Facebook page. The […]
BEIJING: China launched on Sunday the second of three modules needed to complete its new space station, state media reported, the latest step in Beijing’s ambitious space programme. The uncrewed craft, named Wentian, was propelled by a Long March 5B rocket at 2:22 pm (0622 GMT) from the Wenchang launch centre on China’s tropical island […]
JAKARTA: The Chinese military has become significantly more aggressive and dangerous over the past five years, the top US military officer said during a trip to the Indo-Pacific that included a stop Sunday in Indonesia. Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the number of intercepts by Chinese aircraft and ships […]
KYIV: Russian defence ministry officials on Sunday insisted that an airstrike on the port of Odesa — less than a day after Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement on resuming grain shipments from there — had hit only military targets. “In the seaport in the city of Odesa, on the territory of a shipyard, sea-based […]