ED summons Farooq Abdullah in money laundering case

ED summons Farooq Abdullah in money laundering case

Summons are common for all opposition parties in India: NC New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Lok Sabha MP Farooq Abdullah on May 31 at its Srinagar office in connection with a money laundering case linked to alleged financial irregularities in the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association, officials said on Friday. Abdullah (84), a […]

CBI court summons Rubaiya Sayeed in her abduction case

CBI court summons Rubaiya Sayeed in her abduction case

Jammu: A special CBI court here has summoned Rubaiya Sayeed, daughter of former chief minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, on July 15 in a case related to her kidnapping in 1989, officials said on Friday. This is the first time Rubaiya Sayeed has been asked to appear in the case relating to her abduction on December […]

Atmosphere of fear prevails in Kashmir: Omar

Atmosphere of fear prevails in Kashmir: Omar

Srinagar: National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Friday said tourist arrivals in Jammu and Kashmir should not be linked with normalcy as there is an atmosphere of fear in which no one is certain about his future. He said the government should be asked how the situation has come to a point where militancy has […]

Shocked none from admin visited slain TV artist’s home: Mehbooba

Shocked none from admin visited slain TV artist’s home: Mehbooba

Srinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Friday said she is shocked that no one from the administration has visited the family of television artist Amreen Bhat, who was shot dead by militants in Budgam district on Wednesday. “Visited Ambreen Bhat’s family. Shocked to know that no one from LG admin has bothered to visit them. […]

Poor suffered due to indifference towards tech use in governance before 2014: PM Modi

Poor suffered due to indifference towards tech use in governance before 2014: PM Modi

New Delhi: There was an environment of “indifference” towards the use of technology in governance before 2014 due to which the poor and the middle class suffered the most, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday. He asserted the current government has ensured last-mile delivery of services with the help of technology, including drones. Addressing […]

NIA court awards ISIS terrorist 7-year jail term for radicalising youth in Maharashtra

NIA court awards ISIS terrorist 7-year jail term for radicalising youth in Maharashtra

Mumbai: A special NIA court here has sentenced an ISIS terrorist to seven years imprisonment for a conspiracy hatched in Syria for radicalising Indian youth through internet wherein they were instructed to fabricate an IED locally. Mohammed Shahed Khan, a resident of Parbhani in Maharashtra, was handed down a seven years rigorous imprisonment and a […]

Russia squeezes Ukrainian strongholds in east

Russia squeezes Ukrainian strongholds in east

Kyiv: Russian forces on Friday pounded the last Ukrainian strongholds in a separatist-controlled eastern province of Ukraine, including a city where authorities said 1,500 people have been killed and 60 per cent of residential buildings destroyed since the start of the war. Ukraine’s foreign minister warned that without a new injection of foreign weapons, Ukrainian […]

China criticizes US as tensions rise in South Pacific

China criticizes US as tensions rise in South Pacific

Beijing: China on Friday criticised a speech by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that focused on relations between the world’s top two economic powers, saying the US was seeking to smear Beijing’s reputation. In his Thursday address, Blinken said the administration of President Joe Biden wants to lead the international bloc opposed to Russia’s […]

No deal with Pakistan’s establishment; decided to end march to avoid bloodshed: ex-PM Imran Khan

Peshawar: Pakistan’s ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday dismissed reports that he struck a deal with the Pakistan Army to end his massive Azadi rally demanding fresh general elections, asserting that he had decided to end his march to avoid bloodshed. A defiant Khan on Thursday warned that he would return to the Pakistani […]