Jammu: A shutdown was observed in Rajouri town on Friday to protest the attack on a BJP leader’s house last night that left a three-year-old boy dead and six other people injured. Scores of people, some of them BJP workers, also took out a protest rally denouncing the attack. They raised anti-Pakistan slogans. Seven members […]
Jammu: A three-year-old child succumbed to injuries he sustained after militants lobbed a grenade on the residence of a BJP leader in Rajouri, officials said Friday. Veer was among the seven members of BJP leader Jasbir Singh’s family who were injured in the attack on his house in Khandli area of the district last night, […]
Srinagar: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Friday condemned the attack on a BJP leader’s house in Rajouri district which left a three-year-old child dead, and said the perpetrators of the heinous act will be brought to justice soon. “My deepest condolences to family & prayers for early recovery of injured. Perpetrators of this heinous act […]
Srinagar: Security has been beefed up in Kashmir ahead of the Independence Day celebrations as the forces are resorting to technical surveillance including the use of drones to monitor the situation, officials said on Friday. Police and paramilitary forces have been deployed in strength at many places in the city and elsewhere in the Valley […]
New Delhi: “Corrupt local police officers” were suspected to have scouted the Pathankot airbase before the terror attack at the IAF facility in 2016 and one of them identified a no-surveillance spot which was used by the raiders to heave ammunition, grenades, mortars, and AK-47s, a new book has claimed. This claim has been made […]
Kabul: The Taliban have captured another three provincial capitals in southern Afghanistan, including in Helmand, the scene of some of the heaviest fighting in the past two decades, as the insurgents press a lightning offensive that is gradually encircling the capital, Kabul. The loss of Helmand’s provincial capital comes after years of toil and blood […]
Kabul: An Afghan official says the Taliban have captured the provincial capital of the western province of Ghor. The head of the provincial council says the city of Feroz Koh fell to the insurgents on Friday. The lightning advance by the Taliban comes weeks before the U.S. is set to withdraw its last remaining forces. […]
United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is following with deep concern the developments in Afghanistan and hopes that the discussions between the Afghan government and the Taliban in Doha will restore the pathway to a negotiated settlement to the conflict, his spokesman has said. The Taliban is rapidly advancing across Afghanistan and taking control over […]
GANDHINAGAR: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched the National Automobile Scrappage Policy and said the initiative will promote a circular economy and make the process of economic development more sustainable and environment-friendly. The policy, aimed at recycling old and unfit vehicles, will give new identity to India’s mobility and auto sector, Modi said in […]
NEW DELHI: India saw a single-day rise of 40,120 coronavirus infections, taking the tally of cases to 3,21,17,826, while the recovery rate rose to 97.46 per cent, the highest recorded so far, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Friday. The death toll, meanwhile, climbed to 4,30,254 with 585 new fatalities, the data updated […]