Jammu: Police on Tuesday said one of the two militants killed in an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district last week had travelled to Pakistan on a valid Indian passport in February 2018. Two militants belonging to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were killed in a gunbattle with security forces in Rajouri district on Friday. “One of […]
New Delhi: More than 5,800 security personnel have been killed in Jammu and Kashmir since the inception of militancy there in 1989, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said Jammu and Kashmir has been affected by militant violence that is sponsored and supported from across the border. […]
Jammu: Two persons were arrested on the charge of militant funding in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district after Rs 25.81 lakh was recovered from them, officials said on Tuesday. On a specific information, a police team along with Army personnel raided several locations in Kanga Bhrooti village near the Line of Control on Tuesday and […]
New Delhi: Only two persons from outside Jammu and Kashmir have purchased properties in J&K since August 2019 when Article 370 was abrogated ending the special status given to the erstwhile state, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai’s written reply came in response to a question on […]
Srinagar: Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday called for restoration of Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood before assembly elections are held and batted for land and job rights for its residents. Speaking to reporters outside the Kheer Bhawani temple complex in Tullamulla area of central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district, Azad said Kashmiri Pandits who left […]
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday took exception to parallel debates on social media and websites by some petitioners, who have filed pleas seeking an independent probe into the alleged Pegasus snooping matter, and said they should observe discipline. A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana said the apex court is not […]
NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday strongly advised all its citizens residing in Afghanistan to make immediate travel arrangements to return home before commercial air services are discontinued from the country in view of massive spike in violence. In a fresh advisory, the Indian embassy in Kabul also advised the Indian companies operating in Afghanistan to […]
NEW DELHI: The Census 2021 exercise, when carried out, will enumerate only those SCs and STs that were notified through the constitutional orders of 1950, the government informed Parliament on Tuesday. Union Minister Nityanand Rai said this in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha on whether the government is planning to […]
Mumbai: Concerned over the inconvenience caused to the public due to the non-availability of cash in ATMs, the Reserve Bank has decided to penalise banks for failure to timely replenish currency notes in such machines. The RBI will start imposing penalty on banks in case the ATMs remain out-of-cash for a total period of 10 […]
New Delhi: The CBI has arrested nine people for alleged swindling of over Rs 100 crore term deposits of Chennai Port Trust (CPT) in Indian Bank by foreclosing them, officials said Tuesday. The agency had started the probe on July 31, 2020, against officials of the bank, private persons and other unidentified people on the […]