Washington: As the United States prepares to withdraw its soldiers from Afghanistan, President Joe Biden on Friday said his country’s partnership with the South Asian nation is going to be sustained. “The partnership between Afghanistan and the United States is not ending. It’s going to be sustained,” Biden told reporters in the Oval Office […]
Srinagar: Militants targeted a police station in Anantnag district on Friday, lobbing a grenade at it but the explosion did not cause any damage, police said. At about 8.45 pm, militants hurled a grenade towards Police station Bijbehara in the south Kashmir district, a police official said. He said the grenade exploded near the police […]
Srinagar: An infiltration bid was foiled along the Line of Control (LoC) in Kupwara district on Friday, officials said. Security forces foiled the infiltration bid in Tangdhar area, the officials said. Some arms and ammunition were left behind by the infiltrators. The recovery includes an AK-47 rifle, a pistol, two hand grenades and six packets […]
Srinagar: The number of Pakistani militants active in Kashmir has been dropping over the years due to several reasons like militancy financing watchdog FATF’s pressure on Islamabad and these militants keeping a distance and working only as advisors, a senior Army officer said on Friday. He said the neighbouring country’s attempt to project the situation […]
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Friday said it is bizarre that the government wants to hold elections in Jammu and Kashmir first and grant statehood later. He said the Congress and other parties in Jammu and Kashmir want statehood first and the elections later. “Congress and other J&K parties and leaders want […]
New Delhi: Describing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with top political leaders from Jammu and Kashmir as a “very positive step”, veteran Congress leader and former J&K governor Karan Singh on Friday said statehood must be restored before holding assembly polls there and asserted that such a move would go a long way in helping […]
New Delhi: India and China on Friday agreed to maintain dialogue and communication to reach a mutually acceptable solution for complete disengagement in all friction points along the Line of Actual Control(LAC) in eastern Ladakh to enable progress in the overall bilateral ties. The two countries agreed to this as they held another round of […]
New Delhi: Forty-eight coronavirus cases of ‘Delta Plus’ variant have been detected from 45,000 samples sequenced so far in the country, with Maharashtra reporting the highest number of such cases at 20, the Centre said on Friday. It said nine cases of Delta Plus variant were found in Tamil Nadu, seven cases in Madhya Pradesh, […]
New Delhi: On the 46th anniversary of the imposition of the Emergency, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said those “dark days” can never be forgotten and called for taking a pledge to strengthen India’s democratic spirit and live up to the values enshrined in the Constitution. “This is how Congress trampled over our democratic […]
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday asked the government why “large-scale testing is not being done” to check and prevent the spread of the Delta plus variant of coronavirus and how effective are the vaccines against it. Many experts feel that the Delta plus variant, which has been declared as a ‘variant of […]