Jammu: Pakistani Rangers targeted forward posts and villages with small arms firing along the International Border (IB) in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Saturday. The firing from across the border in Manyari-Chorgali area in Hiranagar sector was unprovoked and started around 7.30 pm on Friday and continued intermittently throughout the night, […]
United Nations: India has slammed Pakistan for raising the issue of Jammu and Kashmir at a forum of the UN, saying the country employs “empty rhetoric” to serve its “distorted agenda” and continues to engage in spreading unsubstantiated allegations. Minister in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN Deepak Misra did not name Pakistan but his […]
New Delhi: The Government of India has ruled out a separate flag and Constitution for the Nagas as demanded by the NSCN-IM, and made it clear that the endless negotiations with the insurgent group under the shadow of guns was not acceptable. Interlocutor for the Naga talks and Nagaland Governor R N Ravi also said […]
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti’s brother Tassaduq Hussain Mufti on Friday met her at the guest house where she has been kept under detention, party sources said. The meeting lasted for about 20 minutes, they said, without giving any further details. The former chief minister has been detained […]
New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday addressed top commanders of the Army and drew their attention to the likely use of unconventional weapons in the future, a statement said. Calling jointness as the operational necessity, Singh exhorted the Army to take lead towards achieving this. He reiterated the role of the Chief of […]
Srinagar: Gulmarg and other areas in the higher regions of Kashmir received snowfall on Friday and rains lashed the plains, plummeting the temperature across the valley, a meteorological department official said. The high altitude areas of Kashmir, including the higher regions of the skiing resort Gulmarg in Baramulla district in the north, received snowfall that […]
Art 370 dominates poll campaign
Ellenabad: On the last day of campaigning for the Haryana assembly polls here, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sharpened his attack on the opposition Congress over issues of Article 370 and the Kartarpur corridor, accusing it of “destroying the country” with wrong policies and strategy. Raising the issue of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir […]
Jammu: The Congress on Friday questioned the ‘delay’ in issuing the notification abolishing the Legislative Council under the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, citing reports that constituency development fund was allegedly released partly in violation of law to “please BJP members”. The 62-year-old state Legislative Council came to an end with the state administration issuing […]
NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday attacked the government over the alleged decline in population of indigenous cattle, saying the government’s love for cow is only on paper. The former finance minister also hit out at the government over what he said was an “acute” job crisis. In a tweet posted by […]
Restrictions imposed to thwart protests
Srinagar: Friday prayers were not allowed at Jamia Masjid, the grand mosque of Kashmir in downtown (old city area), for eleventh straight week, while authorities imposed fresh restrictions in parts of the city on Friday in view of congregational prayers. Official said curbs were imposed in Anchar area under the jurisdiction of police station Soura […]