Jammu: A senior police officer on Wednesday called for offensive operations to scuttle any possible militant attacks ahead of Independence Day. Additional Director General of Police (Jammu Zone) Mukesh Singh called for high-level alertness, strengthening of the border security grid and intensified checking, especially around the venue of the Independence Day function on August 15, […]
Jammu: BSF Director-General Nitin Agrawal on Wednesday visited various border outposts in Jammu’s Akhnoor sector and exhorted the troops to maintain effective domination to successfully meet the challenges from across the frontier. Agrawal was accompanied by the Border Security Force’s (BSF) Special Director General (Western Command) PV Rama Sastry and Inspector General (Jammu Frontier) DK […]
Banihal/Jammu: A massive landslide blocked the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Ramban district early Wednesday following which no fresh batch of Amarnath pilgrims was allowed to leave from Jammu, officials said. According to the traffic control room, the landslide hit the 270-km highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country, near […]
Jammu: An Army personnel drowned in a canal while taking a bath in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, police said. Kalki Sharma (24), a resident of Barwal village, was on leave, they said, adding he was posted in Srinagar. Sharma went for a bath in the canal at nearby Magar Khand but […]
Srinagar: Police on Wednesday claimed to have arrested two militant associates of JeM outfit in Central Kashmir’s Srinagar district. “Two(2) militant associates of JeM namely Arshad Mushtaq son of Mushtaq Mangroo of Badibagh Pulwama and Suhail Majeed Mir son of Abdul Majeed Mir of Machpuna Pulwama arrested by Srinagar Police,” police said in a tweet, […]
New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday alleged that Sansad TV focussed on its leader Rahul Gandhi for less than 40 per cent of the time he spoke in Lok Sabha on the no-confidence motion. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said Gandhi spoke for 37 minutes but was shown on Sansad TV camera for only 14 […]
New Delhi: The BJP on Wednesday commemorated the launch of the Quit India Movement by Mahatma Gandhi on this day in 1942 and called for riddance of dynasticism, corruption, and appeasement politics in an attack against the Congress and INDIA allies. Addressing a press conference at party headquarters here, BJP leader and former Union minister […]
Kolkata: Paying homage to Mahatma Gandhi on the anniversary of the Quit India movement launched by him, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said the ideas of harmony and humanity must be upheld for a strong India. The TMC supremo said the idea of India should not die. “Today, on the anniversary of […]
Chennai: Like there are multiple colours in a rainbow, India has different cultures, languages and film industries and it’s time for the world to acknowledge it, says A R Rahman, the artiste whose music covers genres and geographies. Rahman, who has worked in the south, in the Hindi film industry as well as Hollywood, Broadway […]
New Delhi: Supreme Court judge Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra on Wednesday recused himself from hearing a plea filed by former JNU student Umar Khalid seeking bail in a UAPA case related to alleged conspiracy behind the riots here in February 2020. Khalid’s petition challenging the October 18 last year order of the Delhi High Court, […]