Delhi HC allows Mehbooba to withdraw plea challenging PMLA provision

Delhi HC allows Mehbooba to withdraw plea challenging PMLA provision

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday permitted PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti to withdraw her petition challenging the constitutional validity of a provision of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). The lawyer appearing for the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister told a bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium […]

BJP asks admin to release salaries of KPs, Jammu employees serving in Valley

BJP asks admin to release salaries of KPs, Jammu employees serving in Valley

Jammu: Asserting that the heightened security scare of employees is not ill-founded, the BJP on Tuesday asked the Jammu and Kashmir administration to ensure fool-proof security to Kashmiri Pandit employees serving in the Valley. It also called for immediate release of salaries of Kashmiri Pandits and Jammu employees serving in the Kashmir Valley. The Kashmiri […]

Drone activity declines along border in Jammu: BSF

Drone activity declines along border in Jammu: BSF

Jammu: The Border Security Force (BSF) has foiled all cross-border infiltration attempts this year and the International Border in the Jammu frontier is incident free and safe, a senior official said. Drone activity has also largely decreased in Jammu and the majority of weapons and explosives dropped from unmanned aerial vehicles have also been recovered, […]

India-US military drills near LAC violate the spirit of Sino-India agreements: China

India-US military drills near LAC violate the spirit of Sino-India agreements: China

Beijing: China on Wednesday said it was opposed to the joint Indo-US military exercises being held near the Line of Actual Control (LAC), asserting that it violates the spirit of the two border agreements signed between New Delhi and Beijing. The 18th edition of the India-US joint military exercise ‘Yudh Abhyas’ is currently underway in […]

Bilkis Bano moves SC against remission to convicts, says premature release shook conscience of society

Bilkis Bano moves SC against remission to convicts, says premature release shook conscience of society

New Delhi: Bilkis Bano, who was gang-raped and seven members of her family slaughtered during the 2002 Gujarat riots, Wednesday moved the Supreme Court challenging the remission of sentence of 11 convicts in the case by the state government, saying their premature release has “shaken the conscience of society”. Besides the plea challenging the release […]

CBI files cases over manipulation of Accounts Assistant exam, searches 14 places

CBI files cases over manipulation of Accounts Assistant exam, searches 14 places

New Delhi: The CBI on Wednesday conducted searches at 14 locations in Jammu and Kashmir in connection with alleged irregularities in the Accounts Assistant recruitment examination conducted by the JKSSB, officials said. The agency has booked around 20 people, including members of the Jammu and Kashmir Services Selection Board (JKSSB), in connection with the alleged […]

Dy SP suspended over bribery charge in Jammu

Dy SP suspended over bribery charge in Jammu

Jammu: A deputy superintendent of police posted in the crime branch has been suspended after being caught by the Anti-Corruption Bureau while accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 more than two weeks ago, an official order issued on Wednesday said. Varinder Singh has been placed under suspension with effect from November 11, the date he […]

Huge cache of arms and explosives seized from militant hideout in Poonch: Police

Huge cache of arms and explosives seized from militant hideout in Poonch: Police

Poonch/Jammu: Security forces on Wednesday busted a terrorist hideout in Jammu and Kashmir’s border district of Poonch and recovered a large cache of arms and explosives, a police official said. The recoveries made from the hideout included two AK assault rifles, six magazines, 69 rounds, one pistol with a magazine and five hand grenades, the […]