Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party president Altaf Bukhari said Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha promised a party delegation on Sunday that he would take up its statehood restoration demand with Prime Minister Narendra Modi this week. The Apni Party delegation called on the lieutenant governor at the Raj Bhavan here and raised issues such as […]
New Delhi: Slogans of Make Rahul Gandhi INC president” rent the air on Sunday as thousands of Congress supporters reached the Ramlila Maidan here to raise their voice against price rise and unemployment. Many party workers, who came to attend the ‘Mehangai Par Halla Bol’ rally, put up banners demanding Rahul to once again lead […]
Jammu: Several landslides on Sunday blocked the 270-km Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Ramban district as heavy rains lashed wide parts of Jammu province overnight, officials said. Landslides and shooting of stones from hillocks overlooking the strategic highway at Cafeteria and Mehad forced the suspension of vehicular traffic, the officials said. The fresh landslides were triggered […]
Jammu: The newly introduced bicycle-sharing system by Jammu Smart City Limited (JSCL) here has recorded 1.55 lakh rides by nearly 13,000 users in the first four months of launching, an official said on Sunday. JSCL, a special purpose vehicle (SPV) constituted in August 2017 by the Jammu and Kashmir government as part of its smart […]
Srinagar: Security forces have recovered sticky bombs or magnetic IEDs from a hybrid militant in Sopore township of Baramulla district, police said on Sunday. The militant, identified as Saqib Shakeel Dar, was arrested Saturday evening. Speaking to reporters in Sopore, in north Kashmir, SP Sopore, Shabir Nawab, said the security forces laid a naka on […]
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir is the land of divine and wisdom, and the energy field of science and spirituality and all must collectively work to spread nobility and contribute to nation building, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said Sunday. He attended the ‘Ekadash Samman Samaroh’ of Shrimad Jagadguru Sharda Sarvagya Peetham and Hindi Kashmiri Sangam at […]
New Delhi: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board has expressed concern over alleged targeting of madrassas by the BJP-led central and state governments and asked why same rules do not apply for other religious institutions such as mutts, gurukuls and dharmshalas. In a statement, AIMPLB general secretary Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani alleged that the […]
Mumbai: The untimely death of former Tata Sons chairperson Cyrus Mistry in a road accident in Maharashtra’s Palghar district has brought to fore his long-drawn legal feud with the Tata Group and Ratan Tata. Following his ouster as the chairman of the Tata Sons on October 24, 2016, Mistry was embroiled in a protracted legal […]
Mumbai: Former Tata Sons chairperson Cyrus Mistry, the low-profile, almost reclusive industrialist who was replaced in a boardroom coup in 2016, was killed on Sunday when his luxury car hit a road divider in Maharashtra’s Palghar district. He was 54. Besides Mistry, one person travelling with him in the Mercedes was killed, police said. The […]
Mumbai: A well-known gynecologist in Mumbai was driving the car which crashed on a road divider on Sunday, killing former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry and another occupant of the vehicle, police said. Primary information suggests that the car was over speeding and tried to overtake another vehicle from the wrong side (from the left), […]