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FIR against Geelani, 3 aides? Delhi court to hear case on March 4

New Delhi: A Delhi court Wednesday fixed March 4 for pronouncing its order on a plea seeking lodging of an FIR against Hurriyat Conference...

‘Rare 9th century stone sculpture of Lord Shiva found’

Srinagar: Archaeologists have found a rare 9th century stone sculpture of Lord Shiva from a stream in Shopian district of south Kashmir, the government...

2 labourers killed due to rock slide

Srinagar: Two labourers died while three others were injured due to rock slide in Leh in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, police said...

National Alpine Snow Boarding Championship

JAMMU: Minister for Agriculture,Ghulam Hassan Mir has congratulated the J&K team especially Arif Khan and Mehraj-ud-Din Khan who won gold medals in the National...

Time has come to look beyond ‘defensive’ Dhoni: Amarnath

NEW DELHI: Former India cricketer Mohinder Amarnath says the time has come to remove Mahendra Singh Dhoni from captaincy as his "defensive approach" has...

Dhoni’s Test captaincy ‘obnoxious’, says Ganguly

New Delhi: Beleaguered skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni was put on notice by his predecessors on Wednesday after India suffered yet another away series defeat,...

McCullum’s epic innings stopped the nation, says Kiwi coach

WELLINGTON: New Zealand coach Mike Hesson on Wednesday said skipper Brendon McCullum’s epic triple hundred in the drawn Test against India brought the whole...

Asia Cup 2014: Hafeez hopeful for good results

LAHORE: Expressing satisfaction over the team selected for the upcoming Asia Cup, T20 captain Muhammad Hafeez said the national squad was in an excellent...

‘Sons-of-pigs’ remark by ex-chairman leaves PCB red-faced

NEW DELHI: A distasteful comment by its former chairman Ijaz Butt has left the Pakistan Cricket Board red-faced. According to media reports, Butt, apparently...

PCB forms committee to probe match fixing claims in domestic T20 match

LAHORE:Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has said it would investigate allegations of match fixing in a domestic Twenty20 match last week. Former batsman Basit Ali made...

Pollard ruled out of Windies World T20 squad

Saint John's (Antigua): Big hitting all-rounder Kieron Pollard has been ruled out of the West Indies squad for the ICC World Twenty20. Pollard continues to...

Clean Chit to Modi Reeks of Guilt

Manoj Mitta’s analysis exposes a regulated drift in the Gujarat investigation, which the Indian media has studiedly chosen to ignore, even when put down...

‘Indian’ Leopards

BY UZMA KHAN Animal societies are free, with no nationalities; they just belong to our very own planet Earth, while human society is limited by...

1999: Vajpayee Takes Bus to Lahore

The Indian Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, set out to Lahore by bus on February 20, 1999, inaugurating the four-times-a-week Delhi-Lahore-Delhi bus service.  The...

Regulate Stone-Crushers

In brazen violation of rules governing environmental protection in Jammu and Kashmir, over 600 stone crushing units in the State are breaching measures mandatory...

Saudi hopes Kashmir will be resolved according to UN resolutions

Islamabad: Saudi Arabia has welcomed positive developments in India-Pakistan relations, saying it would have a beneficial impact on the two neighbouring countries and stability...

Pak trucker sent to Central Jail

Baramulla: A trucker from Pakistan-administered Kashmir (PaK) who was arrested last month on charges of smuggling drugs worth Rs 100 crore into the Valley...

Kashmir issue a legacy from history, says China

Beijing: China on Tuesday said its position on Kashmir is “clear cut—the issue is a legacy issue from history,” as it brushed aside India’s...

Year after Afzal Guru’s hanging, SC commutes Rajiv Gandhi’s killers’ death penalty to life

New Delhi: A year after Mohammad Afzal Guru was secretly hanged and buried in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail, the Supreme Court of India on...

1990: State Assembly Dissolved

A proclamation was issued on February 19, 1990, exactly a month after the appointment of Jagmohan as the Governor of the state, to dissolve...

We Can’t Win the Election, So We’ll Buy One

BY JAWED NAQVI Strangely enough, a TV channel screened the 1960s Indian movie Leader the other day, which was a day after Arvind Kejriwal filed an unusually...

Ruled By Class Privilege and Manufactured Merit

BY PRAFUL BIDWAI ‘India makes a power point’, triumphantly announced a Times of India headline when Hyderabad-born Satya Nadella was named the CEO of the software giant...

Godhra Retold

BY AJAZ ASHRAF Once you complete reading Manoj Mitta’s breathtaking investigative book, The Fiction of Fact-Finding; Modi & Godhra, you are likely to wonder about the...

Walkouts in LA, LC over Dogri channel, refugees issue

Jammu: Opposition BJP and Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) legislators Tuesday  held protest in the Legislative Assembly and staged walkout demanding setting...

Press Club Jammu tops liquor consuming clubs

Jammu: Press Club Jammu (PCJ) has emerged as the highest liquor consuming club in Jammu and Kashmir as 11,167 bottles Indian Made Foreign Liquor...

PDP MLA marshalled out

Jammu: A People’s Democratic Party(PDP)  MLA was Tuesday marshalled out from Assembly over the disruption of proceedings by holding protests against the government's alleged...

Denial of right to protest condemnable: CPI (M)

Jammu: Castigating  the government for being “intolerant towards peaceful public protests,” state CPI (M) Tuesday said that it was denial of the basic democratic...

125 employees suspended for absence

Kishtwar: Coming down heavily on the practice of absenteeism in government offices, the Jammu and Kashmir government has suspended 125 employees of different departments...

SC VERDICT ON RAJIV KILLERS

New Delhi: With Supreme Court commuting the death sentence of three convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, National Conference  chief and Union Minister Farooq...

Guru deserved the same reprieve: Mehbooba

Jammu: Reacting to the Supreme Court's verdict, People's Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti said Afzal Guru deserved the same reprieve. "By commuting the death sentence...

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