NEW DELHI: World’s largest cycle maker Hero Cycles has launched a range of Disney- and Marvel-branded bicycles featuring characters like Mickey Mouse and Spiderman for kids aged 3-12 years. As part of the licensing agreement with Disney India’s Consumer Products arm, Hero Cycles will sell 12 models, priced between Rs 3,300 to Rs 4,500. These […]
BY ROBERT FISK Borders are becoming a bit odd in the Middle East. They always have been, of course. Ever since Mark Sykes and François Georges Picot – the latter a former French consul in Beirut, by the way, who cost a lot of brave Lebanese their lives by his carelessness in sealing their anti-Ottoman […]
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said that slapping of sedition charges against Kashmiri students in Meerut by Uttar Pradesh government for allegedly cheering Pakistan team during a cricket match that India lost was “unacceptably harsh punishment” and should be reversed. “I believe what the students did was wrong and misguided […]
BILAL HABIB SRINAGAR: A woman and her daughter were killed while her son was critically injured after they were hit by a vehicle on the outskirts of Srinagar, police said Thursday. It said a Tata Mobile (No. JK13B-4208) hit and injured 50-year-old Tasleema, wife of Manzoor Ahmad Ganaie, her 7-year-old daughter Sofia Jan and son […]
As per the Indian law, sedition is any form of speech, action, writing that incites hatred against the established order and harms the systematic peace of the country. Seditious words written against the ruling government and authority is called ‘seditious libel’. Indian Constitution’s chapter VI deals with offences against the state and sedition is charged […]
Srinagar: State Health Minister and senior Congress leader Taj Mohi-u-Din Thursday said that Kashmir can’t survive as an independent nation as it lack resources. Interacting with youth at a hotel in Srinagar, Taj said that Kashmir is completely “dependent on India and it not self-sufficient which could help it to survive as an independent nation.” […]
Srinagar: The expulsion of Kashmiri students and slapping of sedition charge against Kashmiri studying in Meerut drew widespread condemnation Thursday . Ruling National Conference (NC) expressed anger over the sedition charge, saying the students neither tried to bring down the government nor harm the national integrity. “Expulsion of the students and then registration of a […]
Snehesh Alex Philip Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday termed the slapping of sedition charges on 67 Kashmiri students in Uttar Pradesh for cheering the Pakistani cricket team as “very unfortunate” and said its “heart” and educational institutions are always open if they wanted to pursue their studies here. Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam said she knows […]
March 7, 2013 In the wake of a youth’s death in Baramulla after army men opened fire, authorities imposed curfew in many areas across the Valley. Curfew was imposed in Rainawari, Nowhatta, SR Gunj, Safa Kadal, Maisuma, Kralkhud and Zadibal police stations areas of Srinagar city. Curfew was also imposed in Baramulla, Sopore, Pulwama and […]
New Delhi: Expressing concern over slapping of sedition charge against Kashmiri students studying in Meerut, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Thursday said caution should have been taken by the Uttar Pradesh government before initiating the action. “This is a very very sensitive issue. There is peace in the state (Jammu and Kashmir) after a […]