Srinagar: A fire broke out in a police building, causing extensive damage to the structure in Kupwara district of north Kashmir today. The fire broke out in the police building at Warnow in Kuligam Police Station area apparently after leakage in a cooking gas, police said. No one was injured in the incident, they said. […]
Jammu: As many as 61 gazetted officers have been prosecuted in the last three years in Jammu and Kashmir, the state government said Tuesday. In a written reply to a question of a Congress member, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah informed the Legislative Council that 61 gazetted officers, who have served or are serving in different […]
BY PRAFUL BIDWAI Ever since Ahmedabad magistrate BJ Ganatra rejected Zakia Jafri’s petition in the Gujarat carnage case in December and held that Chief Minister Narendra Modi was not part of the “larger conspiracy” behind the butchery of nearly 2,000 Muslims in 2002, the Sangh Parivar has run a triumphalist campaign, and tried to turn […]
JAMMU: Former bureaucrat and Congress leader Farooq Renzu called on Governor N N Vohra here at Raj Bhavan Tuesday. According to an official spokesman, Renzu briefed the Governor about “his latest initiatives in the literary, spiritual, historical and cultural arenas and also informed him about the social and political developments in the society.” Appreciating Renzu’s […]
Jammu: Independent MLA was Tuesday marshalled out of the Assembly for disrupting proceedings over the alleged wrongful declaration by the government on fuel consumption of his security vehicle. Engineer Rashid Ahmed raised the issue that the Home Department, in reply to a question, had shown bills on consumption of fuel of security vehicle worth Rs […]
NEW DELHI: With the Lok Sabha elections round the corner, the government is planning to raise the workdays under its ambitious rural employment guarantee programme MNREGA from 100 to 150 days per year. A proposal in this regard will be considered by the Union Cabinet on Friday, sources said here Tuesday. The populist measure is […]
NEW DELHI: Former RAW chief Sanjeev Tripathi today joined the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, following the footsteps of several retired bureaucrats and diplomats finding a career in politics. Tripathi, a 1972-batch IPS officer, is the latest to join the saffron party in the recent past after former Home Secretary R K Singh, […]
LAHORE: After repeatedly criticising him for his shoddy performances, former Pakistan captain Muhammad Yousuf today urged PCB to consider flamboyant all-rounder Shahid Afridi in leadership role for the ODI team. In the recent past, the barrage of criticism from Yousuf even prompted Afridi at one stage to dub him and Shoaib Akhtar as the “heckle […]
BY SUVAID YASEEN The fight by the occupation, and against it, is about decisive control of spaces – physical, territorial as well as those of ideas. In the case of the former, no surprises then that the Indian state spends massively out of its wealth to maintain more than half-a-million armed forces in Jammu and […]
On Monday, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah finally laid the foundation stone of Srinagar city’s much-talked about first vertical housing project. Undertaken by the Srinagar Development Authority (SDA), the project is supposed to bring in apartment blocks to deal with the housing needs of the burgeoning summer capital. But 600 flats in a city of 1.35 […]