In brazen violation of rules governing environmental protection in Jammu and Kashmir, over 600 stone crushing units in the State are breaching measures mandatory to minimize pollution levels. While these highly polluting units have been flouting norms with impunity for the past many years, the environmental watchdog, the State Pollution Control Board (PCB), is watching […]
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 in South Asia. Saudi Arabia also expressed hope that there would be a “peaceful resolution of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the relevant UN resolutions so that it contributes to […]
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 was on Tuesday sent to judicial remand till March 4 by a local court here. The Principal and Sessions Court, Baramulla sent Mohammad Shafiq Awam, of Muzaffarabad, who was arrested on […]
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 concerns about a proposed Economic Corridor through Pakistan-administered Kashmir (PaK). On Tuesday, China and Pakistan held a meeting to finalise the multi-billion dollar project as President Mamnoon Hussain arrived here on […]
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 Tuesday commuted death sentence of three condemned prisoners in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case to life imprisonment on the ground of 11 years delay in deciding their mercy plea by the […]
A proclamation was issued on February 19, 1990, exactly a month after the appointment of Jagmohan as the Governor of the state, to dissolve the Legislative Assembly. The then Chief Minister, Dr Farooq Abdullah, had resigned in protest over the appointment of Jagmohan who had ousted him in 1984 and installed his brother-in-law, G M […]
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 bold FIR against India’s most powerful tycoon Mukesh Ambani and his alleged accomplices in the ruling party. The evicted Delhi chief minister claimed high-level collusion to arbitrarily jack up the […]
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 Microsoft, evoking its well-known ‘Power Point’ programme. ‘India on the move!’ exulted other major papers. This euphoria replicated the sentiment that another caption conveyed some years ago: ‘India, beauty superpower […]
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 priorities of the Indian media, which never shies away from trumpeting its contributions to our vibrant democracy. It’s possible you’d ask why the charges of an elaborate cover-up that Mitta […]
Jammu: Opposition BJP and Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) legislators Tuesday held protest in the Legislative Assembly and staged walkout demanding setting up of a Dogri channel in the state. BJP members led by legislative party leader Ashok Khajuria and JKNPP MLAs led by Harsh Dev Singh, besides Jammu State Morcha member Ashwani […]