New Delhi: India’s Defence Minister A K Antony appears to be backing the Army which is unwilling to review the clean-chit it has given to five of its officers in the Pathribal fake encounter case, a decision that has generated outrage in Jammu and Kashmir. The Army recently announced that it was closing the case […]
BY JANET SURMAN We humans have always worked to support our life; worked to catch, grow and produce our food, to make our shelter, our clothes and our tools, in general to satisfy our needs. In groups tasks were shared and communities developed by dividing labour cooperatively according to expertise and free will. All worked […]
BY KALPANA SHARMA Thanks to the unfortunate and virtually relentless reports of sexual violence against women in different parts of the country, the question of women’s safety has found a place in pre-election debates. Every sexist or gender-insensitive remark made by a politician is noted and the individual is asked to explain what he meant. […]
NEW DELHI: Putting a question mark on the entire project of privatising six major airports developed by Airports Authority of India (AAI) including Kolkata and Chennai, the bidding process has been postponed once again till mid-March. This is the third postponement since November last year when the process was formally started. Problems have arisen on […]
New Delhi: In a last-ditch effort to meet revenue targets, the Income Tax Department will be sending out letters to 23 lakh assessees who have not filed returns. “We have identified 23 lakh people who have invested their money, but have not filed returns. We will be sending out letters to them asking them details […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Mohammad Yasin Malik and Hurriyat Conference(G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani Saturday castigated authorities at New Delhi’s Tihar for not allowing the family members of Kashmiri detainee, Javed Ahmed Khan, to meet him. Khan is lodged in the jail for the past over 19 years, Geelani said in […]
New Delhi: Holding BJP and Congress responsible for the fall of Arvind Kejriwal government, AAP leader Prashant Bhushan on Saturday said the party was left with no option but to quit as implementing Jan Lokpal was their top priority. “From the beginning, Congress and BJP were against this bill and that is why they didn’t […]
Srinagar: Chairman Hurriyat Conference(M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Saturday said the hanging and burial of Mohammad Afzal Guru at Tihar Jail would remain a “question mark over the functioning of Indian courts for times to come .” Mirwaiz said this during a visit to Guru’s family in Doabgah area of Sopore. He was accompanied by Agha […]
Attari: Pakistan is waiting for the new government to be formed in India for peace talk process to be restarted, Governor of Pakistani Punjab Mohammad Sarwar said here Saturday . Indian leadership is busy with the upcoming parliamentary elections and Pakistani government was waiting for the new government to be formed to restart the peace […]
SRINAGAR: Over 200 including 94 female HESP General and HESP Professional candidates appeared in the J&K Yateem Foundation’s 5th Annual Moral Science Test held at Kashmir Government Polytechnic College Gogji Bagh here on Saturday. In addition, five lakh and fifty thousand rupees were distributed among HESP students as part of second installment of scholarship. The […]