Chandigarh: A seven-year-old girl, who was returning home from her school, was allegedly raped by a man in Haryana’s Rewari district, police said Wednesday. The man grabbed the child and took her to the fields and raped her there on Tuesday, they said. The girl was profusely bleeding when she reached home, police said. She […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik has said militants don’t have “much of a shelf life” with more than 40 being killed since August and should not expect bouquets if they fire bullets. Stone pelting has come down as has the number of local recruits in militancy, Malik said while describing the situation […]
Pune: Four Army personnel have been booked for allegedly raping and molesting a 34-year-old speech and hearing-impaired woman employee of a military hospital here in Maharashtra in 2015, police said Wednesday. Besides the police, the Army too is conducting a ‘court of inquiry’ against the four personnel, who also worked in the same military hospital […]
Srinagar: The just-concluded urban local body polls in Kashmir recorded a poor voter turnout but it will perhaps be remembered for nearly 70 per cent of wards not witnessing any polling as there was no candidate at all or some of them winning unopposed. According to data compiled by the election department of Jammu and […]
Srinagar: Srinagar police on Wednesday issued an advisory, asking general public not to go near the Fateh Kadal encounter site as it is being sanitized and cleared by Bomb Disposal(BD) squad of J&K Police. “Entering in such area can prove dangerous due to un cleared explosive materials & people are requested to cooperate with police […]
Srinagar: A soldier of Indian Army’s Signal Regiment was on Wednesday arrested at the Army Cantonment in Meerut on charges of sharing information with Pakistani intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), India Today reported. It is suspected that the Army jawan was a Pakistani spy sent to infiltrate the Army and share military secrets with Pakistan. […]
London: Author Anna Burns has won the Man Booker Prize for her novel ‘Milkman’, becoming the first author from Northern Ireland to win the most prestigious English-language literary award. Burns, 56, who was born in Belfast, is the 17th woman to bag the award in its 49-year history and the first woman since 2013. It […]
Hajin: The residents of this north Kashmir Township today hit the streets and staged a protest against the power development department (PDD) over their alleged failure to restore electricity in the area. Dozens of residents, including women of Syed Mohallah (B) here took to streets this morning and staged a protest against the alleged apathy […]
Baramulla: A senior police officer and his security guard were injured on Wednesday in a militant in Pattan town of this north Kashmir district. Witnesses told Kashmir Reader that militants lobbed a grenade at a team of policemen near Babteng in Pattan here this afternoon injuring Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) operations Zaffar Mehdi and […]
Aligarh (UP): Kashmiri students at the Aligarh Muslim University have deferred their decision to surrender their degrees and leave the campus en masse Wednesday following revocation of the suspension order of the two students by the varsity. The suspension order was revoked Tuesday night after a three-member enquiry panel set up by the varsity exonerated […]