Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday attended sweeping war games in his country’s far east involving troops from China and other nations, in a show of military muscle amid the tensions with the West over Moscow’s action in Ukraine. The weeklong exercise that began Thursday is intended to showcase growing defense ties between Russia […]
London: Conservative Party leader Liz Truss was on Tuesday formally appointed as Britain’s new Prime Minister by Queen Elizabeth II, becoming the third female premier of the country. Truss travelled to the 96-year-old monarch’s Balmoral Castle residence in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, to meet the Queen who formally asked her to form a new government. Earlier, outgoing […]
Itanagar: The Arunachal Pradesh government will cancel all Scheduled Tribe certificates earlier issued to offsprings of tribal women married to non-tribals after screening of the cases by a committee, a state minister said in the assembly on Tuesday. Responding to a question by senior Congress MLA Lombo Tayeng, Social Justice, Empowerment, and Tribal Affairs (SJETA) […]
New Delhi, Sep 6 (PTI) The Central government’s decision to rename Rajpath as ‘Kartavya Path’ has drawn mixed reactions from the public. While some of them welcomed the move and termed it as a ‘positive change’, some others disagreed to the idea and said that the concept of Rajpath and Janpath crossing each other will […]
Mumbai: Former Lok Sabha MP Raju Shetti on Tuesday claimed he has been getting monthly financial aid of Rs 2,000 under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Yojana (PMKSY) though not eligible whereas many deserving farmers are deprived of the benefit. By the virtue of being a former MP, Shetti gets a monthly pension and is […]
Anantnag: A gunfight between militants and government forces is taking place in Shopian district, police said on Monday evening. Police sources told Kashmir Reader that the militants might have escaped, taking advantage of darkness, but the operation was still going on when this report was filed. “A combing operation is being carried out. We guess […]
Srinagar: Militants on Monday evening fired upon SOG camp situated in Imam Sahib area of South Kashmir’s Shopian district. A top police officer said that militants fired some rounds of bullets towards SOG Camp Imam Sahib. However in this incident no loss of life or injury was reported. Taking advantage of darkness militants managed to […]
Srinagar: Additional director general of police, Kashmir zone, Vijay Kumar on Monday said that the killing of the Pulwama man whose body with bullet marks was recovered in Shopian village today, was due to group rivalry between militant groups. Kashmir zone police, while quoting the ADGP, in a tweet informed that the deceased’s one brother […]
Debates, essay competitions in J&K for inculcating Gandhian values on Oct 2 Srinagar: The government will hold debates and essay writing competitions in all schools and colleges on truth and non-violence for inculcating these Gandhian values in the character of new generations, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said on Monday. Addressing a Teachers’ Day function at […]
Bhaderwah/Jammu: Seven people were killed after two cars veered off a mountain road and plunged into a stream in separate incidents in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district on Monday, police said. One more person was injured in the two accidents that occurred on the Doda-Bhaderwah road within a span of six hours, Senior Superintendent of […]