NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate on Friday said it has attached a house located in Srinagar’s Bemina valued at Rs 1.5 crore as part of a money laundering investigation linked to alleged drugs trade being used to fund terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir. The action has been taken against the accused Abdul Momin Peer, […]
Srinagar: Another inmate among those injured in a gas cylinder explosion inside sub-jail Kupwara, earlier this month, has succumbed to injuries, taking the toll to two. An official told GNS that one Syed Tauseef Geelani, son of Syed Mohammad Geelani, a resident of Chetkheri Karnah, was hospitalised at SMHS Hospital Srinagar, where he succumbed today. […]
Kathua/Jammu: A few days after the encounter in the Hiranagar border area in which two terrorists were killed, nine Special Police Officers (SPOs) were regularized as constables in the police by the Director General of Police (DGP) R. R. Swain as a reward for their exceptional action. Swain announced that the village defence groups and […]
New Delhi: In an unusually hard-hitting response to criticism against it in a US government report on religious freedom, India on Friday described the findings as “deeply biased”, visibly driven by “votebank” considerations and a mix of imputations and selective usage of facts. Dismissing the report, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said it selectively […]
NEW DELHI: Deputy National Security Adviser (NSA) Vikram Misri was on Friday named as the next Foreign Secretary, according to an official order. Misri, a 1989 batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, has been appointed to the post with effect from July 15, it said. He will succeed Vinay Mohan Kwatra, who was in March […]