Lalit K Jha Washington: A US Congress-mandated report on Friday said that abuses by police and security forces are the most significant human rights problems in India, but that the government had made “some progress” in cases seeking to punish officials for killings during the 2002 Gujarat riots. “The most significant human rights problems were […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front( JKLF) chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik and several of his party colleagues were Friday detained when they were preparing to hold a protest rally in the city against the Army’s decision to close the Pathribal case. Malik and his 12 colleagues were taken into preventive custody near Maisuma while they […]
New Delhi: Government on Friday cleared a proposal of the Election Commission to raise expenditure limits for Lok Sabha elections to a maximum of Rs 70 lakh and a minimum of Rs 54 lakh, allowing candidates to spend more on their poll campaigns. The Commission has proposed to raise expenditure limits for Assembly Elections, with […]
Madurai: A Division Bench of the Madras High Court Friday ordered police to strictly implement the rule which made wearing of helmet mandatory for two-wheeler riders and pillion riders and deal with the violators as per law. Justice R Sudhakar and Justice V M Velumani directed police officials to submit a fresh report on April […]
New Delhi: The Indian government on Friday raised dearness allowance to 100 per cent, from 90 per cent, benefiting its 50 lakh employees and 30 lakh pensioners. The decision to hike DA for its employees, and to provide dearness relief for pensioners, by 10 per cent to 100 per cent was taken by the Union […]
A member of the Indian delegation at the UN, Sir Benegal Rama Rau, told the Security Council on March 1, 1951: “The people of Kashmir are not mere chattels to be disposed of according to a rigid formula; their future must be decided on their own interest and in accordance with their own desires.” 1990: […]
Srinagar: Police on Friday placed several pro-freedom leaders under house arrest. A statement issued by Hurriyat Conference (M) said that police placed its chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and several leaders under house arrest. The amalgam strongly condemned “the house arrest of its chairman, and putting restrictions on his peaceful, religious and political activities.” He also […]
Srinagar: Protests broke out in Kashmir’s largest maternity hospital on Friday against the “corrupt practices” of paramedical and security staff. Attendants assembled in the compound of the Lal Ded hospital and staged protests against the paramedics and security staff. The protesters alleged that the staffers had made it a norm to demand bribe from the […]
SRINAGAR: District Magistrate Srinagar has imposed ban on sale, purchase and plantation of Russian poplar tree species in Srinagar city, an official handout said Friday. Anybody found contravening this order shall be booked under relevant provisions of law, it said. Due to plantation and mushroom growth of Russian poplars in and around Srinagar, the pollens […]
Srinagar: Describing Pathribal fake encounter as “symbol of India’s oppressive attitude against the people of the state, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Thursday said that it will go ahead with the proposed protest rally in Lal Chowk area of Srinagar against giving clean chit to killers. JKLF spokesman said in a statement that “people of […]