New Delhi: Former Army Chief Gen VK Singh, who was engaged in a long-drawn battle with the Government over his age issue, will join the BJP on Saturday. The decision comes months after he shared dais with BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi at an ex-servicemen rally in Rewari in Haryana. However, he had refused […]
Srinagar: Kashmir’s former Divisional Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah has revealed that a critical portion of his report on the 1991 Kunan-Poshpora mass rape by Army soldiers was excised by the government and the then J&K Governor G C Saxena, who was “under a lot of pressure from the IG of the Border Security Force and others,” […]
NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party ( AAP) on Thursday released a second of list of 30 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha election with prominent names being Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and former BJP MP Rajan Sushant. The list has one candidate each from Delhi, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarkhand and Jammu […]
Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman, Syed Ali Geelani, Thursday reiterated his call for complete shutdown on February 28 and peaceful demonstration after Friday prayers “against the mysterious killings of seven youths in Kupwara by Indian army, use of brutal force on common people who were demanding the dead bodies of the slain youths and to […]
Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Pakistan “Dear Mr. Prime Minister: “Thank you very much for your message of February thirteenth. I am aware of your deep interest in the problem of Kashmir and of your hopes, which I share, for a settlement within the framework of the United Nations. “The […]
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association (HCBA) while strongly “condemning the use of brutal force by police and army on protestors in Lolab,” Wednesday supported the shutdown call given for Friday by Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman, Syed Ali Geelani, against the incident. “The Bar Association feels that the people, who had assembled outside […]
SRINAGAR: For the first time the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is sponsoring an interdisciplinary project on Dal Lake for the development of a comprehensive action plan for effective management of the lake system. The project titled “Strategy and action plan for strengthening the ecological integrity of the Dal Lake” is being implemented by the […]
The US said: Consistent with the United Nations Security Council Resolution of December 21, 1971, the United States favors the continuation of the ceasefire between India and Pakistan and the withdrawal of all military forces to within their own territories and to their own sides of the ceasefire line in Jammu and Kashmir; the United […]
The resignation came hours after submarine INS Sindhuratna had a mishap off the Mumbai coast New Delhi: A spate of accidents involving the Naval warships Wednesday claimed the job of Navy Chief Admiral D K Joshi who quit taking moral responsibility and his resignation was promptly accepted by Defence Minister A K Antony. The resignation […]
Balasore: For the third time in a span of five days, India successfully test-fired the indigenously developed surface-to-air missile Akash missile system from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur in Odisha on Wednesday. “Like the trials of the surface-to-air missile conducted on February 22 and 24, today’s test fire of Akash was successful,” a defence […]