Srinagar: PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday alleged Atiq Ahmad and his brother’s killing in Uttar Pradesh was a “clever diversionary tactic” to shift attention from the “revelations” made by former Jammu and Kashmir governor Satyapal Malik about the Pulwama attack. Malik, in an interview to a news portal, had claimed that there were lapses […]
Srinagar: National Conference leader Sheikh Mustafa Kamal on Sunday called for an independent probe into the killings of gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf Ahmad in Uttar Pradesh. “There should be an independent probe into the encounter. There are fingers being pointed already,” Kamal told reporters in Anantnag district. He said in the absence […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference President and MP from Srinagar Dr. Farooq Abdullah on Sunday asked people to unite against the divisive forces, trying to disenfranchise them of their identity, land and resources. This he said while addressing party functionaries in a commemorative function held at Khannabal, Anantnag on the 8th death anniversary […]
New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday demanded answers from the Centre on the outcome of the probe into the 2019 Pulwama incident in which 40 CRPF jawans were killed, asking why were the CRPF personnel denied aircraft and were made to commute via road despite attack threat. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh accused the BJP-led […]
New Delhi: Former Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik there was “no question of apologising”, after Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) national executive member Ram Madhav sent him a legal notice, accusing him of making “defamatory statements” and seeking an apology. On Thursday, Madhav sent a legal notice to Malik, stating that in an interview […]
Farooq Condemns Closing Historic Mosque: ‘Clear Violation, Interference With Religious Rights Of People’ Srinagar: The managing body of the Jamia Masjid here on Friday said that the authorities have disallowed “Jumat-ul-vida” congregational prayers at the historic mosque. Elsewhere, thousands of people in Kashmir offered Jumat-ul-Vida prayers, the last Friday of the holy month Ramzan, with […]
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday reviewed the functioning of the security grid and all security-related aspects in Jammu and Kashmir and conveyed the Narendra Modi government’s unflinching resolve to the policy of zero tolerance against militancy. Shah also reviewed the preparations for a G20 meeting to be held in Srinagar next […]
Kampala: Forces who indulge in cross-border militancy against India for decades now know this is a “different India” which will give them a reply, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said, stressing that today the country can meet its national security challenges posed by China and Pakistan. Addressing the Indian community in Uganda on Wednesday, […]
Beijing: China has released a new set of revised rules for military recruitment in wartime, including giving priority to the veterans, drafting high-calibre soldiers and optimising conscription procedures, which an analyst described as combat readiness for a war over Taiwan. A set of revised rules regarding military recruitment has been released by the State Council […]
New Delhi: References to freedom fighter and India’s first education minister Maulana Abul Kalam Azad have been removed from the new class 11 political science textbook by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT). As part of its “syllabus rationalisation” exercise last year, the NCERT, citing “overlapping” and “irrelevant” as reasons, dropped certain […]