Beijing: China on Monday criticised Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh, stating that it violated Chinese sovereignty over the area, a claim outrightly dismissed by India. Home Minister Shah on Monday launched ‘Vibrant Villages Programme’ from Kibithoo, the border village of Arunachal Pradesh and India’s easternmost place. “Zangnan, (the Chinese name for Arunachal […]
Jammu: Former Jammu and Kashmir police chief S P Vaid has expressed concern over the home department transferring several deputy superintendents of police-ranked officers, saying this power till now was vested with the DGP. He said the home department effecting such transfers is “attempt to weaken the authority of police chief”. The home department on […]
Srinagar: ltija on Monday shot off a letter to the regional passport officer here, questioning the decision to issue her a country-specific passport for two years only, and demanding a regular passport for 10 years. “As per rule 12 of the passport rules, duration of the passport has to be ten years. However, in my […]
New Delhi: Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan carried out a comprehensive review of overall security situation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China in the Sikkim sector amid the lingering border row in eastern Ladakh. Gen Chauhan was apprised about Indian Army’s operational readiness in the region by senior military commanders […]
Srinagar: The PDP on Saturday said the BJP’s Kashmir policy and its “naya Kashmir” rhetoric are like the emperor’s new clothes that the judiciary and civil society have no option but to praise. In its monthly newsletter, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said in BJP’s “naya Kashmir”, a conman like Kiran Patel visits the valley […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference President and Member of the Parliament from Srinagar Dr. Farooq Abdullah on Saturday visited Kokernag to commiserate with senior leader Choudhary Zaffar Ali Khatana on the demise of his brother Choudhary Amjad Ali Khatana. Joined in by the party’s local unit and other South Zone functionaries, he expressed […]
Srinagar: “Am I a terrorist or an anti-national”, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter Iltija asked on Friday, a day after she was issued a “country-specific passport” for two years to allow her to study in the United Arab Emirates. The 35-year-old had moved the Jammu and Kashmir High Court in February after her application for […]
Srinagar: Police on Friday dismissed as “completely false” the allegations of PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter Iltija that she was being “pressured to withdraw her petition” in the high court after she was issued a “country-specific passport” for two years. Without naming Iltija in its response to her allegations, the police said security verifications preceding […]
Srinagar: Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid Srinagar on Friday said the “illegal and arbitrary” detention of its head Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir Dr Umar Farooq, continued today on the third Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, due to which he could neither perform Friday prayer nor fulfill his official duties for the consecutive 189th Jummah. In a statement, […]
Srinagar: The proposed visit of the Election Commission of India to Jammu and Kashmir likely this month has raised hopes of political parties that assembly polls in the Union territory could be held this year. The last assembly elections were held in Jammu and Kashmir in 2014, five years before the erstwhile state was reorganised […]