May 2018

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain today signed a key constitutional amendment bill to merge restive tribal region along the Afghan border with the northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, bringing an end to the

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today thanked Union Civil Aviation minister Suresh Prabhu for scrapping the mandatory baggage identification at the airports in the state, saying it will go

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan government today directed the interior ministry to block the national identity card (NIC) and passport of former dictator general (retd) Pervez Musharraf, a media report said today. Complying with

New Delhi, May 31: India is second to China in terms of number of smokers aged 15 or above accounting for 106 million of the world’s 1.1 billion smokers, according to a

Jammu, May 31: Two inter-state narcotic smugglers were arrested and 26 kg of poppy was seized from their possession in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district today, police said. Based on a tip-off,

Washington, May 31: Senior Taliban officials have been secretly negotiating with Afghan officials on a possible ceasefire, the Pentagon has said, even as US forces killed over 50 Taliban leaders in a

Srinagar, May 31: Claiming the three attacks on yesterday, Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) on Thursday said its operations in Ramadan will continue. JeM spokesperson in a statement issued to GNS said its men carried

Beijing, May 31: China today welcomed India and Pakistan’s decision to observe the 2003 ceasefire agreement to stop cross-border firing along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir and expressed

New Delhi, May 31: Former Union minister P Chidambaram will not be appearing before the CBI today for questioning in connection with the INX Media corruption case, officials said. However, the officials

PATHANKOT (PUNJAB): A thick security blanket was today thrown in around the four-storey judicial court complex here and all necessary arrangements were done to ensure a smooth trial in the sensational Kathua