Fresh landslides shut Srinagar-Jammu highway again
Srinagar, Jan 30: Srinagar-Jammu highway was on Wednesday closed again after fresh landslides blocked the highway at many places in Ramban area, said traffic officials overseeing the traffic on the road prone to stone pelting and landslides in the winter months. Traffic officials said, “One-way traffic from Srinagar to Jammu will be allowed as soon […]
3 journalists, policeman arrested for extortion in Noida
Noida: In a major operation, a police inspector and three journalists were arrested here on charges of bribery and extortion, officials said Wednesday. “Manoj Kumar Pant, SHO of Sector 20 police station, and journalists Sushil Pandit, Udit Goyal and Raman Thakur were arrested yesterday,” Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Vaibhav Krishna said. He said the […]
ED issues FEMA show cause notice to Pak singer in 2011 case
New Delhi : The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued a show cause notice against Pakistani singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan in connection with an alleged foreign exchange violation case against him, officials said Wednesday. They said the notice for violation offorex funds to the tune of Rs 2 crore has been issued under the Foreign […]
Pak using social media to radicalise Kashmiri youths: JK Police Chief
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Police Chief Dilbag Singh Tuesday said that Pakistan was using social media to radicalise Kashmir youths and running disinformation campaigns against India. The DGP said that Pakistan was cooking false stories to entice young minds into terrorist activities. “Pakistan, after launching and promoting a proxy war in the state, is using […]
Pak backed militants will continue attacks in India, Af: US spymaster
Washington, Jan 29: The militant groups supported by Pakistan will continue to conduct terrorist attacks in both India and Afghanistan, America’s spymaster has said. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats also said Pakistan’s “narrow approach to counterterrorism cooperation-using some groups as policy tools and confronting only the militant groups that directly threaten Pakistan-almost certainly will […]
Holding simultaneous elections test for PM Modi: Omar Abdullah
Srinagar, Jan 29: Former chief minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said holding Lok Sabha and Assembly elections simultaneously in Jammu and Kashmir was a test for Prime Minister Nerendra Modi. He said holding separate polls for Lok Sabha and Assembly would sent out a message that situation in Kashmir during three-year rule of PDP-BJP coalition […]
Barring Kashmiri journalists from R-Day function ‘serious press freedom violation’: RSF
Srinagar, Jan 29: Condemning the exclusion some accredited Kashmiri journalists from covering a Republic Day function in Srinagar, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called it a “serious press freedom violation”. Security officials cited “adverse reports” as grounds for preventing the journalists from entering Sher-i-Kashmir cricket stadium, the venue, although they were duly accredited by the […]
India, Pak troops trade fire in Samba
Jammu, Jan 29: Indian and Pakistani troops traded fire along the IB in Samba district, officials said Tuesday. Officials said Pakistani Rangers fired several rounds on forward posts along the IB in Ramgarh sector on Monday evening. BSF troops guarding the borderline retaliated resulting in brief exchanges, they said. Meanwhile, government forces have launched a […]
Cold wave intensifies in Kashmir
Srinagar, Jan 29: The cold wave conditions intensified across Kashmir division with mercury slipping further below the freezing point at most places even as the meteorological department has forecast wet weather over the next six days in the state. Drass, the second coldest inhabited place in the world, continued to shiver at extreme sub-zero temperatures […]
Pak FM telephones Mirwaiz; discusses Kashmir
India reacts: telephonic talk reflects Islamabad's duplicity on ties with India
BY: Images News Network/PTI Islamabad/Srinagar/New Delhi, Jan 29: Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi Tuesday telephoned Hurriyat-M chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and discussed with him Islamabad’s efforts to highlight the Kashmir issue. Pakistan Foreign Office said Qureshi spoke with Mirwaiz and discussed with him the efforts of Pakistan’s government to highlight the Kashmir issue. Qureshi […]
