Anganwadi workers and helpers in Jammu and Kashmir today announced suspension of their nearly six-month-long agitation for various demands including hike in honorarium, saying they are temporarily resuming work on the assurance of the state administration. Over 28,000 Anganwadi workers and helpers went on an indefinite strike across the state on February 1 to press […]
The Rajasthan Police on Monday admitted to a delay in taking Akbar Khan, the man allegedly beaten to death by a mob in always on Sunday, to a community health centre for treatment. The admission comes hours after a report in The Indian Express claimed that police had stopped to have tea, and got the […]
A hand grenade attack ripped through the election office of the Balochistan Awami Party in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province, injuring at least 30 people, including five critically, the second major attack on the party ahead of general elections on Wednesday. Party workers and supporters of Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) candidate Amanullah Notezai were sitting in […]
Srinagar: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi Monday blamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “brutal New India” for the recent lynching in Alwar in Rajasthan. Criticising the delay by policemen in taking the victim to hospital, The Indian Express quoted Gandhi saying, “This is Modi’s brutal “New India” where humanity is replaced with hatred and people are crushed […]
COLOMBO, — Rangana Herath took six wickets as Sri Lanka completed a 199-run win over South Africa to sweep the two-test series with a day to spare. The veteran spinner snared 6-98, including the vital wicket that broke up South Africa’s 123-run sixth-wicket stand just before the lunch interval on Monday. Theunis de Bruyn (101) […]
Government forces on Monday launched a cordon-and-search-operation (CASO) in Lone mohalla area of Khudwani in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district. The CASO has been launched a day after three militants were killed in a gunfight with the forces in the adjoining Wani mohalla of Khudwani. An official said the operation was jointly launched by Army’s 1 […]
New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Monday said there cannot be a “complete ban” on holding protests and sit-ins at places like Jantar Mantar and Boat Club here and asked the Centre to frame guidelines for according sanctions to such events. A bench of justices A.K. Sikri and Ashok Bhushan said there was a need […]
Srinagar : Journalists affiliated with news agency CNS particularly district reporters from across Jammu and Kashmir on Monday staged a peaceful protest both in Srinagar and Jammu against registration of an FIR for circulating the letter of scholar turned Hizb militant Manan Wani. The spokesman in a statement said that police station Kothi Bagh has lodged […]
Pulwama : A woman died and nine others were injured after a tractor they were travelling on fell into a nallah in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district late Sunday evening. A police official said the accident took place around 9 pm on Sunday when the driver lost control over the tractor while negotiating a curve and […]
New Delhi: The Congress today said there was no clause in a 2008 pact between India and France that prevents the government from divulging price details of the Rafale deal. Former defence minister and senior Congress leader A K Antony said the government’s claim that a secrecy clause in the pact was forcing it to […]