Uttar Pradesh deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma has said that the Ram temple in Ayodhya will be built “when Lord Ram wants it”. Sharma was here on Sunday to attend a programme at the residence of UP co-operative minister Mukut Bihari Verma. “The BJP has explained its stand on Ram temple in its Sankalp patra. […]
Srinagar: Unidentified men late Sunday night barged into the residential house of a Pulwama resident and stabbed him. Sources said that a 30-year-old man Shabir Ahmad Ganai was stabbed in his stomach by unidentified men in Nowpora Payeen village of the southern Kashmir’s Pulwama district. They said that Ganai was admitted to the District Hospital […]
The rupee weakened further and dipped by 54 paise to 73.04 against the US dollar Monday, owing to increased demand for the American currency from importers amid increasing global crude oil prices. International benchmark Brent crude was trading higher by 2.04 per cent at USD 71.61 per barrel. Forex traders said besides increased demand for […]
Srinagar: Kashmiri Sikh Community Monday held a protest demonstration in Srinagar demanding revocation of SRO-425 in Jammu and Kashmir. The Sikhs from various district of Kashmir valley assembled here in Pratap Park under the banner of Kashmir Sikh community. Holding placards and banners reading: “SRO- 425 totally injustice with Kashmiri Sikhs”, ” Stop Favouritism”, “Do […]
Jammu: Maj. Gen. Sharad Kapoor, GoC, 26 Infantry Division, met Governor Satya Pal Malik at the Raj Bhavan here today and briefed him about the security situation in the area of his responsibility. During their discussions, the Governor and the GOC reviewed issues relating to the pattern of infiltration from across the International Border and […]
The Central Government has asked the Governor’s administration to remove all the bottlenecks in the developmental projects of J&K State and restart all he stalled projects as they have been assured liberal funding by the Central agencies. Recently Chief Secretary made it clear that capital won’t be a constraint to transform the State’s developmental landscape, […]
Demonetisation and the Goods and Services Tax are the two major headwinds that held back India’s economic growth last year, former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has said, asserting that the current seven per cent growth rate is not enough to meet the country’s needs. Addressing an audience at the University of California in Berkley, Rajan […]
Srinagar : Paying tributes to slain militants who were killed in Tral and Pulwama gunfights, Hurriyat (G) Conference chairman, Syed Ali Geelani on blamed the government and said that their insensitivity and unconcern is the sole reason for this “unabated bloodshed”. The spokesman said that the youth spilled their hot blood for the great and […]
Srinagar : Hizb-ul-Mujahideen Supreme Commander Syed Sallah-Ud-Din, Deputy Chief Saifullah Khalid and Field Operational Commander Mohammad Bin Qasim have in a joint statement mailed to KNS by Hizb Spokesman Saleem Hashmi paid glowing tributes to two militants killed in a gunfight in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district saying therein that ‘sacrifices of martyrs’ and won’t be […]
Jammu: An Army man was killed Saturday in sniper fire by Pakistani troops along the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, a defence spokesman said. This was the second sniper attack along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir in as many days. An Army porter lost his life in a […]