Indian Army on Sunday changed the rules of engagement along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China, empowering field commanders to use firearms under “extraordinary” circumstances. Earlier on Sunday, following a high-level meeting headed by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, the army had been given “full freedom” in giving “befitting” reply to any Chinese aggressive […]
An army personnel was killed as Pakistani troops opened fire and lobbed mortar shells at forward areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri and Poonch districts on Monday in violation of a ceasefire agreement, officials said. “At about 3.30 am on Monday, The Pakistan Army initiated unprovoked ceasefire violation by […]
Anantnag, June 22 (KNO): A gunfight broke out between militants and security in forests of Verinag area in south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Monday. An official told News agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that a joint team of Police, army’s 2 Paras and CRPF launched a cordon and search operation on specific information about the presence […]
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir will hold an emergency foreign ministerial meeting via video conference on 22 June 2020, to discuss the latest situation in the erstwhile state, the Muslim body said on Sunday. The meeting will bring together the foreign ministers of the J-K Contact Group member states: […]
India on Saturday again rejected China’s claim on Galwan Valley in Ladakh and reiterated that the violent clash of June 15 was triggered by Chinese efforts to build structures on the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC). The external affairs ministry dismissed claims made by China’s foreign ministry in a statement issued late on Friday […]
Srinagar: The alleged discovery of a grenade at a corporator’s house, and suspected vandalism, intoxication and stalking — the unseating of Srinagar mayor Junaid Mattu this week has deteriorated into a truly bizarre drama that has local police confounded. Mattu, a member of the Peoples Conference, was removed Tuesday as the mayor of the Srinagar Municipal […]
With the latest round of biennial polls to the Rajya Sabha over, the BJP-led NDA has further widened its gap with the Opposition in the House, with the saffron party now having 86 seats and rival Congress merely 41. The National Democratic Alliance now has nearly 100 members in the 245-member House. If the support […]
Hours after the Prime Minister’s Office issued a clarification regarding Narendra Modi’s concluding remarks at the all-party meeting on the border issue with China, the Congress stated that the PMO’s statement was “clearly a lame attempt to obfuscate the truth”. In its rejoinder to the PMO statement, the Congress posed several questions before the government, asking to state […]
Rejecting China’s claim of sovereignty over the Galwan Valley, the site in Ladakh where the violent showdown took place, the Ministry of External Affairs issued a strong rebuttal and stated that attempts by Beijing to now advance “exaggerated and untenable claims” with regard to Line of Actual Control there are not acceptable. “The position with regard […]
Srinagar, June 20 (KNS): Parents of Medical Students struck in Kyrgyzstan today appeal the administration to evacuate their wards as soon as possible so that their wards can not suffer any more. Talking to KNS Mohd Iqbal he said ” From April we are demanding to evacuate our wards as govt had already evacuated the […]