Highway opens for stranded vehicles after three days

Jammu-Srinagar NH opens for stranded vehicles after three days Banihal/Jammu : The strategic Jammu-Srinagar Highway was opened for stranded vehicles on Wednesday, three days after it was closed due to multiple landslides and sinking of its 25-metre portion following snowfall and rains, officials said. The traffic on the 270-km highway, the only all-weather road linking […]

India, Pak must de-escalate tensions: Farooq Abdullah

Srinagar: National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah Wednesday called for de-escalation of tensions between India and Pakistan and asked both the countries to maintain “maximum restraint” for the “greater good of humanity”. “History bears testimony to the fact that war did not help both the neighbours resolve their long pending issues. It is in the […]

India summons Pak Dy HC, lodges protest

New Delhi: India on Wednesday summoned Pakistan’s Deputy High Commissioner here to lodge a strong protest over Pakistan Air Force’s bid to attack Indian military installations, External Affairs Ministry sources said. According to sources, Pakistan Deputy High Commissioner Syed Haider Shah, who was summoned to the South Block here, also told Indian officials about capturing […]

Top security, intel officials meet at PMO; Modi briefed

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Wednesday briefed about the latest security situation following violation of Indian airspace by Pakistani fighter jets in Jammu and Kashmir, sources said. Top security and intelligence officials were in a huddle earlier in the day at the prime minister’s office in the wake of fresh developments that […]

NIA raids 11 locations of JeM men, separatist in Kashmir

NIA raids 11 locations of JeM men, separatist in Kashmir

(Agencies) New Delhi/Srinagar :  The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday said it searched 11 places of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militants and separatist leaders in connection with the Pulwama attack. An NIA spokesperson in Delhi said the houses searched included those of Mudassir Ahmad Khan and Sajjad Bhat of JeM. Bhat had allegedly provided his Maruti […]

Imran Khan calls for talks to de-escalate rising tensions with India

Imran Khan calls for talks to de-escalate rising tensions with India

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday once again invited India for talks and urged better sense should prevail. Addressing the nation in the wake of Pakistan Air Force (PAF) shooting down two Indian aircraft inside Pakistani airspace, the premier said, “I wanted to take you into confidence regarding the situation arising since yesterday. We […]

Operations at 9 airports have resumed as of now: DGCA

New Delhi: Aviation watchdog DGCA Wednesday said operations at the nine airports, which were shut earlier in the day, have resumed “as of now”. A spokesperson of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation said, “As of now, ops to these airports resumed (sic).” The DGCA Wednesday issued a notice to airmen (NOTAM), saying flight operations […]

China again urges Pakistan, India to show restraint, seek dialogue

BEIJING: China called on Pakistan and India on Wednesday to “exercise restraint” and seek dialogue after the Pakistani military said it shot down two Indian warplanes in its airspace amid rising border tensions. “What we are concerned about is that India and Pakistan, as important countries of the South Asian subcontinent, can maintain good neighbourly […]