Rajasthan assembly Speaker CP Joshi on Monday withdrew his petition from the Supreme Court challenging a July 21 order of the high court directing him to defer disqualification proceedings against former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot and 18 Congress legislators backing him. Joshi told the three-judge bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra that Rajasthan high […]
RAISING QUESTIONS of propriety and service rules, former interim CBI director and serving IPS officer, M Nageswara Rao, claimed on Twitter Saturday that Indian history had been “distorted” with the “whitewashing” of “bloody Islamic invasions/rule” and named previous Education Ministers who “were in charge of Indian mind space” for 20 “out of 30 years (1947-77)”. […]
Awantipora: A youth was killed and another person injured in a road mishap in Awantipora area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Monday morning, police said. The deceased was identified by police as 25-year-old Mukhtar Ahmad Hajam, son of Abdul Khaliq Hajam, a resident of Goripora village of Pulwama. As per SHO Awantipora, Mudassir Naseer, […]
New Delhi: With a record single-day jump of 49,931 COVID-19 cases, India’s caseload climbed to 14,35,453 on Monday, while recoveries surged to 9,17,567, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The country’s death toll rose to 32,771 with 708 fatalities being recorded in a day, the data updated at 8 am showed. There are 4,85,114 active […]
Terming the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories as a humiliation, former J&K Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah has said that he won’t contest assembly elections till the statehood is not restored to J&K. “As for me, I am very clear that while J&K remains a Union Territory I will not be contesting […]
A man died while another suffered grievous injuries in a mishap on Jammu-Srinagar highway in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday morning, police said. An official said that a Srinagar-bound pick-up truck (bearing registration number JK14D 3673) carrying bovines went out of the driver’s control and plunged into a deep gorge near army […]
A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel committed suicide after shooting himself dead with his service riffle in Rambagh area of Srinagar. Talking to news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), CRPF spokesman in Srinagar Pankaj Singh said that a CRPF man posted at Group Centre Rambagh identified as Pintoo Mondal of West Bengal, shot himself dead. […]
Jammu and Kashmir police Sunday recovered all the five bodies of a single family at Ramnagar area of Jammu region. Police said that based on the complaint of one Bhagat Ram R/O Janderari, Ramnagar that his son namely Mohan Lal S/O Bhagat Ram R/O Janderari, Ramnagar along with wife and three children were missing since […]
Jammu and Kashmir police today said that after the killing of a Lashkar-e-Toiba militant in a gunfight at Ranbirgarh, Lawaypora area on Srinagar outskirts, on Saturday, no resident of the summer capital is active in the militant ranks. “After the killing of Lashkar-e-Toiba militant Ishfaq Rashid Khan, no resident of Srinagar district is in militant […]
A cattle grazer sustained injuries in a mysterious explosion on Sunday near Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district, reported a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO). Unnamed officials told the news agency that the injured man has been identified as Ajay of Sehar Makri village on LoC in Bhawani area of Nowshera Tehsil […]