Agencies New Delhi : The Parliament on Friday approved an amendment to the anti-terror law to give powers to the central government to designate an individual as terrorist and seize his properties. While Lok Sabha had passed the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill, 2019 that seeks to amend the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 on […]
Budgam : Jammu and Kashmir Police on Friday claimed to have arrested a “notorious” drug peddler in Nasarullahpora area of Budgama district in central Kashmir and recovered contraband substance charas from his possession. A police spokesman said that officers at a checkpoint established at Nasarullahpora arrested one notorious drug peddler identified Ab Hameed Mir alias […]
New Delhi : The Modi government will take an “appropriate decision” at the “appropriate time” on Articles 370 and 35-A and it will be in the interest of Jammu and Kashmir as well as the country, the BJP”s poll in-charge for the state Avinash Rai Khanna said on Friday. The BJP, the party”s vice president […]
The Home Ministry on Friday said the deployment of paramilitary forces in Jammu and Kashmir was based on the security situation there and requirements of rotation, and that such things are not discussed in the public domain. Sources in the ministry also said100 companies (10,000 personnel) of central forces had been ordered for deployment about […]
An Army jawan was on Friday killed in an encounter that broke out between militants and security forces in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday. Acting on a tip off about the presence of militants in Pandushan area of south Kashmir’s Shopian district, security forces launched a cordon and search operation there during […]
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The three-member mediation panel appointed by the Supreme Court to find an amicable solution to the Ayodhya issue submitted its report to the court Registry Thursday. A five-judge Constitution Bench will review the report Friday to take a call whether to continue with the mediation effort or commence daily hearing of the appeals against the […]
An army man was killed and another injured in an ongoing gunfight on Friday at Pandushan village of south Kashmir’s Shopian district. The gunfight broke out at Pandushan village after a joint team Army’s 34RR, SOG and CRPF launched a cordon and search operation in the village, said an official, adding a soldier identified the […]
Amarnath Yatra suspended, general high alert sounded in the State. An additional 25,000 security personnel were ordered to be moved to Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, days after Governor Satya Pal Malik said “all was normal”, fuelling a fresh wave of speculation in the State. According to police sources, a fresh order was directed to […]
US president Donald Trump also seemed to be doubling down on a part of the earlier offer in which he had claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked him to mediate in a recent conversation, which had been forcefully and swiftly dismissed by India. US President Donald Trump reiterated his offer Thursday to mediate […]