Despite warning and closure of Coaching Centre, clashes continue
By: Mudasir Khan Srinagar: After the Sunday warning by Education Minister Altaf Bukhari to students that they would be declared as hoodlums, if they will not shun the protests and join their classes. He also declared that all the Coaching Centre across Kashmir Valley have been closed by the government as according to him they […]
Road safety awareness week begins in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, : A host of awareness functions including rallies, seminars, debates and quiz competitions were held across the Kashmir Division today to mark the 29th Road Safety Week aimed to highlight the need for safe driving practices. The theme for the road safety week this year is ‘Sadak Suraksha – Jeevan Raksha’. At Srinagar: The Regional Transport […]
Afghan girl spends life disguised as ‘son’ her parents wanted
SULTANPUR, Afghanistan: Sitara Wafadar yearns for long hair like other girls. Instead, the Afghan teenager has disguised herself as a boy for more than a decade, forced by her parents to be the “son” they never had. With five sisters and no brothers, Sitara lives by the gender-twisting custom known as “bacha poshi”, which in […]
AFSPA revoked in all of Meghalaya, some areas of Arunachal Pradesh
The Ministry of Home Affairs release stated that there was a 37 per cent decline in the number of insurgency incidents in 2017 in the Northeast region. The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) will be revoked from all parts of Meghalaya and it has been reduced from 16 to eight police station and outpost […]
Mughal road reopens for traffic
Jammu—The Mughal Road, connecting the twin districts of Poonch and Rajouri in Jammu region with South Kashmir’s Shopian district, was reopened for traffic after 4-day long closure due to landslides and snowfall in high altitude areas. The Mughal Road was reopened yesterday, police officials said. The traffic was allowed on both sides of the road. […]
India may burn, rape girls but Modi interested in becoming PM again: Rahul
New Delhi: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday launched a blistering attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying the country could burn, girls may be raped and the rights of scheduled castes and minorities be under a threat, but Modi was merely interested in becoming the Prime Minister again. The twin burning issues of Dalit rights […]
Taliban Attacks Kill At Least 14 Troops, Police
Afghan officials say two near-simultaneous Taliban attacks in western Badghis province have killed at least 14 troops and policemen. Ghulam Sarwar Haidari, the deputy provincial police chief, says a large number of insurgents attacked army units in the district of Ab Kamari, killing nine soldiers in that attack on Monday. He says that at the […]
US man who went on sex trips to Philippines gets 330 yrs jail for child porn
Washington: A nude gunman shot dead three people and injured at least four more in the early hours of Sunday at a restaurant on the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee, police said. The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said in a statement that the shooting occurred at a Waffle House restaurant in Antioch, a suburb southeast of […]
Student protests reported from Pampore, Sopore, Kangan
Srinagar: Student of Jamia Kadeem High School Sopore on Monday took out a protest march against the brutal rape and murder of Kuthua minor. Reports said that protesting students assembled near Jamia Kadeem shouting anti-governmental slogans and marched towards Bus stand demanding punishment for the accused. Local said that as soon as students reached near […]
Salman Khan caste remark row: SC stays proceedings, asks states to respond to actor’s plea
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday put on hold the proceedings pending against Bollywood superstar Salman Khan before several courtsacross the country in cases registered under the SC/ST Act for alleged derogatory remarks against a community. A bench of Chief Justice Deepak Misra, Justice AM Khanwilkar and Justice DY Chandrachud also issued notice to states on […]
