New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday announced that ties between India and Vietnam have been elevated to Enhanced Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. While addressing a joint press meet with Vietnamese President To Lam following their talks at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Wednesday, PM Modi called Vietnam a “key pillar” of India’s Act East policy and Vision Mahasagar.PM Modi said, “One decade back, during my first visit to Vietnam, Vietnam became India’s first Co…
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Srinagar, May 6 (IANS) Police in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district said on Wednesday that they have registered an FIR against the wife and son of a sitting MLA and Congress leader, Peerzada Mohammad Syed, for allegedly locking a government-run hospital.Officials said that Jammu and Kashmir Police have registered a case against the wife and son of the Anantnag MLA, Peerzada Mohammad Syed, for allegedly locking the hospital.The FIR was registered at Achabal police station, in South Kashmir’s…
Jammu, May 5 (IANS) Two persons were found dead while two others are reported to be missing when the vehicle they were travelling in was found on Tuesday in a gorge on the Mughal Road in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. Officials added that two persons have died while two others remain missing after a vehicle they were travelling in was found in a nallah near Chhattapani along the Mughal Road.Police in Poonch district said that four individuals had gone missing on Monday while travelling on th…
Srinagar, May 5 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor (L-G) Manoj Sinha said on Tuesday that every family broken by drug addiction is a crack in the society. L-G Sinha joined a large people’s movement in Budgam as part of drug-free Jammu and Kashmir campaign and assured the citizens that every arm of administration would act with resolve and unity to confront the issue and ensure that the threat is effectively eliminated.He appealed to every family, social organisation, spiritual and poli…
Srinagar, May 5 (IANS) Police in J&K’s Srinagar district said on Tuesday that they have attached property worth Rs 1.20 crore of a notorious drug peddler during the 100-day-long ‘Nasha Mukt Jammu and Kashmir Abhiyaan’.A police statement said that while continuing the relentless drive against drug trafficking under the ongoing 100 Days Campaign of Nasha Mukt Jammu & Kashmir Abhiyaan, Srinagar Police have attached immovable property worth belonging to a notorious drug peddler.Police Stat…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has modified its earlier order granting interim bail to Baramulla MP Abdul Rashid Sheikh, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, and permitted him to visit his ailing father, admitted to AIIMS in the national capital. In its latest order, a Bench of Justices Prathiba M. Singh and Madhu Jain permitted Rashid to go to AIIMS daily from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. till May 10.Earlier, the Delhi High Court had granted interim bail to Rashid to enable him to visit his fa…
Srinagar, May 5 (IANS) Police in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district said on Tuesday that they have arrested the most wanted female drug peddler and recovered contraband from her possession.A police statement said that in its sustained and uncompromising crackdown against drug trafficking, Anantnag Police achieved another significant success by apprehending a notorious female drug peddler involved in multiple narcotics cases.A police party of Police Post Dialgam had established a routine nak…
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) Rahul Gandhi’s long tenure at the centre of Congress politics has been defined by a string of electoral setbacks that now total 99 defeats nationwide, leaving him just one short of a century of losses. The infographic of his electoral record paints a stark picture of repeated rejections across states and years, underscoring the challenges faced by the Congress under his leadership.Over the last two decades, the Congress has navigated a difficult path, accumulating a total…
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, has been ferociously pushing a narrative in his country blaming India for attacks by the Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) and Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA).While it is clear that these are problems that have been created by the Pakistani state, the narrative that Munir is pushing is a clear sign that he wants terrorist groups such as the Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba to buck up. The push to blame India for attacks by the …
Srinagar, May 4 (IANS) All the top offices of the Jammu and Kashmir government reopened in Srinagar city after six months working in the winter capital, Jammu.Following the 150-year-old practice of shuttling all the top government offices between Jammu and Srinagar, the office of the chief minister, his cabinet colleagues, and senior bureaucrats operate from Jammu during winter and from Srinagar during the summer months.The practice had been discontinued during the central rule in the union terr…