Srinagar, May 19 (IANS) J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Tuesday urged the people to strike the final blow to drug abuse so that the people and the administration together dismantle the narco-terror network and save the younger generation from addiction. J&K L-G joined the people’s movement against drugs in Pulwama and addressed citizens, urging them to intensify the fight against drug abuse and work collectively to dismantle the narco-terror network.He said the past month had wi…
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Chandigarh, May 7 (IANS) Aam Aadmi Party Punjab legislator Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal on Thursday expressed concern over the twin blasts in the state and launched a sharp attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central government. “It is a matter of concern for the whole of Punjab and India that whenever elections approach in the country or any state, incidents such as bomb blasts and terrorist attacks begin to occur,” he said.Dhaliwal said that just before elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party…
New Delhi, April 27 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah intensified his attack on the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, claiming that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, whom he referred to as “Didi”, is on her way out of power. Speaking to IANS during an election rally, he said, “I don’t believe that the goons will trust Didi and take their risk. Didi is going, and no one trusts those who are leaving. The police will deal with the goons.”The remarks came during a rally in West Beng…
Washington, April 23, (IANS) The man remembers the sound first. “It was the loudest noise I ever felt in my entire life… people were screaming… it was just a horrific, horrific heart that I can’t get outta my brain,” said a 9/11 survivor, his voice breaking as he recalled the moment the second plane struck.Inside a hall on Capitol Hill, thousands of miles from Kashmir, Mumbai and New York, those memories were not abstract. They were the centrepiece of an exhibition — The Human Cost of Terro…
Mumbai, April 23 (IANS) The Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (UBT) on Thursday said that as the nation observed the first anniversary of the brutal terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, the primary question remains: have the masterminds of this massacre truly been held accountable, or has justice been sacrificed on the altar of global diplomacy?The Thackeray camp in an editorial in the party’s mouthpiece, ‘Saamana’, stated that despite India sending multi-party parliamentary deleg…
Srinagar, April 22 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday attached several properties belonging to a Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terror operative involved in the 2017 fidayeen attack case on a Central Reserve Police Force camp, in which five paramilitary personnel were killed and three seriously injured. The attachment action, taken under Section 33 (1) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, in pursuance of recent orders of the National Investigation Agency Special…
Srinagar, April 8 (IANS) Spontaneous celebrations started in Kashmir Valley on Wednesday as Kashmiris called the bilateral ceasefire announced by the US and Iran a victory for the Muslim ‘Ummah’ (community). People burst firecrackers and took to the roads in jubilation in Baramulla, Srinagar, Budgam, Bandipora, and Pulwama districts.The joy and jubilation owed itself to the general belief among Muslims that the US and Israel agreeing to a ceasefire means a ‘victory for Iran and its brave peopl…
Gandhinagar, March 26 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become the longest-serving head of an elected government in the country, completing 8,931 days in office across his tenures as Gujarat Chief Minister and Prime Minister, state BJP president Jagdish Vishwakarma said on Thursday.Addressing a press conference at the party’s state headquarters in Gandhinagar, Vishwakarma said the milestone surpasses the 8,930-day record of former Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling.He added that …
New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) Congress leader Pawan Khera, on Friday, launched a sharp attack on the Centre over its alleged silence on killings in West Asia, rising petrol prices, and the film ‘Dhurandhar 2’, claiming that the movie was made to promote National Security Advisor Ajit Doval.Speaking to IANS, Khera criticised the Union government for what he described as silence over the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the deaths of school girls in Israeli attacks.“The…
Srinagar, March 13 (IANS) The police in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district said on Friday that it has cracked a fake currency racket and three persons have been detained in this connection. A police statement said, “The police in Shopian district have busted a fake currency circulation racket and recovered counterfeit notes worth Rs 79,000 following a complaint lodged by a local shopkeeper.””The action led to the arrest of three persons involved in circulating fake currency notes in the area a…