Jammu, Apr 19 (PTI) Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has praised the people of Jammu for upholding harmony and amity despite provocations and for standing up to demand justice for the eight-year-old girl brutally raped and killed in Kathua district. Speaking at a civic reception hosted for President Ram Nath Kovind […]

Jammu, Apr 16  Hailing the statements of army chiefs of India and Pakistan, senior CPI(M) leader and MLA M Y Tarigami today said the leadership of both the countries need to show courage and initiate the dialogue process to resolve all outstanding issues, including Kashmir. “It is high time that the […]

Srinagar, Apr 13  Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah today asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to break his silence over the rape and killing of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua district of the state. “Hon PM sir, there isn’t a day when we don’t hear you speak about […]

New Delhi, Mar 27  Congress president Rahul Gandhi today took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Doklam issue, saying he hoped the “56 inch strongman” has a plan to deal with the situation. Gandhi’s comments came after China on Monday asserted that Doklam belongs to it and […]

Ranchi, Mar 19   RJD supremo Lalu Prasad was today sentenced to 14 years in jail and fined Rs 60 lakh by a special CBI court in the fourth fodder scam case pertaining to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 3.13 crore from the Dumka treasury in the early 1990s, a CBI […]

India on Wednesday warned social media platforms like Facebook of ‘strong action’ if any attempt was made by them to influence the country’s electoral process through undesirable means. Amid probe by US privacy watchdog over a potential breach of user confidentiality by Facebook, IT and Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad […]

    Srinagar/New Delhi, Mar 20  The elevation of Jamaat-e-Islami’s Mohammed Ashraf Sehrai as chief of the separatist Tehreek-e-Hurriyat indicates the waning influence of its founder Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who wanted his elder son to take over from him, say insiders in the Valley. The move to appoint Sehrai, […]

New Delhi, Mar 19  Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia today tendered an apology to senior advocate Amit Sibal, son of former union minster Kapil Sibal, in a criminal defamation case filed by him. Kejriwal and Sisodia apologised for making “unfounded allegations” against Sibal in a […]

Srinagar, Mar 17   Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah today said the youth of the state had been left in lurch by a nepotistic and anti-youth PDP-BJP coalition government. Hard-working, meritorious and qualified youth of the state are being pushed against the wall because of open political […]