A police officer was shot dead by terrorists inside his home in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Saturday.The attack on Sub-Inspector Farooq Ahmad Mir took place at Samboora in Pampore area on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday, they said. “Sub-Inspector Mir’s body was found in paddy fields near his […]
Reports have emerged from Kabul–assailants belonging to ISIS Khursan–having entered Gurdwara Karte Parwan, in the capital of Afghanistan on Saturday morning.Afghanistan-origin Sikhs living in the national capital, said they have received calls from Gurnam Singh, president, Gurdwara Karte Parwan, informing them about the attack. Manjinder Singh Sirsa of the BJP said he has spoken to […]
The US State Department has said that it has condemned the offensive comments made by two BJP officials about Prophet Mohammed.“We were glad to see that the party (BJP) publicly condemned those comments,’’ said State Department spokesperson Ned Price in response to a question from a Pakistani journalist on “hate crimes committed by thge Indian […]
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is conducting searches at multiple locations here in connection with the case against arrested Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).Sources said raids are being conducted at nearly 10 residential and official premises linked to several property dealers and other business entities. The 57-year-old Jain was […]
After taking gangster Lawrence Bishnoi into seven-day custody, the Mansa police have taken three others — Monu Dagar, Pawan Bishnoi and Naseeb Khan — on seven-day remand in the Sidhu Moosewala murder case and are conducting their joint cross-examination. While Bishnoi has been kept at Kharar, the three others are being questioned in Mansa. Sources […]
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has been conducting searches on Friday at the Jodhpur residence and shop of Agrasen Gehlot, the brother of Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, in connection with alleged 2007 fertiliser scam case, sources said.Agrasen is a fertiliser trader. He was earlier questioned by the Enforcement Directorate under Prevention of Money […]
Violent protests over the Central Government’s ‘Agnipath’ scheme for recruitment in armed forces continued across Bihar and Uttar Pradesh on Friday. In Bihar, agitators disrupted rail and road traffic and set the Bhagalpur-New Delhi Vikramshila Express and Jammu Tawi-Guwahati Express trains on fire. Several organisations have given a 72-hour ultimatum to the Modi Government to […]
India’s Test players have left for England where they will play the postponed fifth Test from their 2021 series in the country. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) shared photos of the players at the airport and in flight ahead of the tour. India are set to face England at Old Trafford […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on Saturday likely to visit his mother, Hiraba, in Gandhinagar, where a road was named after her on Wednesday, ahead of her 100th birthday on June 18. Gandhinagar mayor Hitesh Makwana said the 80-metre road in the Raysan area has been named as Pujya Hiraba Marg so that the next […]
The foreign ministers of India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) began a special meeting in New Delhi on Thursday to review relations between the two sides and to forge a response to the impact of the Ukraine crisis on the economy and security of the region. This is the first time India […]