New Delhi: Flags of Palestine, Iran flags, and pictures of Iran's supreme leader, Syed Ali Khamenei, and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrullah were seen during the 8th Muharram procession in Srinagar to show solidarity with Iran and Palestine. Police had asked Shias not to hoist Iran, Palestine, or Hezbollah flags and display Iran's supreme leader or any other picture but despite the restrictions they displayed flags of Iran and Hezbollah and banners supporting Iran, Palestine and Hezbollah during ...Read More
Srinagar, Jul 4 (PTI) Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday appealed to the general public to visit Jammu and Kashmir, the region recently hit by several terror killings. "I want to tell my citizens that the people here are waiting to welcome with their hearts filled with love and warmth. So, come here without fear and set a new example of love and brotherhood." Chouhan said, according to a press statement. The agriculture and rural development minister was speaking to reporters on th...Read More
Jammu, Jul 4 (PTI) A search operation by security forces to track down terrorists hiding in a forest area of Kishtwar district in Jammu and Kashmir entered the third day on Friday, with additional deployment made in the area to reinforce the cordon, officials said. The operation follows an encounter that broke out between the terrorists and the security forces in the heavily forested Kanzal Mandu area of the Kuchal-Chatroo belt on Wednesday. The encounter broke out when police, assisted by Arm...Read More
New Delhi [India], July 4 (ANI): Keeping the door open for diplomacy, Iran has stated that any negotiation process with the US is meaningless until Washington provides a 'credible guarantee' to prevent future acts of aggression by Israel and the US. In an email interview with ANI, Iran's Ambassador to India, Iraj Elahi emphasised Tehran's conditions for resuming dialogue with Washington. 'As for negotiations with the United States, considering their betrayal of diplomacy and complicity with th...Read More
New Delhi [India], July 4 (ANI): India on Friday refuted claims that External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's request to meet US President Donald Trump was denied by the White House due to his busy schedule, terming it as 'fake news.' In a post on X, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Factcheck unit stated, 'CLAIM: White House denies Indian FM Jaishankar's request to meet Donald Trump due to busy schedule. This is FAKE News. This CLAIM is false.' https://x.com/MEAFactCheck/status/1940852409657...Read More
Kishtwar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], July 4 (ANI): As Amarnath Yatra began after the recent Pahalgam terror attack, Kishtwar MLA Shagun Parihar said that the administration and people have given a befitting reply to terrorists conspiring to disrupt the Yatra. Speaking to ANI on Thursday, the BJP MLA said, 'Today, lakhs of devotees are going for Amarnath Yatra. The people of Jammu and Kashmir are not afraid of anyone now, and all the conspiracies of Pakistan will fail.' 'Our forces, Jammu and ...Read More
New Delhi [India], July 4 (ANI): Keeping the door open for diplomacy, Iran has stated that any negotiation process with the US is meaningless until Washington provides a 'credible guarantee' to prevent future acts of aggression by Israel and the US. In an email interview with ANI, Iran's Ambassador to India, Iraj Elahi emphasised Tehran's conditions for resuming dialogue with Washington. 'As for negotiations with the United States, considering their betrayal of diplomacy and complicity with th...Read More
Srinagar, July 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Another batch of 6,411 pilgrims left Jammu on Friday for Kashmir amid tight security arrangements to perform pilgrimage to the Amarnath Shrine. The officials said that 12,300 yatris had 'darshan' inside the holy cave shrine on Thursday, the first day of the 38-day-long Amarnath Yatra. "Another batch of 6411 Yatris left Bhagwati Nagar Yatra Niwas in the morning in two escorted convoys of 291 vehicles for the Valley. Of these, 2789 are going to Baltal base camp ...Read More
Rana Sanaullah is adviser to Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif New Delhi: A top Pakistani politician has admitted his country's military had only 30 to 45 seconds to determine whether a BrahMos cruise missile fired by India during Operation Sindoor could have a nuclear warhead. Rana Sanaullah, adviser to Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, also pointed out that the risk of a nuclear war weighed heavily during the India-Pakistan conflict, which broke out after Pakistan-linked terr...Read More
Prayagraj: The Phulpur police on Monday arrested two persons, including a woman, allegedly involved in luring poor girls from Dalit families, taking them to Kerala for religious conversion and pushing them into anti-national activities. Those arrested were Daraksha Bano (19) and Mohd Kaif (25) of Lilhat village.DCP (Ganga Nagar) Kuldeep Singh told TOI that a woman, Guddi Devi of Lilhat village, approached Phulpur police on June 28 alleging that Daraksha, on May 8, enticed her 15-year-old daughte...Read More
Kolkata: BJP "isn't fighting Muslims... and the state's plurality needs to be saved", Samik Bhattacharya said on Thursday after taking over as the party's new state president."There is a conscious effort to divide Bengal on basis of religion. The minority community should understand that we are not fighting against them. We are fighting against the forces that shove stones in their boys' hands. We want to replace stones with books. We want to replace the swords in their hands with pens," Bhattac...Read More
Nagpur: The Nagpur Metropolitan Region Development Authority (NMRDA) has almost completed the Rs 132.49 crore phase 1 of the Tajbagh renovation and beautification project and is now awaiting Rs 95.87 crore to start phase 2 of the project. Under the first phase, NMRDA strengthened and beautified the main dargah, constructed a shopping complex, a choti dargah, shops, and other structures, including marble flooring. According to NMRDA sources, Phase 1 of the project received Rs 132.49 crore adminis...Read More
NEW DELHI: India and Ghana upgraded their relationship to a comprehensive partnership with focus on enhancing defence and security ties, as PM Narendra Modi became the first Indian PM to visit the country in three decades. After a bilateral meeting with President John Mahama, Modi thanked Ghana for its cooperation in the fight against terrorism and for solidarity after the Pahalgam attack, saying they had decided to further strengthen cooperation in counter-terrorism efforts."We also held discus...Read More
U.S. and India trade negotiators were pushing on Wednesday to finalise a tariff-reducing deal ahead of President Donald Trump's July 9 negotiating deadline, but disagreements over U.S. dairy and agriculture remained unresolved. WHY ARE FARM GOODS IMPORTS SENSITIVE IN INDIA? Agriculture and its allied areas contribute just 16% to India's $3.9 trillion economy, but sustain nearly half of the country's 1.4 billion population. As farmers remain the most powerful voting bloc, Prime Minister Narendr...Read More
New Delhi, July 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) In an indirect admission of facing defeat, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's adviser Rana Sanaullah has revealed that his country's military had less than a minute to analyse whether a BrahMos cruise missile fired by India on the Nur Khan airbase during Operation Sindoor could have a nuclear warhead. "When India fired BrahMos at Nur Khan airbase, Pakistan's military had only 30-45 seconds to analyse whether the incoming missile may have a nuclear warhea...Read More
New Delhi: In a setback to Bollywood actor Jacqueline Fernandez, Delhi High Court on Thursday dismissed her plea to end criminal proceedings in a Rs 200-crore money laundering case involving Sukesh Chandrasekhar, currently imprisoned for fraud.Justice Anish Dayal dismissed the plea that also sought to quash the chargesheet by the Enforcement Directorate and proceedings pending before the special court under the stringent Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) against her and others.A copy of ...Read More
NEW DELHI, July 3: Pakistan's hockey teams will not be stopped from competing in next month's Asia Cup and the subsequent junior World Cup in India as any move to block the arch-foes from multi-lateral competitions in the country would be a violation of the Olympic Charter, a sports ministry source said on Thursday. While the Asia Cup is scheduled to be held in Rajgir, Bihar from August 27 to September 7, the junior World Cup will be organised in Chennai and Madurai from November 28 to December...Read More
Dibrugarh: In one of the largest anti-encroachment drives in recent years, the Lakhimpur district administration on Thursday demolished 218 illegal homes and cleared 288 bighas of encroached land across three Village Grazing Reserves (VGRs).The eviction drive, which was conducted under the supervision of district commissioner (DC) Pronab Jit Kakoty and senior superintendent of police (SSP) Gunendra Deka, saw a massive deployment of police and paramilitary forces, along with 12 excavators, at Phu...Read More
Jammu, Jul 3: Massive Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) Thursday continued for the second day to hunt down terrorists with whom security forces established contact on July 2 in dense forests of Kanzal Mandu area in Chhatroo belt of Kishtwar district. "Anti-terrorist operation is in progress," PRO Defence Lt Col Suneel Bartwal said, when asked about the latest status of the encounter that erupted between security forces and hiding terrorists in Kanzal Mandu forests on Wednesday evening. Accord...Read More
New Delhi: A single missile. Thirty seconds. That is all Pakistan had when India's BrahMos slammed into the Nur Khan Airbase - just minutes from Islamabad. No early warning. No clear warhead signature. No time to guess whether it carried a conventional payload or a nuclear one. Rana Sanaullah Khan, special assistant to Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, went public. He said that 30-second window nearly sparked a nuclear chain reaction. His words were not laced with bravado. They carried ...Read More
NEW DELHI: Notwithstanding opposition's refrain that the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of Bihar's electoral roll stands to disenfranchise "tens of lakhs" of electors, EC remains steadfast in proceeding with the exercise strictly in conformity with the Constitution and the laws governing voter enrolment."The implementation of SIR in Bihar is running as per schedule with the active participation of all election staff and all political parties in the most transparent manner. Despite appr...Read More
JAMMU: A joint anti-terror operation in the densely forested belt of Kuchal-Chatroo in J&K's Kishtwar district entered its second day Thursday, with security forces intensifying combing in the region to hunt two to three Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists believed trapped within the cordon.The operation was launched late Wednesday based on intelligence inputs about the movement of terrorists in Kanzal Mandu area. A search party hunting for the ultras came under fire, triggering an encounter. Following ...Read More
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday announced the provisional attachment of assets worth approximately ₹131.45 crore in Spain, including a luxury yacht and immovable properties, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). These assets belong to Pavel Prozorov, a Spanish national and the alleged mastermind behind the unauthorised forex trading platform OctaFX. The attached assets comprise a commercial Italian-model luxury yacht cruising in the Western Mediterranean, ...Read More
Srinagar: The first batch of Amarnath Yatra pilgrims set off Thursday from the Baltal and Nunwan base camps towards the 3,880-metre-high cave shrine in the south Kashmir Himalayas, officials said. The yatra started early in the morning from the traditional 48-km Nunwan-Pahalgam route and the 14-km Baltal route. Pilgrims left from the Nunwan base camp in Pahalgam, in south Kashmir's Anantnag, and Baltal base camp in Sonamarg area of central Kashmir's Ganderbal, at the first light of the day, of...Read More
Rayachoti (Andhra Pradesh), Jul 3 (PTI) Two alleged terrorists from Tamil Nadu nabbed here recently after 30 years lived under "fake identities," and nearly 20 kg of explosives were seized from them, police said on Thursday. Abubacker Siddique, allegedly involved in the 2011 pipe-bomb planting attempt during BJP veteran and former Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani's rath yatra in Tamil Nadu's Madurai and his accomplice Mohammed Ali were arrested earlier from here. Siddique was involved in sever...Read More
New Delhi [India], July 3 (ANI): The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), under the chairmanship of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, on Thursday, accorded Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) for 10 capital acquisition proposals amounting to approx. Rs 1.05 lakh crore through indigenous sourcing. "The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) chaired by Raksha Mantri Shri @rajnathsingh today accorded Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) for 10 capital acquisition proposals amounting to approx. Rs 1.05 lakh crore throug...Read More
Srinagar, July 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) State Investigation Agency (SIA) of J&K Police on Thursday carried out searches at the premises of two suspects in Anantnag district in connection with the non-local killing case. A statement by SIA said that these searches were carried out as part of an ongoing investigation into the brutal killing of Raja Sah on April 17, 2024, in Bijbehara. The searches aimed to uncover critical evidence to unravel the conspiracy behind this heinous crime and identify accom...Read More
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister (EAM) Dr S. Jaishankar has said that Operation Sindoor conveyed to the world that India will act firmly against terrorism. Speaking to media after the Quad meeting in Washington, EAM said he shared with his counterparts, in the Quad as well as globally, the nature of the terrorism challenge that India faces and has confronted over multiple decades, and "that we are very resolved today to respond to it very firmly and that we have the right to defend ourselves...Read More
New Delhi [India], July 3 (ANI): The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) on Thursday cleared 10 capital acquisition proposals worth approximately Rs 1.05 lakh crore for procurement of indigenously sourced quick reaction surface-to-air missiles, naval vessels and more. The DAC accorded Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) for capital acquisition proposals, including the procurement of Armoured Recovery Vehicles, Electronic Warfare System, Integrated Common Inventory Management System for the Tri-Services...Read More
Jammu: The new breed of terrorists with a different style of terrorism is keeping few areas of Jammu region on the edge as despite getting trapped into the cordon at several occasions; they have managed to give slip to security forces. They are different from the militants of the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s era because of their ability to stay deep inside the dense forests without mingling with the general public, which are keeping them at large from the hands of security forces. Since April last y...Read More