All Kashmir University examinations postponed
Srinagar, Aug 5 (IANS) All Kashmir University examinations scheduled to be held from August 5 to August 10 have been postponed, it was announced on Sunday. No new dates have been announced yet.
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Mobile internet suspended in Kashmir
Srinagar, Aug 5 (IANS) Mobile internet has been suspended in Kashmir, it was announced late on Sunday night. In response to Twitter user Rayees Wani who complained internet was snapped, service provider Airtel wrote: “Hi!…
No leave in UP Police, key departments till I-Day
Lucknow, Aug 4 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary Anoop Chandra Pandey on Sunday directed the police department and other departments concerned with security not to allow any leave to their employees till Independence Day. The…
J&K Police dress & kit allowance hiked, to be paid in cash
New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) The Jammu and Kashmir State Administrative Council (SAC), which is chaired by Governor Satya Pal Malik, on Sunday decided to increase and pay the dress and kit maintenance allowance to…
Blood donation camp held for Indian Army at Ramjas College
New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) A blood donation camp was organised by the ‘I am still Human’ NGO at Ramjas College in Delhi University for the welfare of Indian Army personnel on Sunday. The seventh…
Honorarium for J&K Police SPOs increased
New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) The honorarium paid to the Special Police Officers (SPOs) of the J&K Police was on Sunday increased in view of their role in the fight against militancy. The move is…
Amid Kashmir tensions, Shah chairs security meet
New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday presided over a high-level security meeting amid escalating tensions in Jammu and Kashmir where a major security build up has sparked fears and…
India successfully test fires Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missile
Bhubaneswar, Aug 4 (IANS) India on Sunday successfully test fired a Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missile (QRSAM) with 30 kilometre range from a test range off the Odisha coast. Developed by the Defence Research and Development…
Shah chairs security meet with NSA, Home Secretary
New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday presided over a high-level security meeting amid escalating tensions in Jammu and Kashmir where a major security build up has sparked fears and…
A covert war that helped India crush Pakistan in 1971
By M.R. Narayan Swamy Title: Operation – The Untold Story of India’s Covert Naval War in East Pakistan; Author: Captain M.N.R. Sawant and Sandeep Unnithan; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India; Pages: 272; Price: Rs 499 This…
India offers Pakistan to take slain soldiers bodies
New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) The Indian Army on Sunday offered its Pakistani counterparts to take the dead bodies of its soldiers who were killed in a foiled infiltration attempt in Jammu and Kashmir. “The…
India’s missile development not to show aggression: Rajnath
Hyderabad, Aug 3 (IANS) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said that India’s missile development programme is not to display aggression and that its defence architecture is based on a three-pronged strategy of balance, restraint…
US purposefully undermined arms control treaty: Russia
Moscow/New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) Russia has hit out at the US for scrapping an arms control agreement, saying Washington “intentionally” plunged the bilateral Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty into a crisis, as it wanted to…
Talibani veterans join Jaish in PoK as Indian troops begin neutralising infiltrators
By Deepak Sharma New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) As the Independence Day celebrations draw near, large groups of suicide squads belonging to Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), scattered around their launch pads…
Army foils Pak BAT strike on LoC, kills 4
New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) The Indian Army claimed on Saturday that it has foiled an attempt by Pakistan’s Border Action Team (BAT) to carry out a strike in Keran sector on the Line of…
Panic sets in Valley amid shortage of essentials
By Sheikh Qayoom Srinagar, Aug 3 (IANS) Provisions are fast vanishing from the shelves of departmental stores and even from small grocery stores in towns and villages across the Valley. Petrol pumps are going dry…
LoC firing only at military targets, infiltrators: Indian Army
New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) After Pakistan army raised hue and cry over the alleged use of cluster bombs by India on the Line of Control (LoC), the Indian Army claimed that its action is…
After UK, Germany issues advisory against travel to J&K
New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) After the UK, Germany has also issued a travel advisory “strongly” discouraging its citizens from travelling to Jammu and Kashmir due to the recent security alert in the state and…
7 Maoists killed in Chhattisgarh
Rajnandgaon (Chhattisgarh), Aug 3 (IANS) Seven Maoists were killed on Saturday in an encounter by the security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Rajnandgaon region, near Maharashtra border, police said. The encounter began at about 8 a.m. and…
Machail Yatra in J&K suspended due to security reasons
Jammu, Aug 3 (IANS) An unexpected fallout of the Jammu and Kashmir government’s decision to call off the Amarnath Yatra due to security reasons has been the suspension of the annual Machail Mata Yatra in…