NEW DELHI: Indian Army fired as many as 30,000 artillery and mortar shells as well as over3 lakh rounds of small arms across the Line of Control in response to Pakistan’s ceasefire violations during the May 7-10 hostilities, Northern Command chief Lt-General Pratik Sharma said on Saturday.“For every round fired by Pakistan (after IAF and…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi landed in Tianjin Saturday evening for what is his first visit to China in 7 years, amid global trade disruptions and shifting alliances. The visit follows an almost year-long effort by both sides to narrow down their differences on the contentious border issue and normalise the relationship in the form…
NEW DELHI: A Belgian court is learnt to have rejected the bail plea of fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi ahead of his extradition hearing there. Choksi, who was arrested in Belgium in April this year, had applied for bail on medical grounds last month. Indian law enforcement agencies argued that Choksi was a habitual absconder and…
SRINAGAR: Bagu Khan knew every trail, every ridge, every hidden path across the LoC. The terrorist guide dubbed “human GPS” was killed in a gunfight with security forces in north Kashmir’s Gurez sector on Aug 28, officials said Saturday.Security officials said Khan had facilitated nearly 100 infiltration attempts over decades, often slipping across the LoC…
JAMMU: Police on Saturday seized a land parcel belonging to Mohammed Azam, a Pakistan-based handler of the proscribed Hizbul Mujahideen.Originally from Mandi tehsil in Poonch district, Azan allegedly continuously engaged in subversive activities in Jammu & Kashmir, particularly targeting the Poonch-Rajouri region, following his escape to Pakistan/PoK, they said.A land parcel belonging to Azam was…
JAMMU: Once again, the Army came to the rescue of civic administration as it constructed a 110-feet bailey bridge over the Tawi River in Jammu city in less than 12 hours, after a section of the vital 4th bridge collapsed amid heavy rainfall on Aug 26.Sharing details, Major General Mukesh Bhanwala, GOC, Tiger Division, said:…
JAMMU/SRINAGAR: Torrential rain and back-to-back cloudbursts unleashed flash floods and landslides in J&K Saturday, killing 11 people in Ramban and Reasi districts and pushing the monsoon death toll across Jammu division this Aug to 122. Among the dead: a couple and their five children buried alive in a mountainside home.In Ramban, floodwaters tore through remote…
NEW DELHI: Holding that the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has not been able to deliver the desired results in the real estate sector, Union housing and urban affairs minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday flagged a high probability of stressed projects that reach the tribunal never getting completed.Speaking at realtors’ body NAREDCO’s annual convention,…
NEW DELHI: Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Assembly and Kalkaji MLA, Atishi, on Saturday wrote to Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, citing the killing of a sevadaar in the Kalkaji temple and claimed the national capital has turned into the “capital of crime, extortion and gang wars” under the BJP-led government.There was no immediate response…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) on Saturday released the names of 1,804 “tainted” teachers linked to irregularities in the 2016 State Level Selection Test (SLST), following a Supreme Court order to disclose the names within a week.The list, uploaded at 8 pm on the commission’s website, contains names, roll numbers, and serial…
