New Delhi, Oct 5: At least two exit polls on Saturday predicted a clean sweep for Congress in Haryana assembly election while Congress-National Conference (NC) alliance was seen ahead in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) in a close contest. The counting of votes is scheduled on October 8, 2024. While elections concluded in Haryana today (October...
Srinagar, Oct 5: In a massive pan India crackdown in a Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) conspiracy case, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday conducted searches at multiple locations in five states and arrested one person. NIA said that Sheikh Sultan Salah Uddin Ayubi alias Ayubi, a JeM operative, was taken into custody after searches at...
Srinagar, Oct 5: A day after New Delhi announced that External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will travel to Islamabad to attend a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) next week, Kashmir’s separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said that India and Pakistan have a real opportunity at the upcoming Summit to break the ice...
Srinagar, Oct 5: National Investigation Agency sleuths are conducted searches at 22 locations in five states in a case related to activities of banned Jaish-e-Mohammad, officials said on Saturday. The searches were being conducted in Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh , Assam and Delhi, they said. Officials said the NIA teams are being...
Srinagar, September 5(GNS): Army on Saturday claimed to have killed two unidentified militants in Gugaldhar area of North Kashmir’s Kupwara district. Taking on to the micro-blogging platform X, The Chinar Corps of Army wrote, “Two terrorists have been eliminated by the security forces in the ongoing Operation GUGALDHAR. War-like stores have been recovered. Search of...
Dhaka, Oct 4: Bangladesh, India and Nepal inked a 40-megawatt energy deal in the presence of Syeda Rizwana Hassan, the Environment, Forest, Climate Change, and Water Resources advisor of the Bangladesh government, media reports said. The tripartite power sales agreement was signed in a ceremony in a Kathmandu hotel by the Bangladesh Power Development Board...
Srinagar, Oct 4: Ahead of declaration of Assembly election results on October 8, the National Conference on Friday said that it was not in talks with any party outside the INDIA bloc for post-poll alliance in Jammu and Kashmir. The party was responding to social media posts that suggested NC had opened negotiations with...
Pyongyang, Oct 4 : North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said that his country will respond with nuclear weapons if South Korea and the United States use force against it, the media reported. Pyongyang will not hesitate to use all available offensive forces, including nuclear weapon, if the enemy tries to use force to encroach...
New Delhi, Oct 4 : External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will be visiting Pakistan to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) ‘Heads of Government’ (HoG) summit meeting on October 15-16 in Islamabad, the MEA spokesperson announced today. Addressing the weekly press briefing on Friday, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that EAM Jaishankar will lead the...
New Delhi, Oct 4: With radical Islamic preacher and Indian fugitive Zakir Naik receiving a red-carpet welcome in Pakistan and even meeting with the Pakistani leadership, India on Friday termed it disappointing and condemnable but said that it is not surprised. Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal, addressing the weekly briefing, said: “We are...
Beirut, Oct 4 : Hezbollah said in a statement on Thursday that the group killed 17 Israeli soldiers in border confrontations over the day. Lebanese military sources and Hezbollah sources told Xinhua that after clashes lasting for about 10 hours, Hezbollah combat groups were able to stop the Israeli advance towards the southeastern villages of...
Srinagar, Oct 4 : Two soldiers were injured in a suspected mine blast in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, officials said on Friday. They said the blast took place along the Line of Control (LoC) in Trehgam at around 3 am when soldiers were patrolling in the area. “A Havaldar and a Naik of...
Doha, Oct 3: The Gulf Arab countries told Iran that they intend to remain neutral amid the conflict between Iran and Israel, media reports said on Thursday. Officials from the Gulf Arab states discussed de-escalation with Iran during meetings in Qatar, the report said, citing two sources. On Tuesday, Iran launched nearly 200 missiles at...
Tehran, Oct 3 : Iran has resumed flights to and from the country as of Thursday morning, following their suspension after Iranian missile attacks on Israel on Tuesday evening, according to a spokesman of Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization (CAO). CAO spokesman Jafar Yazarlou announced that the flight restrictions were lifted after ensuring that the conditions...
United Nations, Oct 3 : More than 700,000 people are now internally displaced in Haiti, an increase of 22 percent since June, a UN spokesman said Wednesday, citing new figures from the International Organization for Migration. Over half of the people displaced are children, said Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN secretary-general, at a daily...
Moscow, Oct 3: Russian air defence systems destroyed 113 Ukrainian drones overnight over the Belgorod, Voronezh, Kursk, and Bryansk Regions, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Thursday. “During the past night, an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack using fixed-wing drones against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation...
Srinagar, Oct 2 : Hurriyat Conference chairman and Kashmir’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has filed a petition in the Jammu and Kashmir High Court challenging his “house arrest”. The case has been listed on October 4, said a statement on Wednesday. A statement issued by Mirwaiz said he had earlier filed a writ...
Jammu, Oct 2: Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from Surankote constituency in the Assembly polls, Syed Mushtaq Bukhari, died on Wednesday due to illness at his native place in the Pamrote Surankote area of the Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir. He was 75. He was a two-time legislator from Surankote, a Scheduled Tribe reserved constituency...
New Delhi, Oct 2 : India on Wednesday called for restraint among the parties in the Middle East and urged that all issues be addressed through dialogue and diplomacy, as Iran let loose a barrage of missiles at Israel even as Tel Aviv has vowed revenge. In a statement, the Ministry of External Affairs said:...
Srinagar, Oct 1: Awami Itihad Party (AIP) Chairman Abdul Rashid Sheikh, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, on Tuesday said the National Conference will not hesitate in joining hands with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to form the next government in Jammu and Kashmir if they fall short of a majority in the assembly election....
Srinagar/Baramulla/Jammu, Oct 1: A record 65.48 percent voter turnout was witnessed till 5 pm on Tuesday, in the third and final phase of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly election, polling for which was held for 40 Constituencies across seven districts, JK Chief Electoral Officer said. In Jammu region, Chhamb assembly segment witnessed a record turnout...