Further needling India on the Kashmir issue, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday nominated 22 parliamentarians as special envoys to be despatched to world capitals to highlight the issue. “We will also remind the United Nations its long-held promise of self-determination to the Kashmiri people,” Mr. Sharif said. The move by Mr. Sharif comes in the backdrop of escalating […]
» Read moreA Delhi court on Saturday issued notices to ongress chief Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul Gandhi and others accused in the National Herald case. The court asked the Congress and Associated Journals Limited (AJL) to submit documents such as balance sheets. The order came on a plea filed by BJP’s Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy asking for the documents. Swamy […]
» Read moreA policeman has been shot dead in volatile Pulwama in south Kashmir on Saturday morning. Preliminary reports suggest the policeman,Khurshid Ahmad Ganai, was killed in Quil area when he was heading for duties. He was posted with the policelines in Pulwama. Sources said unidentified militants opened fire from a close range. Pulwama has been on the boil for 50 days […]
» Read moreThe State government on Friday appointed senior advocate R. Muthukumaraswamy as the new Advocate General of Tamil Nadu. A Government Order was passed hours after the outgoing Advocate General A.L. Somayaji tendered his resignation.
» Read moreThe new headquarters for the Andhra Pradesh Police will be built within four months on the premises of the APSP 6th Battalion at Mangalagiri in the capital region, Home Minister N. Chinarajappa has said. Located at a distance of 15 km from the Secretariat in Velagapudi, the police headquarters is the second major government office in the capital region. Mr. […]
» Read moreThe Bombay High Court on Friday allowed women to enter inside the sanctum of the Haji Ali dargah. A division bench of Justice V M Kanade and Justice Revati Mohite-Dere said the ban order by the Haji Ali Dargah Trust contravenes Article 14 (equality before law within India), 15 (prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion, caste, sex), 19 (1)(d) […]
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