As Saudi Arabia allowed women to watch matches in soccer stadiums earlier this month, a senior cleric at the influential Deoband Islamic seminary in India has issued a religious decree saying that Muslim women should not watch men playing soccer. Mufti Athar Kasmi said that watching men “playing with bare knees” violated the tenets of […]
A fire broke out at the Srinagar International Airport Monday in the area under the control of the Indian Air Force, disrupting the air traffic for sometime, reports quoting officials said. “There was a fire at the airport on Air Force side, which has now been put out,” an official of the Airport Authority of […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a fresh pitch for early passage of the bill to criminalise the practice of instant triple talaq by “humbly requesting” political parties to pass it in the Budget session which began Monday. In his customary address to the media outside Parliament House building on the first day of the session, […]
The Jammu and Kashmir police have filed a chargesheet against militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and eight others in the attack on Amarnath yatra pilgrims in July 2017 that left eight people dead. “The police have filed a chargesheet against LeT and 8 accused in Amaranth Yatra bus attack that took place in July last year,” […]
Srinagar: A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator today said that the army action in Shopian yesterday in which two youth were killed was “need of the hour” to prevent “bloodshed and chaos” in Jammu and Kashmir. Ravinder Raina, BJP Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Nowshera made this remark in a video that was shared on […]
A 32-year-old man was sucked into an MRI machine and killed after he walked into the room carrying an oxygen cylinder at a Mumbai hospital. The shocking incident, which has raised serious questions over safety, occurred on Saturday evening when the victim was helping an elderly relative into the MRI room for a scan. The […]
Srinagar: A complete shutdown was observed in Kashmir Valley today to protest the army killings of two youth in Ganawpora area of Shopian yesterday, even as curfew-like restrictions were in place in several parts of Srinagar to thwart the pro-freedom protests. The shutdown was called by Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL). Two youth Javaid Ahmad Bhat […]
As two youth were killed in Army firing in Shopian on Saturday, the ruling People’s Democratic Party and opposition National Conference traded barbs on social media over “politics on bodies.” Hours before killings in Gawonpora village of Shopian, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufi took to Twitter to condemn a bomb blast in Kabul that left over […]
Cellular companies have been directed by authorities to reduce mobile internet speed in Kashmir in wake of killing of two youth in Army firing in Shopian district on Saturday. Official sources told a local news agency GNS that police have sent a communication to the cellular companies wherein it has directed them to reduce mobile […]
Oxford Dictionaries has chosen ‘Aadhaar’ as the Hindi word of 2017. The word gained popularity due to Aadhaar card, which was in news last year and is likely to remain in highlight this year as well. The announcement was made at a session “Oxford Dictionaries’ Hindi Word of the Year” during the ongoing Jaipur Literature […]