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Israel admits strikes in Syria for first time...
( Occupied Palestine )
Tel Aviv:Israel has launched dozens of strikes in Syria, the regime’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admits for the first time. Visiting Israeli troops in the occupied Golan Heights on Monday, Netanyahu said Israel carried out the attacks to prevent alleged arms transfers to Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah. “We act when we need to act, including here across the border, with dozens of strikes meant to prevent Hezbollah from obtaining game-changing weaponry,” he added. The...
US neither sincere nor serious in fight against terrorism:Le...
( Iran )
Tehran:Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says certain powers, the US in particular, are neither sincere nor serious in the campaign against terrorism. In a Monday meeting with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev in Tehran, the Leader stressed the importance of enhancing cooperation between Tehran and Astana in different political, economic and international fields as well as in the fight against terrorism. “Certain powers, particularly the US, are not sincere and...
Military might, spirituality go hand in hand:Leader of Musli...
( Iran )
Tehran/Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, in a meeting with senior commanders of the Iranian Armed Forces on Sunday, said the most important characteristic of the “collective identity” of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran is their concurrent endowment with “operational and military capability” as well as “spiritual and religious motivations and orientations.” Ayatollah Khamenei emphasized: “In the Islamic Republic establishment, the main task...
Massive fire in Paravur temple at Kollam in Kerala,110 dead ...
( India )
KOCHI:In one of the worst accidents of its kind in the state, 110 people were killed and nearly 500 injured in a huge explosion in a temple complex, near Kollam on Sunday morning. The explosion happened when sparks from the firework display organised by the temple landed on the building where the fire crackers where stored. The accident, which occured around 3 am at at the Puttingal Devi Temple Complex at Paravoor destroyed the store house and damaged the temple and nearby houses. Police have registered...
Govt rejects outstation students’ demand to shift NIT Srin...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
New Delhi:HRD Ministry officials have rejected the demand of outstation students of NIT Srinagar for shifting the institute out of Kashmir but assured them of addressing their “genuine” issues.
A group of outstation students of the NIT met Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh and Education Minister Naeem Akhtar along with officials from Union HRD ministry last night to discuss the situation at the institute.
“The demand for shifting the NIT out of Kashmir has been outrightly rejected...
Kargil’s religious organizations end differences...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Kargil:Ending the differences of decades the two influential religious organizations of Kargil, Imam Khomeini Memorial Trust (IKMT) and Islamia School Kargil (ISK) Saturday signed an agreement. A high-level meeting was held in Iran Culture House, Delhi which was facilitated by the representative of Supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Aqa e Mehdavi pur and the representative of Almustafa International University in Delhi Aqae Raza Saleh. Later the agreement was welcomed...
Who is responsible for NIT episode?...
Bilal Bashir Bhat
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Last year during the Techvaganza festival at National institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar Kashmir, I was there to receive a certificate as a receipt for being the media partner of the event, I talked to many non-local students there, and they had all praises for hospitality, gesture and the cordial relation maintained by local students. Hardly anyone talked about politics. Only a non-local student whom still I’m in contact said that there is a need to launch a campaign about the misunderstanding...
Large parts of Syria under government control:Russia...
( Russia )
Moscow:Russia says the Damascus government currently controls sizable parts of Syria, with fresh gains made by Syrian forces against the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group over the past few months. Russia’s Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov made the remarks during a briefing on Friday in the recently-liberated Syrian town of al-Qaryatayn in the central province of Homs. “Over the past six months, the government troops and patriotic forces backed by the Russian air group have liberated about...
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq demands complete ban on liquor and drugs...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Srinagar:Expressing serious concern over the disastrous impact of spread of drug addiction in Kashmir, Jammu Kashmir Mutthida Majlis-e-Ulema (MMU) Ameer and Hurriyat Conference (M) Chiarman, Mirwiaz Dr. Moulvi Mohammad Umar Farooq Thursday called for imposing a complete ban on the sale and consumption of drugs and liquor in Kashmir. He said Kashmir valley has remained a pious land for ages and had been an abode of saints and religious scholars. The Mirwaiz said there was no justification for allowing...
5500 mosques of Iran ready to hold I’tikaf...
( Iran )
Tehran:There are more than 5500 mosques all over Iran to hold I’tikaf ceremony and more than 60000 worshipper from Tehran will attend this holy tradition. According to The Mosques Studies Center ‘’About 5500 Iranian mosques are ready to host worshippers for I’tikaf ceremony’’, the Cultural and Social Affairs Deputy of the Center of Supervision on Mosques Affairs reported. Hojjatul Islam Saeid Karami said: There are also 600 mosques of Tehran Province to hold this holly ceremony which...