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Centre mulling to establish separate “Leh Police Wing&...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Kargil: An establishment of separate police wing in newly carved UT Ladakh is on cards and preparations in this regard have been initiated. Sources told that the separate force would be named ‘Leh Police Wing’ (LPW) and will be headed by IGP rank officer. Wilayat Times reports that according to JKNS, it has been learnt that the newly turned Union Territory (UT) Ladakh would be given separate police wing soon and Union Home Ministry has started ground work for its completion. Sources said that...
Over 57,000 Acres of Land Identified for Setting Up Industri...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir administration has identified over 57,000 acres of land for setting up industrial estates for prospective entrepreneurs, officials said on Thursday. While 15,000 acres of land have been identified in Kashmir valley, 42,500 acres of land have been identified in Jammu region, they said. KK Sharma, adviser to Lieutenant Governor, chaired a high-level meeting and directed officers to make suitable and sufficient land available for setting up new industrial estates for the...
WhatsApp users in Kashmir being removed as Internet shutdown...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Jammu:As the Internet blackout in Kashmir crossed 120 days, tens of thousands WhatsApp users who have “auto-exited” are in fear of losing personal data. Hojatul Islam Wal Muslimeen Aga Dr. Syed Mudasir Rizvi who is seminary scholar and presently perusing Islamic studies in Iran informed his family members living in Srinagar on Wednesday night that all relatives have suddenly “left” the family WhatsApp group. “The data on the group came to a halt on August 5. We used to share pictures...
CIA behind Recent Unrest in Iran: Paul Craig Roberts...
( US )
Washington:Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, former US assistant secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy under President Ronald Reagan in 1981, said the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) orchestrated the recent riots in Iran over fuel price hike. “The riots were organized by the CIA just as in Ukraine, Hong Kong, Georgia, the “Arab Spring.” Why is this not obvious to Iran?” Craig Roberts, current chairman of the Institute for Political Economy, told Tasnim News From early 1981 to January 1982,...
PM Modi offered for Joint Work, I rejected says Sharad Pawar...
( India )
New Delhi:CP chief Sharad Pawar has said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had proposed “working together” but he rejected the offer. Pawar made the claim in an interview to a Marathi TV channel on Monday. “Modi had offered me to work together. I told him that our personal relations are very good and they will remain that way but it is not possible for me to work together,” Pawar said. Pawar dismissed reports that Modi government offered to make him India’s President. “But...
Since 1967 Over 200 Palestinians martyred in Israeli custody...
( Palestine )
Gaza:A total of 222 Palestinians have been martyred in Israeli custody since 1967, a year when first Palestinian was martyred under custody, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS). Ami Abu Dyak, a cancer patient who was in jail for the last 17 years, was the latest victim pronounced dead on Nov. 26. Abu Dyak, 37, from Silat ad-Dhahr in the West Bank’s Jenin province, was arrested in July 2002 and sentenced to three life sentences with an additional 30 years. He was accused of...
Disagreement among Muslims hurts Islam and Ummah:Ayatollah A...
( Iran )
Tehran:Ayatollah Mohsen Araki, secretary general of the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought in his speech at the fifth meeting of the Russia-Islamic World Strategic Vision Group in Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan, warning of the particular situation in the Middle East region and enemies’ threats against Islam and the entire region, reported TNA. He rebuked creation of different fake denominations in the world of Islam who merely recognize themselves and excommunicate all others. Secretary...
Address ‘dire’ human rights record of Saudi Arab...
( Saudi Arab )
Geneva:G20 leaders should pressure the kingdom to end human rights violations amid a new wave of arbitrary arrests and silencing of dissent, Amnesty said in a statement. Member states who are engaged in arms trade with Saudi Arabia must also reconsider their position and the extent to which their continued profitability makes them complicit in human rights violations committed by the kingdom in its war on Yemen, the group warned. “Saudi Arabia steps up to the G20 presidency amid a new wave...
Iraq’s parliament approves prime minister’s resignation...
( Iraq )
Baghdad:Iraq’s parliament has approved the resignation of Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi, which came after Iraq`s top cleric Grand Ayatollah Syed Ali al-Sistani urged the parliament to “reconsider” its support for the incumbent government. Iraqi legislators approved Abdul-Mahdi’s resignation during a parliament session held in the capital, Baghdad, on Sunday afternoon. Abdul-Mahdi’s administration is expected to take on a caretaker role until the largest bloc in the parliament agrees...
More than 77,000 youths of Jammu & Kashmir applied for ...
( Jammu and Kashmir )
Jammu:More than 77,000 youth have applied for the 5199 posts of Special Police Officers’, the recruitment of which is being held across the Jammu and Kashmir. “Jammu and Kashmir Police, despite its hectic schedule in handling law and order situation in the Union Territory, is conducting recruitment for 5199 posts of Special Police Officers’,” the Jammu and Kashmir Police said in a statement. Stressing that the recruitment offer of Special Police Officers’ (SPOs) by the...