‘Ensure Safety of Kashmiris across India’: SC issues notice to Centre, 11 states

The court said the Union home ministry will issue advisories to all the state governments to ensure the protection of Kashmiris in their respective states. It asked the chiefs of the state police to ensure the safety of Kashmiris. The Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice to the central government and 11 states, seeking their response on a plea for its intervention to prevent the alleged attacks on Kashmiri students after last week’s terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama. The notice has been issued to Jammu and Kashmir,…

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Lookout notice for three men involved in anti-national sloganeering

The J&K Police have issued a lookout notice for three suspects who allegedly raised anti-national slogans outside GGM Science College in Jammu on February 11. The police have released the photographs of the three men and have sought support from the public to identify them and inform the cops accordingly. Recently, the situation outside GGM Science College, Jammu, had turned ugly after a few miscreants allegedly raised anti-national slogans, evoking sharp reaction from the students. Reacting to these slogans, a few students had allegedly thrown stones on the stranded passengers…

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Protests after 3.30pm against rising mob attacks on Kashmiri’s: Traders Union

With no let up in mob attacks against Kashmiris in various states following a recent militant attack in Pulwama, various trade organisations have called for a complete protest shutdown after 3.30pm in Lal Chowk and Downtown areas on Friday. These organisations, among others, include both factions of the Kashmir economic alliance (KEA), all factions of the Kashmir traders and manufacturers’ federation (KTMF), the Kashmir chamber of commerce and industry (KCCI), Shehar-e-Khaas traders’ coordination committee and Valley-based transporters. Earlier, the trade bodies held a meeting wherein the decision to observe the…

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Wildfire​ spreading badly, Now Kashmiri students attacked in Maharashtra

In the latest incident of assault on Kashmiri students, the students from Kashmir studying in a college in Yavatmal were attacked by members of Yuva Sena, the youth wing of Shiv Sena, police said Thursday.The attack happened Wednesday night, police said.The students were also threatened, they added.A video of the incident has gone viral on the social media and a case has been registered at the Yavatmal police station. The students were attacked around 10 pm outside their rented accommodation on Waghapur Road, police said. The students were from the…

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We support UN resolutions on Kashmir: Saudi Foreign​ Minister Adel al-Jubeir

Saudi Arabia’s minister of state for foreign affairs Adel al-Jubeir has that his country backs the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions on Kashmir and that India and Pakistan should hold talks to preserve the Kashmiri interests.The top Saudi official made the remarks during an interview with India Today in New Delhi where Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman was on a day long visit to India. “We have said there are UN resolutions with regard to Kashmir that Saudi Arabia supports,” Jubeir told senior journalist Rajdeep Sardesai. Al-Jubeir said…

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India to stop water flow to Pakistan: Nitin Gadkari

India has decided to stop the flow of its share of water to Pakistan from rivers under the Indus water treaty, a move seen as an immediate fallout of a militant attack that killed 40 central reserve police force (CRPF) personnel in southern Kashmir’s Pulwama district on February 14.Water resources minister Nitin Gadkari tweeted to convey the decision of the government to stop India’s share of water flowing to Pakistan. But the actual implementation of the decision may take up to six years as dams as high as 100 metres…

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What will be the worth of that World Cup trophy if you haven’t beaten Pakistan: Aakash Chopra

Former India cricketer Aakash Chopra has given his opinion on the increasing calls for India to boycott their World Cup group stage match against Pakistan on June 16 at Old Trafford in Manchester. In the aftermath of the dastardly Pulwama attack that claimed the lives of 40 CRPF jawans, the general consensus in the country is that the ‘Men in Blue’ shouldn’t play against Pakistan at this year’s showpiece tournament in the UK. Chopra, on the other hand, has said that India isn’t a ‘regressive’ country and therefore, politics and…

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3 Kg beef can be traced but not 350 kg RDX: Haroon Yusuf

Delhi Congress working president Haroon Yusuf on Thursday created a controversy by alleging that three kg beef could be traced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi but not 350 kg RDX, referring to the Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed. Senior BJP leader and Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad termed the statement “scandalous and irresponsible” “@narendramodi Ji can trace 3 kg of beef but cannot trace 350 kg of RDX #ModiFailsNationalSecurity(sic),” Yusuf alleged in a tweet. He later defended his tweet. “What I have said is reality.…

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