Media should raise voice against AFSPA
byNew Delhi: The Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), which gives sweeping powers to the armed forces, has been in force in India’s northeast for…
Law & Policy
Fertiliser firms call for urgent reforms in urea policy, raising prices
byNew Delhi: Industry body Fertiliser Association of India (FAI) Friday called for urgently increasing urea prices as well as for reforms to the government’s urea…
Omar Abdullah’s ‘grand alliance’ is vindicated in council poll (Kashmir Newsletter)
bySrinagar: The clean sweep by the ruling National Conference (NC)-Congress alliance, which won the polls for all the four legislative council seats Wednesday, has dispelled…
Himachal police guards turn thieves: 28 Kg Charas, 4 Kg opium goes missing
byShimla: On a day when the Washington state in USA legalized the use of marijuana, a strange case of high quality marijuana (Malana Cream Charas)…
Yasin Malik arrested during JKLF march in Srinagar
bySrinagar: Police arrested Muhammad Yasin Malik, chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) following post-prayer protests in uptown Maisuma locality of summer capital…
SP and BSP to rescue, government wins FDI vote in Rajya Sabha
byNew Delhi: The government today won the vote in the Rajya Sabha on foreign direct investment (FDI) in retail, two days after it sailed through…
Revisiting a historic Ayodhya – secular and diverse
byNew Delhi: A 16th century historical work tells of an Afghan army which went out of Ayodhya – which was controlled by local chiefs –…
Now, Indian boxing federation suspended
byNew Delhi: The International Boxing Association (AIBA) Friday provisionally suspended Indian Amateur Boxing Federation (IABF) for possible manipulation of its elections, a move that comes…
White House petition on 1984 anti-Sikh violence gains support
byWashington: A White House petition seeking recognition of the November 1984 anti-Sikh violence in India as “genocide” has crossed the threshold of 25,000 signatures for…
ITBP moving out of Chamba, State Police incapable of guarding borders
byChamba: The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), that incurs huge expenditure every year to safeguard the 226 kilometer long border between Jammu and Himachal in…