Jammu, Sep 12 (UNI) One terrorist has been eliminated while an army jawan martyred and three other security personnel including Special Police Officer (SPO) sustained injuries in an ensuing gunfight in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir. Official spokesman said that one terrorist killed while an Army jawan martyred, three others including one police SPO…
Shimla, Sep 12 (UNI) AICC general Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday said the Union Government should declare the Himachal Pradesh rain disaster as a national calamity and refrain from “discriminating” against Congress-ruled states. Gandhi was on a visit to the rain-affected parts of Kullu, Manali and Mandi districts during the day. Priyanka said she…
Jammu, Sep 12 (UNI) Urging the industry partners to focus on creating a culture that encourages Research and Development, based on skilled human resources, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday has called upon the domestic defence manufacturers to invest more in this field for India to keep up pace with the continuously-evolving world. Addressing the…
Srinagar, Sep 11 (UNI) Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti on Monday said the central government’s decision to lift additional duties on apples, walnuts, and almonds imported from the United States would devastate local growers in Jammu and Kashmir. Last week, Union Finance Ministry, in a notification announced the removal of additional duties on…
Jammu, Sep 11 (UNI) Vice Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen MV Suchindra Kumar on Monday declared open the three-day North Tech Symposium jointly organised by Northern Command SIDM and IIT Jammu. The Symposium will conclude on September 13. The event has invited a lot of brilliant minds and state of the art defence technologies…
Srinagar, Sep 11 (UNI) Security forces defused an Improvised Explosives Device (IED) along the national highway in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Monday morning, officials said. Army said a major terror attack was averted with the recovery of the IED on the busy highway. Officials said a suspect object was found in the Hanjivera…
Srinagar, Sep 8 (UNI) Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and National Conference President Farooq Abdullah on Friday said he does not see any difference between ‘Bharat’ and ‘India’. There has been a buzz in the country that the union government was contemplating for changing the name of India to Bharat. The buzz gained ground…
Ankara, (UNI) The Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) killed a senior member of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria, Turkey’s Anadolu news agency reported Thursday. The YPG member, whose name was Zulfiye Binbir, was a “finance official” for the YPG in charge of the group’s funds, the state-run news agency quoted anonymous…
Jammu, (UNI) Security forces have recovered arms and ammunition along with logistic items from the Mandi belt of Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, a Defence spokesman said here on Thursday. The spokesman said after successfully foiling an infiltration bid and neutralising two terrorists near Mandi in Poonch district close to the Line of Control,…
Srinagar, (UNI) Jammu and Kashmir Police arrested a “hybrid” militant of “The Resistance Front” in Srinagar, police said on Thursday. The “hybrid” militant of TRF, believed to be a shadow group of Lashkar-e-Taiba was identified by police as Mohammad Yawar Rangrez, a resident of Firdousabad Batamaloo Srinagar. According to police “hybrid” militants are those who…
