Srinagar: Normal life was affected in Kashmir Valley on Wednesday due to a day-long shutdown called by hardline Hurriyat Conference headed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani on the third death anniversary of two Shopian women that had led to widespread protests. The shutdown call by the hardline Hurriyat faction was marked by thin traffic on roads in the city as many shops and business establishments remained shut. Schools across the...
03:12 PM, May 30, 2012
Washington: The Mumbai attack perpetrated by Pakistan-based LeT was an example of how terror outfits use latest available IT tools for their decisive motives, a top US commander said, highlighting the role of cyber space in such events. "All the mission planning (for Mumbai terrorist attack) was done via Google Earth. There was no investment in technology of (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) platforms or anything like that," US Marine Corps...
03:18 PM, May 16, 2012
Srinagar: Separatist leader Shabir Shah on Thursday said Kashmir Valley is incomplete without Pandits and those who migrated after the eruption of militancy should return to their homeland. "Kashmiri Pandits have always been a part of our culture and our history ... Kashmir is a garden and there are many flowers in here ...Kashmir is incomplete without the Pandits. Kashmiri Pandits should come back to their homes," Shah told reporters...
02:01 AM, May 04, 2012
Florida: Research In Motion Ltd gave developers a glimpse at its next-generation BlackBerry 10 smartphone on Tuesday and a set of software tools to create flashy apps to run on its new operating system, but investors were unimpressed and RIM's shares tumbled. At RIM's annual BlackBerry World conference in Orlando, new CEO Thorsten Heins took center stage to unveil a prototype of the devices RIM expects to launch later this...
10:46 AM, May 02, 2012
Toronto: Research In Motion's new chief executive unveiled a newly-designed BlackBerry smartphone prototype powered by a re-imagined operating system -the very software the company has pinned its future on. Thorsten Heins, who took the CEO job in January, on Tuesday revealed features of the BlackBerry 10 operating system running on a prototype device at the company's BlackBerry World conference in Orlando. He provided no update on the software's launch date....
10:11 AM, May 02, 2012
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has finally been given a clean chit in the death case of National Conference party worker Haji Yousuf. The chief minister was exonerated in a magisterial inquiry, which said that the party worker died of heart attack. Omar, however, refused to comment on the issue. He said, "The Justice Bedi Commission has not concluded its inquiry. So I will not be commenting...
09:21 AM, Apr 30, 2012
Hyderabad: Resistance group Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF), at its first conference here on April 22-23, will demand an end to the anti-Maoist Operation Green Hunt and discuss how to turn the current economic crisis in the country into a revolutionary opportunity. More than 300 delegates from across India, including writer and activist Arundhati Roy, historian Amit Bhattacharya, Maoist leader Tusharkanti Bhattacharya's wife Soma Sen and Dalit scholar Anand Teltumbde, will...
02:07 PM, Apr 19, 2012
Opposition CMs Narendra Modi, Naveen Patnaik and Jayalalithaa, in a royal snub to the Centre, held a parallel meet after accusing the Centre of trying to destroy the federal structure. ...
11:58 PM, Apr 16, 2012
Narendra Modi, Naveen Patnaik and Jayalalithaa held a parallel meet after criticising the Centre at the internal security conference. ...
09:39 PM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: Opposition chief ministers Narendra Modi, Naveen Patnaik and Jayalalithaa on Monday, in a royal snub to the Centre, held a parallel meet in New Delhi after accusing the Centre of trying to destroy the federal structure. United by their opposition to the proposed National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), the RPF Act and the BSF Act, arguing that they meddled with the states' powers, Modi and Patnaik met Jayalalithaa...
06:20 PM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: Hurriyat Conference (G) leader Syed Geelani on Saturday called for a bandh in Kashmir against the two-year jail term handed down to fellow separatist Ghulam Nabi Fai by a US court. Fai was charged with lobbying in the US government to affect American policy on Kashmir. He has also been accused of accepting money from the Pakistani intelligence agency, ISI, for the lobby work. ...
09:41 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Washington: Separatist Kashmiri leader and Chairman of the moderate Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umer Farooq is "supported and controlled" by ISI, a US Attorney has claimed before a court. Attorney Neil H MacBride made the claim before the US District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, ahead of the scheduled sentencing of Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai who had set up an organisation Kashmiri American Council in the US to promote the separatist cause....
06:24 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Srinagar: The counsel for the family of deceased National Conference worker Syed Mohammad Yusuf on Wednesday visited Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's residence in Srinagar. Mushtaq Ahmad Dar, counsel for the family of Yusuf, who died in police custody last year, visited the camp office inside Omar's residence. Dar's visit to the Chief Minister's house came after Justice (Retd) H S Bedi, probing the circumstances leading to the death of Yusuf,...
07:13 PM, Mar 14, 2012
Srinagar: The Justice (retired) H S Bedi Commission on Monday granted permission to the counsel of the family of deceased National Conference worker to visit the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's residence, police hospital and Crime Branch headquarters. Justice Bedi granted permission to Mushtaq Ahmad Dar, counsel for the family of Syed Mohammad Yusuf, who died in police custody in 2011, to visit the camp office inside Chief Minister's residence, the...
07:16 PM, Mar 12, 2012
Jammu: The ruling National Conference on Friday batted for revocation of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in Jammu and Kashmir in a phased manner. "We call for revocation of AFSPA from Jammu and Kashmir in phased manner," senior NC leader Mustafa Kamal said while speaking on the motion of thanks on Governor's address in the Assembly. He said removing security bunkers from different areas of the state would help...
11:11 PM, Feb 24, 2012
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