Islamabad/New Delhi: Pakistan on Tuesday accused India of violation of its airspace but the Indian Air Force said it appeared to be a "technical violation" as its aircraft on a routine training sortie seemed to have flown close to the border.
A Pakistan Air Force (PAF) spokesman said in Islamabad that two high speed Indian aircraft "violated Pakistani airspace by three nautical miles" at about 10.40 am in Attari-Fazilka sector.
"The aircraft stayed inside Pakistani airspace for about two minutes," the spokesman said in a statement.
The PAF initiated prompt tactical action and scrambled two fighter aircraft to challenge the "intruders", the spokesman added....
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04:35 AM, Jun 12, 2013
Jammu: Pakistani troops fired on Indian posts along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, the second ceasefire violation in the past four days. Pakistan troops opened small arms firing on Indian posts in Nangi Tikri forward area along LoC in Krishnagati sub-sector of Poonch on Monday night, Defence PRO S N Acharya said. He said the firing continued for 10 minutes from 8:10 PM...
01:51 PM, Jun 11, 2013
Jammu: Army on Saturday called off search operation in the dense forest areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district, where a Junior Commissioned Officer was killed when Pakistan troops opened heavy fire on Indian posts on Friday. "Massive search operation which was launched yesterday (Friday) by the Army troops, have been called off this afternoon," a defence source said. Nothing has been found during the search operation...
05:00 PM, Jun 08, 2013
Srinagar: An Indian Army soldier was killed when Pakistani troops opened fire in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday. The Indian Army retaliated by firing back at the Pakistani soldiers, but the gunbattle has stopped now. Pakistan generally resorts to such firing to provide cover to terrorists and push them across the border. This is fourth ceasefire violation by Pakistan in the past two weeks. The area has...
04:19 PM, Jun 07, 2013
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday slapped a Rs 8,600 crore show-cause notice on construction major Emaar MGF Land Ltd and its sister firms for alleged forex rules violation, the biggest such penal action in country's real estate sector. The agency, which began an investigation in 2010 with regard to the group bringing in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), alleged that the firm has violated the rules stipulated by the...
10:54 PM, Jun 04, 2013
Srinagar: In yet another ceasefire violation, Pakistani troops fired at Indian positions along the Line of Control (LoC) in Nawgam sector of Kashmir valley but there was no causality. "Pakistani troops opened firing on our positions this evening, using small firearms and RPGs in Nawgam sector," an Army spokesman said. He said the Indian Army exercised total restraint and did not retaliate to the unprovoked firing from the other side....
09:32 PM, May 31, 2013
Kolkata: CPI(M) on Friday defied a ban on law violation programmes in the metropolis and staged a protest demanding return of money to those defrauded by the Saradha chitfund scam among others. "The government is breaking the law every day and asking us not to hold law violations. The government is taking away democratic and political rights of opposition parties," Leader of the Opposition and CPI(M) leader Surjya Kanta Mishra...
06:24 PM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday issued notice to the Kerala government over alleged deaths of several infants due to malnutrition in Attappadi area of the state. The rights panel has given six weeks time to the state government to submit a report in this regard. According to an NHRC statement, the commission has issued a notice to Chief Secretary, Kerala after taking suo motu cognisance of...
08:59 PM, May 28, 2013
Jammu: In the second ceasefire violation in less than a week, Pakistani troops on Monday pounded Indian posts along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch sector with rockets and Pika rifle rounds. There was no loss of life or damage to property on the Indian side, PRO Defence SN Acharya told PTI. "Pakistani soldiers fired 25 rounds of Pika rifles and 5 Rocket Projectile Grenades on our...
10:25 PM, May 27, 2013
New Delhi: Pakistan Army on Friday violated the ceasefire between the two countries and fired at Indian positions in Tutmari Gali sector in Jammu and Kashmir. "The Pakistan Army started firing at our positions in Tutmarigali in Kashmir along the Line of Control at 1915 hours today and our troops also retaliated in equal measure," Army sources said in Delhi. The Pakistani Army also used mortars and small arms to...
03:33 AM, May 25, 2013
New Delhi: A Brigadier and two jawans were injured on Friday night when Pakistani troops opened fire on Indian positions violating the ceasefire along the Line of Control in Tutmari Gali sector in Jammu and Kashmir. Brigadier Sanjeev Langar suffered minor injuries in the firing along with the two jawans, Army sources said. "The Pakistan Army started firing at our positions in Tutmarigali in Kashmir along the Line of Control...
11:35 PM, May 24, 2013
Washington: A US-based Sikh group on Monday said that it will challenge the decision of an American district court last week to dismiss alleged human rights violations case against Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. The Sikh for Justice (SFJ) had filed the case of alleged human rights violations against Badal in 2012, but it was dismissed by a US district court in Wisconsin last Friday. The group said it...
11:40 AM, May 20, 2013
Buenos Aires: Jorge Rafael Videla, an austere former army commander who led Argentina during the bloodiest period of a "dirty war" dictatorship and was unrepentant about kidnappings and murders ordered by the state, died on Friday at age 87. Videla was the first president to head the military junta that "disappeared" thousands of suspected leftists from 1976 to 1983, and he spent his final years behind bars for human rights...
11:57 AM, May 18, 2013
Washington: A US court in Wisconsin has reserved its decision in the alleged human rights violation case against Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal after completing hearing in the matter. The district court had taken up a petition filed by New York-based rights body 'Sikh for Justice', which had alleged that Badal committed "grave human rights violations" against the community in India. Attorneys appearing for Badal have argued that he...
10:36 AM, May 14, 2013
Srinagar: An infiltration attempt was foiled in the Samba area around Jammu border on Tuesday morning. Gunfire was reportedly exchanged between infiltrators and security personnel for 30 minutes. A string of clashes along the 742-km LoC last month marked the worst violations of ceasefire that was put in place by India and Pakistan in late 2003. ...
08:44 AM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: Enforcement Directorate may have seized assets worth Rs 2,357 crore in 2012-13, a seven fold increase from previous fiscal, but it sees the cases of money laundering, forex violations and other economic offences probed by it as just the "tip of the iceberg". The ED has stepped up its prosecution in money laundering cases and is planning to take steps, including filling 1,400 posts, to go full throttle...
05:20 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday questioned sacked CWG organizing committee chief Suresh Kalmadi and recorded his statement in connection with its probe into alleged money laundering in the run up to the 2010 sporting extravaganza. The agency questioned Kalmadi for the second time in less than a month. He was questioned in a separate case of alleged forex violations on March 25 by the agency. Kalmadi has denied...
03:56 AM, Apr 18, 2013
Washington: The Obama administration on Friday designated 18 people under a US law requiring a list of alleged human rights abusers in Russia, in a move that could cause more friction in US ties with Moscow. The list includes 16 people directly related to the case of Russian whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky, who died in his jail cell in 2009, as well as two others, a senior State Department official said...
11:42 AM, Apr 13, 2013
Panaji: Nine legislators who violated traffic rules last week and rode to the State Legislative Assembly complex in Panaji without wearing helmet, will be issued challans, a senior official said on Monday. Transport Director Arun Desai said the Enforcement wing of the transport department has already procured the documents of the bikes which were rode by the legislators. On Friday, the erring legislators arrived at the Assembly session, riding five...
12:24 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Mathura: The wife of slain soldier Lance Naik Hemraj was duped of Rs 10 lakh on Friday in the presence of her brother-in-law and a relative near a petrol pump in the outskirts of Kosi town area. In her complaint, Dharmvati, the widow of Hemraj said that one Amit Kumar, who claimed that he was an Army officer and sent by the Army Headquarters, approached her at her native Shernagar...
07:50 AM, Apr 06, 2013
