Hurriyat leader Geelani booked under FEMA

New Delhi (IANS) Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Geelani, who advocates Jammu and Kashmir's merger with Pakistan, has been booked under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) for illegally possessing foreign exchange of US $10,000, the…

'Yeddy Diaries': Congress demands Lokpal probe

New Delhi (IANS) Days ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, a political controversy erupted on Friday after a media report titled 'The Yeddy Diaries' published by news magazine 'The Caravan' alleged that former Karnataka Chief Minister B.S.…

Former cricketer Gautam Gambhir joins BJP

New Delhi (IANS) Former cricketer Gautam Gambhir on Friday joined the BJP in the presence of Union Ministers Arun Jaitley and Ravi Shankar Prasad ahead of the coming Lok Sabha elections.
 

Congress separating terror from Pakistan: BJP

New Delhi (IANS) The BJP on Friday accused the Congress of attempting to "separate terror from Pakistan" and said that while on one hand, it blamed the Narendra Modi government for the airstrikes in Pakistan, on the other, it was handing…

Two gunfights underway in J&K

Srinagar (IANS) Two gunfights were underway in Jammu and Kashmir's Sopore and Shopian districts on Friday between militants and security forces, police said.

In Sopore, firing exchanges took place in Warpora area, the same site…

Modi stays with Varanasi, Shah's LS bid from Gandhinagar

New Delhi (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will fight again from his Varanasi constituency while BJP President Amit Shah will make his debut in Lok Sabha polls from Gandhinagar, BJP leader J.P. Nadda announced on Thursday.

The Gandhinagar…

Three gunfights on in Valley, 1 militant killed

Srinagar (IANS) A militant was killed and two policemen and a civilian injured on Thursday as security forces and militants battled each other in three places in the Kashmir Valley, authorities said.

While the first gunfight erupted in Sopore…

Soldier killed in Pakistan firing on LoC

Jammu (IANS) An Indian soldier was killed on Thursday in Pakistani firing on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district.

Defence Ministry sources said the Pakistan Army resorted to unprovoked shelling…

9 sentenced to life in Dinakaran arson attack case

Chennai (IANS) The Madras High Court's Madurai bench on Thursday sentenced, to life imprisonment, nine people convicted in the 2007 Dinakaran newspaper burning case which left three persons dead.

The court also sentenced seven…

CRPF trooper kills 3 colleagues, shoots himself

Jammu (IANS) A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper shot dead three colleagues before shooting and seriously wounding himself in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district, police said on Thursday.

CRPF Constable Ajit Singh killed his…