Officials blow off 9 militants’ houses in KashmirKochi: A total of nine houses of terror suspects were blown off by the authorities for their alleged involvement in Pahalgam attack killing 27 people in Kashmir, India Today reported.The houses demolished includedthat of three active terrorists in different districts of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday. The houses …
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Blow to ED on National Herald case
Kochi: A Delhi court on Friday refused to issue notices to Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul Gandhi, and others in the alleged National Herald money laundering case, media reports said.The court directed the Directorate ofEnforcement (ED) to produce sufficient documents in support of the charges.The ED prayed to the court to issue notices …
Terror suspects houses flattened
Kochi: Two houses of terrorists,Adil Thokar and Asif Shaikh, allegedly involved in the Pahalgam terror attack, were demolished on Thursday night, media reports said.Adil Thokar’s house was in Anantnag and Asif’s at Awantipora.Thokar, who legally travelled to Pakistan in 2018 through the Attari-Wagah border, allegedly received terrorist training before returning to Jammu and Kashmir in …
India tests navy’s preparedness
Kochi: Indian Navy successfully carried out a precision cooperative engagement of a sea-skimming target in Arabian sea as part of testing Navy’s defence capabilities.The latest indigenous guided missile destroyer INS Surat was used for the exercise, Indian Navy posted on the X.“#IndianNavy’s latest indigenous guided missile destroyer #INSSurat successfully carried out a precision cooperative engagement …
India’s move shocks Pak
May 1,Kochi: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called a meeting of the National Security Committee on Thursday in the wake of five key steps taken by India after the Kashmir attack claiming 26 lives.Pakistan Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar, who is also the foreign minister, said on X.India suspended the Indus Water Treaty and …
Threat to Gambhir
Kochi: Head coach of national cricket team, Gautam Gambhir has reportedly received death threats from “ISIS Kashmir,” media reports said on Thursday.Gambhir, who is an ex-party MP, lodged a complaint with Delhi Police on Wednesday.He formally requested the registration of a First Information Report (FIR), media reports quoting Rajinder Nagar Police Station and the DCP …
Tourists’ flow into Kashmir
Kochi: Undeterred by the terror attack in Kashmir, tourists continue to flow into Kashmir as per the records released by cable car operator JKCCC on Wednesday, media reports said.The Jammu and Kashmir Cable Car Corporation (JKCCC) said that it will issue full refunds for all unused (“No Show”) and unconsumed tickets for April 22 and …
Modi suspends Saudi trip
Kochi: India Prime Minister Narendra Modisuspended his overseas trip to rush back home in the wake of yesterday’s Kashmir terror attack, media reports said.Modi arrived on Wednesday morningNational Security Adviser Ajit Doval briefed PM Modi on the terrorist attack which claimed at Least 27 people, mostly tourists.Modi took a briefing at the airport with Foreign …
Terror attack in Kashmir
Kochi: Over 20 people were reportedly killed in a terror attack in the Baisaran Valley area of Pahalgam in the Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir, Times of India said.Most of those targetted were tourists in visiting the meadows also known as “mini-Switzerland,” the reports said.The area is accessible only on foot or horseback due …
US VP Vance lands
Kochi:The United States Vice President J D Vance, wife Usha Vance and three children arrived in New Delhi on Monday morning.Vance led a team of key members of the US administration.Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw received them at the airport.Vance’s visit, until April 24, is expected to focus on enhancing strategic, economic, and defence ties between …
Padmashri Dr Mathew passes away
Kochi: Noted Interventional cardiologist Padmashri Dr Mathew Samuel Kalarickal, 77, known as the father of angioplasty in India passed away in Chennai on Friday, media reports saud.Dr Mathew had specialized in coronary angioplasty, carotid stenting, coronary stenting and rotablator atherectomy.Born on January 6, 1948, in Kottayam in Kerala, Dr Mathew chose to pursue medical profession …
CASA impleads in Waqf case
Kochi: Christian Alliance and Association (CASA) for Social Action has extended its support to the new Wakf Act which has been challenged by many including the Muslim League in Supreme Court.CASA is the first outfit from Kerala to implead in the case to extend its support to the Act passed by the Parliament.CASA said the …
HC asks cops to book Ponmudy
Kochi: The Madras High Court on Thursday directed the Tamil Nadu police to book Forest Minister K Ponmudy for his controversial remarks against women and the faithful, media reports said.The court wondered why no action was taken against the minister for his comments made last week.Ponmudy was sacked as deputy general secretary of the DMK …
Judge claims plot to trap him
Kochi: Delhi High Court Judge Yashwant Varma said he had no idea of the cash seized from his residence while replying to High Court Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya who was asked by the Supreme Court of India to probe into the matter, media reports said.Justice Yashwant Varma claimed that the store room where the …
Huge cash in HC Judge house
Kochi: Supreme Court collegium members have urged Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna to initiate an in-house inquiry against a Delhi high court judge discovery of unaccounted cash at his official residence, media reports said.While a unanimous decision was taken to transfer the judge back to the Allahabad High Court, two judges argued that …
Cops arrest 51 in Nagpur riots
Kochi: Fahim Khan, president of the Minorities Democratic Party (MDP),and 50 others were booked in connection with the Nagpur riots, media reports said.They were produced before a city court which remanded them to police custody until March 21.Over 30 people including police personnel were injured in the riot.Khan, a key suspect in the case, is …
BJP leader’s kin nabbed
Kochi: A BJP leader’s brother was arrested in a fund misappropriation case in Maharashtra, media reports said.Javed Aazam, younger brother of BJP’s former Maharashtra secretary Hyder Azam was held by sleuths probing alleged misappropriation of Rs 122 crore cash from New India Cooperative Bank.The sleuths of the city Economic Offences Wing (EOW), probing the alleged …
Tharoor hails India’s stand on Ukraine
Kochi: Disregarding the caveat issued by the Congress, Shashi Tharoor, MP, has said India was uniquely placed to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine.Admitting that he was wrong in opposing India’s stand on Ukraine-Russia conflict in February 2022, Tharoor said “India has actually a Prime Minister who can hug both the president of Ukraine and …
Violence erupts in Nagpur
Kochi: Violence erupted in central Nagpur on Monday evening following rumours about burning of a religious book, media reports said.Protesters pelted stones and took to arson. Security forces used tear gas and batons to disperse the crowd. Four persons were injured in the unrest.The tensions started after a group staged a protest demanding the removal …
NCB seizes MDMA of Rs 88 cr
Kochi: Four persons were arrestedfor transporting “methamphetamine (MDMA) tablets worth Rs 88 crore” in Assam’s Imphal and Guwahati zones on Sunday.The accused involved in it were part of the “international drug cartel”.Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said that the government will show“No mercy for drug cartels. Accelerating the Modi govt’s march to build …