Four Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers were killed in an encounter with Naxals in Chhattisgarh on Thursday.
Two other personnel were injured in the encounter, which took place in Kanker district, police said.
Earlier it was reported one BSF soldier had been killed while two others were injured.
United Arab Emirates (UAE) has conferred its highest civilian honour — Zayed Medal — on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Modi received the honour in appreciation of his efforts in maintaining strategic ties with the UAE.
UAE president Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has conferred on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Zayed Medal, the highest decoration awarded to kings, presidents and heads of states.
According to reports the award came in appreciation of Narendra Modi’s role in consolidating the long-standing friendship and joint strategic cooperation between the two countries.
On PM Modi receiving the highest civilian honour in UAE, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, said, The Indian Prime Minister had played a pivotal role in enhancing bilateral ties to the level of comprehensive strategic relations.
“By granting our dear friend the Indian Prime Minister the Zayed Medal, we express our appreciation for his role and efforts in developing friendly relations and extending bridges of cooperation between the UAE and the Republic of India in various fields, Sheikh Mohamed added.
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A Border Security Force(BSF) soldier was killed and two others were injured in an encounter with Naxals in Chattisgarh’s Kanker area.
According to ANI “One BSF jawan has lost his life and two are injured in an encounter with Maoists in Kanker.”
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Following reports of suspicious movement, a high alert was sounded near the Vaishno Devi shrine and adjoining villages of Katra area of Jammu.
As per reports a search operation has been launched in the area after reports of suspicious movement.
The pilgrimage at Vaishno Devi shrine however was going on smoothly.
Srinagar: District administration Baramulla on Thursday said that 7 educational institutes have been identified as accommodation for forces personnel incoming for LS Polls and shall remain closed from April 5-12 for educational purposes.
The institutes include the campus of Agricultural University in Wadoora area of Sopore. The premises of the educational institutions will be used as ‘accommodation for the incoming forces for the Parliamentary Elections.’
The institutions include SKUAST Wadoora, Degree college cum Hr Secondary school Hadipora, Govt, Hr secondary school Edipora, Govt, Boys HR Sec School Sopora, Govt, Girls Hr Sec school Dangiwacha, Govt, Degree College Sopore and Govt, Hr Sec School Dangiwacha.(KNO)
Thrissur(Ker), Apr 4 (PTI) A 22-year-old engineering student was Thursday burnt alive inside her house here by a man who had been allegedly stalking her, police said.
Hearing her cries, some neighbours and relatives staying nearby rushed to the house and found the victim on flames in the bathroom, initial reports said.
The accused, Neethish (32), is suspected to have gained entry into the house through the backdoor, K Rajan, a local MLA said.
Only the victim and her grandmother were in the house when the incident took place, he said.
Only last month a jilted lover had burnt to death a college student in Thiruvalla.
Srinagar
A Muzaffarabad based woman was refused to cross over from the Attari-Wagah border to Pakistan despite being notified in advance that she can return to her country easily, by the Indian authorities, Pakistan media reported.
Kubra Gillani, 27, has been stuck in Jammu and Kashmir since November 2018 — since the dissolution of her marriage with a local.
On Feb 27, the Foreign Ministry had detailed the Pakistani mission in Delhi to take up the matter of her repatriation with the concerned Indian authorities and share the update with the ministry on an urgent basis.
The Foreign Ministry’s attention had been drawn to the case by rights activist Ansar Burney, who had also called the issue to notice at the offices of President Arif Alvi and Pakistan administered Kashmir Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider, Pakistan based newspaper Dawn reported.
Earlier, Gillani had subsequently arrived in New Delhi from Srinagar on April 1 to collect her travel documents from the Pakistan High Commission for the crossing.
The same day, the Pakistan mission wrote to India’s immigration officer and the deputy commissioner customs at Attari (Amritsar) to inform them that Gillani will be travelling to Pakistan on April 3, and that they should facilitate her exit via the Attari border, the report mentioned.
Gillani had reached Attari at about 10 am on Wednesday, but the Indian authorities disallowed her from crossing and instead sent her back.
“Sir, they [Indians] have sent me back. Nothing has happened. Sir I tried my best but they did not listen to me. Sir you tell me what should I do where should I go now,” Dawn quoted Geelani saying in a voice message to Burney from Attari.
Burney condemned the conduct of the Indian authorities, noting that Gillani was a Kashmiri by birth and wanted to return from one part of Kashmir to the other.
“However, instead of assisting a desolate girl, Indian authorities are not only compounding her misery but also deriving pleasure from their inhumanity,” he said.
He said Gillani possessed a valid passport and other requisite documents issued by the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi and there was, therefore, no justification for the Indian authorities to send her back from the Attari border. “Their act is very painful and condemnable.”
“I was planning to celebrate her return but they [Indian authorities] have dashed my hopes,” Parveen Kazmi, Gillani’s mother, told the Dawn correspondent.
“My daughter is by herself in an unfamiliar place. How will she be able to manage the situation? Where will she arrange the money to undertake another trip [to Attari]?” Dawn quoted Kazmi as saying.
Burney said he would prepare a petition on behalf of Gillani to help her seek justice from courts in Jammu and Kashmir or India. “Rest assured, we will not leave her and others like her unattended and stranded,” he told the Dawn.
Gillani had married Altaf Rather, a resident of the Kokernag area of held Kashmir, in Muzaffarabad in March 2010 at the age of 19.
Rather was among hundreds of young Kashmiris who had crossed the Line of Control (LoC) and taken refuge in Pakistan administered Kashmir after 1990, the report said.
In 2014, the couple had moved to Jammu and Kashmir via Nepal under the ‘rehabilitation policy’ announced by the J&K government for “former militants and their families.”
Rather had divorced Gillani on November 30 last year. Her ordeal was noticed earlier this year after she uploaded a video message on social media, wherein she revealed that there were more than 200 other women from PaK facing a situation similar to hers,Dawn reported.
Recently, when the government had returned captured Indian pilot Abhinandan as a goodwill gesture, Gillani had uploaded another video message urging Prime Minister Imran Khan to seek repatriation of stranded women from India in return for his act of kindness, the report mentioned.
Via Dawn/KL
Srinagar
Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday lashing out at BJP President Amit Shah and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over AFSPA said that PDP has no intention of doing anything with AFSPA & BJP didn’t break the coalition because of AFSPA.
Taking to social networking site Twitter Omar wrote: “Why are @AmitShah & the PDP lying to people about AFSPA? PDP has no intention of doing anything with AFSPA & BJP didn’t break the coalition because of AFSPA. This is from Ms Mufti’s Assembly speech as CM in Feb 2018, just a few months before the BJP unceremoniously dismissed our elected CM via a phone call from the Governor.”
The former chief minister was reacting on the separate statements of BJP President and Peoples Democratic Party on Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFPSA).
Srinagar: Yesterday night, a speeding car hit a married couple on a scooter near Abu Baker Masjid, Chanapora area of Srinagar resulting in the death of the driver, while his wife has been critically injured, police said.
An eyewitness, Nissar Ahmad, told that a speedy car hit the scooter when a police vehicle was trying to catch them. “I was standing outside the Masjid when I saw a speedy car (Hyundai i-10 Grand) coming in my direction. The police vehicle was behind them, probably trying to catch them. When they reach near the masjid, the car hit the scooter, resulting in the killing of a person.”
The driver of the scooter, Lokesh Bikas, a resident of Nepal, who was running a restaurant in the locality, died on the spot while her wife has been shifted to the hospital. “Her condition was also critical,” he said.
The station police officer of Chanapora, Owais Geelani told that they have arrested the driver and two other boys who were in the car.
However, the police have lodged an FIR in the case and denied that they were after the car.
Via The Kashmir Walla
Srinagar: Former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti termed the government order to ban civilian movement on Kashmir highway ‘a diktat of Martial law’
The PDP president while taking to her Twitter handle took a jibe at the order saying the administration was adamant on ensuring collective punishment for Kashmiris, “Last I checked, we were a democracy. But this sounds like a diktat of Martial Law.After bringing Kashmir to the brink, the administration is adamant on ensuring collective punishment for Kashmiris.” She wrote.
On Wednesday the state government notified specified days in a week for the movement of government forces from Srinagar to Jammu. During these days, no civilian traffic would be allowed on National Highway.