PMO received GD Agrawal’s letters on Ganga, but did not take action: RTI

A month after environmentalist and Ganga activist Professor GD Agrawal’s death, a reply to an RTI query has revealed that the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) had reAgrawal’s letters demanding specific steps for the governing of the holy river but did not take any action. Agrawal, who was on a fast-unto-death over demands regarding the passage […]

India in Australia ready to beat a home team in turmoil

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — India’s cricketers have arrived in Australia ready to exploit a home team beset by turmoil on and off the field. A maiden test series win on Australian soil is the main aim of the tour, which kicks off Wednesday with a Twenty20 International in Brisbane and includes games across all three […]

AJK teenager killed in cross-LoC shelling by Indian troops

A teenage boy lost his life in Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s (AJK) Leepa valley after Indian troops resorted to heavy cross-border shelling, a private media outlet. According to reports, the deceased, eighteen-year-old Haroon, fell victim to the Indian shelling in Bijildhar village of Leepa Valley, located nearly 100 kilometres southeast of Muzaffarabad. Hattian Bala Deputy […]

Indian troops martyr 14 people in IoK, injure over 50 others

SRINAGAR: Indian troops martyred eight youth in Indian occupied Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Sunday, the Kashmir Media Service reported. The youth were martyred during a during a cordon and search operation, jointly launched by Indian Army’s 9 Rashtriya Rifle, Central Reserve Police Force and Special Operation Group in the district. The occupying forces also destroyed a house […]

Saddened to learn of train accident in India: PM Imran

At least 59 people were killed and 72 injured Friday evening after a crowd of Dussehra revellers that had spilled onto railway tracks while watching burning of Ravana effigy was run over by a train. ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday said he was ‘saddened’ to learn of a train accident in India’s Amritsar […]

Amritsar: Scores dead as train mows down crowd

 A speeding train ran over a crowd watching fireworks during a religious festival in northern India on Friday, killing at least 58 people and injuring dozens more, police said. The train failed to stop after the accident on the outskirts of Amritsar, a city in Punjab state, said the state governing Congress party politician, Pratap […]