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Srinagar, : A day-long consultative meeting was organized wherein Ulema and civil society members held deliberations on legal status and property rights of Half Widow. The event was organized by EHSAS at a local hotel here. During the meeting the Ulema from different school of thoughts participated and spoke about …

  Jaipur, May 20  A suspected agent of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was detained in a joint operation by Rajasthan Police Intelligence Wing and the army intelligence unit in Rajasthan, an official said on Saturday. Haji Khan was detained from his house in Kunjari village of Jaisalmer following intelligence inputs. …

    Srinagar, May 20  A day after the body of a villager was found in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, police on Saturday denied that security forces were involved in his killing. The body of Muhammad Yusuf Dar, a resident of Gadoora village, was on Friday found by locals. “Dar …

Sharif to attend ‘Arab Nato’ in Riyadh   Islamabad, May 20 Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will attend the first ever Arab-Islamic-American Summit being held in Riyadh on Sunday, a media report said on Saturday. The “Arab Nato” summit — being held to develop a security partnership against a growing …

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will chair the first meeting of the Chief Ministers of five States on India-China Border in Gangtok this afternoon. The states are Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh. During the meeting, Mr Singh will review the security issues in the border …

Srikakulam: Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is more interested in commissions from various projects than working for the welfare of farmers in the state, YSRCP president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy said. Addressing a massive public meeting in Hiramandalam area under Pathapatnam assembly constituency here on Friday, he said …

New York: A 58-year-old Indian man, who was in the US customs’ custody for entering the country illegally, has died after being hospitalised for shortness of breath. Atul Kumar Babubhai Patel was taken in custody by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Atlanta City Detention Centre for two days. …

New Delhi: Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar on Friday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi to update him about his upcoming biopic, “Sachin: A Billion Dreams”. The film captures Tendulkar’s cricketing and personal life in substantial detail. It also reveals few aspects of his life which have never been known before. The …

Vijayawada: Rs 683 crore was routed out of the country through hawala transactions with Visakhapatnam as the epicenter of the illegal operations, Andhra Pradesh DGP Sambasiva Rao said. Giving details of the scam and the investigation so far at a media interaction here on Friday, he said Rs 533 crore …

New Delhi: Key separatists, including Hurriyat chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani, are being probed for allegedly receiving money from Lashkar-e-Taiba and other sources in Pakistan to fund stone-pelting and violent protests in Jammu and Kashmir. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday said it has filed a case against Geelani …