Month: March 2019

JKSWDC organizes awareness prog on women’s rights

open view news desk JAMMU, MARCH 09: As a part of celebrations of International Women Day, the Jammu and Kashmir State Women’s Development Corporation (JKSWDC) organized an awareness programme at Government Degree College, R.S.Pura to sensitize the women about their rights and the benefits of various schemes being […]

Justice Masoodi inaugurates 2-day workshop for JJBs of Jammu division

open view news desk JAMMU, MARCH 09: Chairperson Selection-cum-Oversight Committee, Justice (Retd) Hasnain Masoodi inaugurated a two-day workshop here today for Juvenile Justice Boards of Jammu division. The workshop based on procedures under Juvenile Justice Laws is being organized by J&K Integrated Child Protection Services (JKICPS) in collaboration […]

National Lok Adalats held in both wings of J&K High Court

open view news desk JAMMU, MARCH 09: With an objective to reduce pendency of cases in courts, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court Legal Services Committee, today organized National Lok Adalats in both the Jammu and Srinagar wings of High Court simultaneously. The Lok Adalats were held under […]

SpaceX capsule back on Earth, paving way for new manned US flights

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean on Friday, completing a NASA demonstration mission that paves the way for the resumption of manned space flights from the US. After hours of suspense, the Dragon spacecraft touched down at 8:45 am (1345 GMT) some 230 miles […]

N. Korea may be preparing a missile or space launch: NPR

North Korea may be preparing for a missile or space launch, US news outlet NPR has reported, based on satellite image analysis of a key facility near Pyongyang. NPR said the images of Sanumdong, one of the facilities Pyongyang has used to produce inter-continental ballistic missiles and space […]

British government condemned after Islamic State teenager’s baby dies

LONDON  – A decision by Britain to strip a teenage girl of her citizenship after she joined Islamic State in Syria was described as a “stain on the conscience” of the government on Saturday after her three-week old baby died. Shamima Begum was stripped of her citizenship on […]

India waiting for UK reply after fugitive Nirav Modi’s video surfaces

NEW DELHI  – India said on Saturday it was waiting for Britain to respond to its request to extradite fugitive billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi, after London’s Telegraph newspaper reported that he was living in an upscale apartment in London. India had asked Britain in August to extradite Modi, […]

India says Pakistan hiding information by blocking access to bombing site

NEW DELHI  – India said on Saturday Pakistan had “plenty to hide” by preventing journalists from accessing the site of an air strike by Indian fighter jets inside Pakistan. Citing “security concerns”, Pakistani security officials on Thursday barred a Reuters team from climbing a hill in northeastern Pakistan […]

Omar furor reflects intensifying national debate over Israel

NEW YORK — For Congress, the allegations of anti-Semitism directed toward Rep. Ilhan Omar have no precedent. Yet on college campuses, in state legislatures and in many other venues nationwide, the polarized debate about Israel is a familiar conflict and likely to intensify in the months and years […]

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