open view news desk JAMMU SEPTEMBER 13: Divisional Commissioner, Sanjeev Verma today asked the concerned departments to take strict action against the encroachers of state land. The Div Com issued these directions while chairing a meeting held to review the anti encroachment drive initiated by the district administration. […]
open view news desk SRINAGAR, SEPTEMBER 13- The Government today accorded sanction to the appointment of 263 candidates to J&K Administrative Services, J&K Police (Gazetted) and J&K Accounts (Gazetted) Service under direct recruitment through the combined competitive examinations 2016. Among these, 257 are appointed to the Joiner Scale […]
Working around the clock, thousands of firefighters are struggling to contain smog-belching blazes raging across rainforests and farmland in Indonesia, one of the frontlines against fires blamed for aggravating global warming. Those leading the response are short on equipment, with some wearing just flimsy masks and rubber boots […]
New Delhi, Sep 14: Fringe right-wing group Hindu Sena on Saturday blackened the signage for Babar Road in Bengali Market here, demanding that it be renamed after a “great Indian personality”. Babur was a Mughal emperor who invaded India. “We demand that the government rename the road which is […]
Italy on Saturday agreed to allow rescue ship Ocean Viking to disembark 82 migrants on Lampedusa, in a reversal of the hardline policy under the country’s ex-interior minister Matteo Salvini. Far-right leader Salvini was forced out of office last month after bringing the government down, and the new […]
Zimbabwe gave former leader Robert Mugabe a state funeral on Saturday with African leaders paying tribute to a man they lauded as a liberation hero but whose 37-year rule was defined by repression and economic turmoil. Mugabe, who died in Singapore last week aged 95, left Zimbabwe deeply […]
US President Donald Trump on Saturday confirmed that Hamza bin Laden, the son and designated heir of Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, was killed in a counter-terrorism operation along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. US media reported in late July and early August, citing intelligence officials, that the younger Bin […]
CAIRO — The prosecution of a 15-year-old girl who killed a bus driver after he allegedly tried to rape her has reignited debate over the treatment of women in Egypt’s legal system, including the practice of virginity tests and blaming victims of sexual violence. In July, the teenager […]
WASHINGTON — The White House says Hamza bin Laden, the son of the late al-Qaida leader who had become an increasingly prominent figure in the terrorist organization, has been killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. A White House statement gives no further details, such […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Drones claimed by Yemen’s Houthi rebels attacked the world’s largest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia and a major oilfield operated by Saudi Aramco early Saturday, sparking a huge fire at a processor crucial to global energy supplies. It wasn’t clear if there […]
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