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The Supreme Court on Tuesday closed a involving former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kalyan Singh in connection with the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition matter in Ayodhya. The court cited that a larger bench has already delivered a judgment over the matter and said that "nothing survives in the matter now". Petitioner Mohammad Aslam Bhure had filed a petition in the Supreme Court in 1991 against various BJP leaders. Significantly, on 6 December 1992, the Babri structure in Ayodhya was demolished by a mob. A case was registered against many leaders including BJP veteran LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Uma Bharti. After this case, there were communal riots across the country. More than two thousand people lost their lives in these riots. ...

Acting tough against drug abuse and to eradicate the menace of drugs from the society, Sopore Police booked 04 notorious drug peddlers under NDPS Act after obtaining formal detention orders from the competent Authority. A police spokesman said, "The detained persons were identified as Aadil Sultan Malla S/O Muhammad Sultan Malla R/O Sheikh Sahib Chinkipora Sopore, Aadil Ashraf Khan S/O Muhammad Ashraf Khan R/O Pethseer Sopore, Suhail Ahmad Ganie S/O Abdul Khaliq Ganie R/O Model Town Sopore and Bilal Ahmad Ganie S/O Ghulam Ahmad Ganie R/O Hathishah Sopore." "The booked drug peddlers have been lodged in Kot-Balwal Jail Jammu. Pertinent to mention that the above accused persons were involved in NDPS cases and were promoting drug abuse trade by supplying drugs to local youth of Police di...

BJP MLA T Raja Singh was detained by the police on Tuesday morning after widespread protests in Hyderabad over Raja's derogatory comments against Prophet Mohammad. A case is booked against him at Dabeerpura police station under 153, 153A, 188, 121, 295A, 298, 505 (1) (B) (C), 505 (2) and 506 of IPC. Raja had released a 10-minute video allegedly making derogatory comments about Prophet Muhammad. Taking a swipe at comedian Munawar Faruqui, whose show he unsuccessfully tried to disrupt recently, he said it was a "comedy" video just like Mr Faruqui's alleged videos on Hindu gods. He asked why the insult of Ram and Sita could pass off as comedy but not of other figures revered by other communities. As the video surfaced on Facebook page, scores of people descended on different polic...

A 10-year-old student received four stitches after he was beaten up by a schoolteacher in the Tantraypora Magam area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. The student has been identified as Kumail Abbas who studies in class 5 at Madina Public School (MPS). The mother of the victim student confirmed to news agency Kashmir News Trust that her 10-year-old son has received four stitches on his head after he was beaten up by a school teacher whom she identified as Muhammad Maqbool. The school authorities visited the house of the student and assured of taking disciplinary action against the accused teacher. The teacher reportedly thrashed the student after he failed to produce a notebook as demanded by the teacher. (KNT)

At least two persons were injured after two motorcyclists collided onto each other at Harmain area in south Kashmir's Shopian district, sources said. They told GNS that two persons identified as Zeeshan Hussain Malik son of Mohammad Hussain Malik, resident of Lahenthoor Shopian and Mohammad Ayoub Ahanger, son of Ghulam Ahmad Ahanger of DK Pora received injuries in the incident and were shifted to District Hospital Shopian for treatment, from where Mohammad Ayoub was referred to DH Anantnag. More details awaited. (GNS)

Former Jammu Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Sunday said that the LG Manoj Sinha says one thing & the police does something entirely different as far as the detention of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq is concerned. Omar reacted on social media after the police deployed outside the Nigeen based residence of Mirwaiz stopped Journalists from interviewing him. “The LG says one thing & the police does something entirely different. “We have instructions to stop him (Mirwaiz) from coming out and also to prevent visitors from going inside. We are only doing our duty. If the government gives us a different order, we will follow it,” Omar wrote on Twitter. Pertinently, LG had claimed in an interview that Mirwaiz is not under house arrest and that the policemen deployed around him are for ...

Police on Saturday claimed to have cracked Gopalpora Grenade attack case by arresting two Hybrid militants of Lashkar-i-Toiba outfit, officials said. The Kashmir Police Zone tweeted, "Budgam Police cracked grenade lobbing incident on minority at Gopalpora on 15/8/22 in which 1 person from minority was seriously injured. 2 Hybrid Militants of LeT namely Sahil Wani & Altaf Farooq @ Amir arrested. Vehicle used by Militant also seized. Investigation going on.(GNS)

Heavy rainfall triggered flash floods near Vaishno Devi Shrine in Katra town of JK’s Reasi district. Officials said that all devotees are safe and evacuated to safer places. However, the flash floods have disrupted the movement of devotees. Katra town witnessed heavy rainfall late Friday night forcing the temple authorities to stop the upward movement of devotees for a few hours. Official sources told news agency Kashmir News Trust that only yatris from Bhawan to Katra were allowed to return to Katra. Many yatris had to return midway from Adhkumari after the yatra was stopped. They said during heavy rains, thousands of pilgrims were present on the temple premises. “In the wake of heavy rainfall, upward movement of pilgrims to Vaishno Devi temple has been stopped from Katra. ...

JK Peoples Conference Chairman Sajad Gani Lone Friday said that the recent statement by officials of the Election Commission pertaining to allowing non-locals to vote in the Assembly elections in Jammu Kashmir has created a new set of apprehensions amongst the people of J&K and that the government of India must come out with unvarnished truth to allay their fears. “The statement of ECI officials has heightened the fears of demographic intervention and demographic change. We know the set of laws that prevail across the country but what matters here is not the application of the law but the intentions of those implementing the law”, PC President Sajad Lone said in a statement. Sajad maintained that in the last three years, disempowerment of the inhabitants of JK has become a cont...

The remains of an Indian army soldier have been found more than 38 years after he went missing on a glacier at the highest point along the heavily militarized contested border between India and Pakistan in Kashmir, officials said Wednesday, Associated Press reported. The soldier and 17 other colleagues were occupying a ridge on Siachen Glacier, high in the Karakoram range in disputed Kashmir’s Ladakh region, in May 1984 when they were hit by an avalanche, officials said. The bodies of 13 soldiers were recovered, but five remained missing. A team of soldiers on Monday found human remains at the glacier with an identity disc saying they belonged to Chandra Shekhar, one of the missing men, the Indian army said. Shekhar was part of India’s first army unit to occupy the 76-kilometer...