Meghalaya cop hurt in assam police firing
Shillong: A Deputy SP ranked officer, leading a Meghalaya police team, was injured when they were fired upon by Assam policemen who mistook them for militants in a remote village in West Jaintia Hills district on Saturday, a top police official said here.
‘BJP is quiet since I explained Art 370 to PM’
Srinagar: Eminent lawyer Ram Jethmalani on Saturday said Article 370, which gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir, was part of the Constitution’s basic structure which “nobody can touch” and claimed BJP was now “quiet” on it as he had explained its importance to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
2 jawans, civilian killed in avalanche
Srinagar: Two Army personnel and a porter were killed and another soldier was injured when an avalanche struck a patrol unit near the line of Control (loC) in south of Nasthachun pass, Kupwara district of north Kashmir on Saturday. Their bodies have been recovered, an Army spokesman said.
Two CRPF men hurt in Kashmir attack
Srinagar: Two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were injured on Saturday when guerrillas fired at a security force vehicle on Srinagar-Jammu national highway in Anantnag district, police said. “Two CRPF jawans were injured on Saturday evening when militants fired at a CRPF vehicle at lev dora (Qazigund) on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway in Anantnag district,” a senior police officer said.
Pambar dam: Centre’s intervention sought
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Government on Saturday expressed concern over Kerala’s reported move to construct a dam across the Pambar river and sought Centre’s intervention, saying the issue came under the Cauvery dispute ambit. Drawing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s attention towards ‘disconcerting reports’ about Kerala’s plan to construct a dam with a storage capacity of about 2 tmcft across the river at Pattisserry there, Chief Minister O Panneerselvam insisted that Pambar was a tributary of river Amaravathy, “which in turn is a tributary of the river Cauvery.”
Maya accuses pm of misguiding people
lucknow: BSP supremo Mayawati accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of fooling the entire public and advised him to stop giving ‘Updesh’ to the people and try to do something for the masses.
“The PM is just doing symbolic work to confuse the people of the country,” she alleged in a written statement here on Saturday afternoon. Mayawati said that the PM is just dreaming about his works while the people are suffering. Modi is again misguiding people.