25-year-old Mazdak Dilshad Baloch appears much more assured and confident than his age. Living in Canada since 2014, Mazdak and his wife arrived in India a few months ago to build public opinion in favour of freedom struggle for Balochistan. He spoke to Shitanshu Shekhar Shukla in an exclusive interview. Edited excerpts: Are you
Lalit Shastri The cadre management of an all-India Service like the Indian Police Service and the placement and postings of top-most and senior officials belonging to this elite service leaves much to be desired in Madhya Pradesh. This is the inference even a rank outsider would draw if one were to take a close look
Newsroom24x7 Staff Srinagar: Three terrorists were killed as Army foiled a cross-border terrorist attack today on a security camp in the North Kashmir district of Kupwara. According to reports received here, the terrorists, who came dressed in army fatigue, were carrying arms , radio sets, other equipment and medicines with Pakistani markings. Search operation was
Newsroom24x7 Staff Click here for news update: Baramula terror attack: One BSF soldier killed Srinagar: Two terrorists were killed in heavy exchange of fire between terrorists and Army personnel when the infiltrators attacked an Army camp at Baramulla in Jammu and Kashmir tonight. When the terrorists ran towards a BSF camp, adjoining the 46 Rashtriya Rifle
Lalit Shastri India used the Human Rights Council general debate in Geneva on the human rights situations requiring the Council’s attention as a platform to corner Pakistan by projecting that it was fabricating facts and figures over the situation in Kashmir. Using its right of reply on 19 September, India stated that illegal occupation of
Newsroom24x7 Staff Srinagar/Jammu: During the 2-day long discussions between the All Party Delegation led by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and the stakeholders in Jammu and Kashmir, there was a general opinion that perception management of media, specially social media is very important to channelize the energies of the youths in the right direction. It
Newsroom24x7 Staff Srinagar: On eve of the meeting of the All Party Delegation (APD) with local leaders of political parties and different organisations in Srinagar, which will be attended by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh in the wake of the Kashmir crisis, Curfew was lifted in Anantnag, Pulwama, Kulgam, Shopian, Baramulla and most parts of Srinagar
Newsroom24x7 Staff New Delhi: After 33 days of curfew imposed to control mobs that went berserk on the streets of Kashmir following the killing of the Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Burhan Wani in an encounter earlier in July, Rajya Sabha – the Upper House of Parliament today unanimously passed a resolution appealing to all sections of
Newsroom24x7 Staff New Delhi: Pakistan today stands fully exposed and there is concrete evidence to brand it as a country that is in cahoots with terrorist organisations like Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamaat-ud-Dawa that are deeply entrenched on the Pakistani soil and the Pakistani Army is engaged in training and sending terrorists across the border to commit
Newsroom24x7 Staff Bhabra (Madhya Pradesh): Prime Minister Narendra Modi today reached out to the people of Kashmir, where normal life has been disrupted due to voiolence and curfew for the last 32 days, and echoed the state chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti’s stand by asserting his government’s willingness to hold dialogue under the framework of ‘insaniyat
Newsroom24x7 Desk Congress returns to power in Arunachal Pradesh as the Supreme Court orders that Nabam Tuki be reinstated as Arunachal Chief Minister. In J&K: Separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has been arrested at Haiderpur in Srinagar while trying to defy curfew restrictions imposed in the area. Vasundhara Raje, Chief Minister of Rajasthan, has
Newsroom24x7 Staff Srinagar: A joint force of the Indian Army and Jammu and Kashmir police is engaged in a heavy gun battle in Bawan Watsar village of north Kashmir’s Handwara district, according to reports received here. More news from Watsar village is awaited.
Newsroom24x7 Desk Srinagar: Police used force and fired several rounds of tear gas shells today to control a mob of protesters in the Batamaloo area here after there was a rumour that a person had died in a scuffle with a police officer. The official version as narrated to the media is that a sub-inspector of police
Lalit Shastri Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, speaking recently in Lok Sabha had described the attack on the Air Force base at Pathankot in Punjab as an “accumulation of an asymmetric war”. He said: “When conventional war fails as it had failed in ’65 and ’71, the enemy resorted to thousand cuts in trying to bleed
