Over 200 individuals in Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir, have been quarantined after 17 people, including 13 children, died from a mysterious illness. The deaths have sparked concerns about the spread of the illness, and a medical emergency has been demanded by local officials. A central team is investigating the cause of the deaths, with over 230 samples sent for testing. Officials have identified a common factor among the deceased: brain involvement and damage to the nervous system. Three patients have been airlifted to a hospital in Jammu, and one patient has been airlifted to PGI Chandigarh for further treatment.
The withdrawal of the candidature by DPAP leaders on the last day on August 30 is seen as a boost to the NC-Congress alliance.
Since Sunday there have been around 50 such attacks carried out in the province and in one incident in Sibi town attackers targeted an election rally of a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party-backed candidate for the National Assembly in which four people lost their lives and six were injured.
A bench of Justices BR Gavai and Sandeep Mehta, which had allowed anticipatory bail to Surat resident Tusharbhai Rajnikantbhai Shah in a cheating case, got irked when it was informed that the businessman was remanded in police custody.
The killings of two civilians and injuries to another on Friday lead to massive protests with people demanding a fair probe into the incident.
The SSP said the investigation of the matter and questioning of the infiltrator will be conducted later.
The probe agency named her as an accused in its supplementary charge sheet filed in the case on Wednesday. Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana will take up the matter for on November 10.
The injured were rushed to the Shri Maharaja Hari Singh hospital, where a civilian succumbed to his injuries, the official added.
Two terrorists carried out a 'fidayeen' attack on an Army camp in Jammu's Rajouri district in the early hours of Thursday, killing three soldiers.
As many as 174 members voted in favour of the motion in the 342-member House while members of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf were absent during the voting.
A five-wicket haul by left-arm spinner Mohammad Aslam (5 for 90) helped Rajasthan restrict Hyderabad to 385.
Police on Friday registered a case against two former officials of Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) following allegations of misappropriation of funds, received by the body from the BCCI.
Comedy is the flavour of the season right now, and Vendhar Movies' Paagan seems to have taken advantage of it.
Two militants including a top commander of Lashker-e-Tayiba were on Thursday killed in a fierce gunbattle with security forces in Kupwara district of north Kashmir, a senior police officer said.
The recent terror attack in Norway that left 76 people dead in Oslo has a remote link with a temple town located thousands of miles away -- Varanasi.
Malik Mohammad Aslam said, "I can ignore if she disobeys me but I cannot tolerate anything against my country and my faith."
A Pakistani court has sentenced an imam and his son to life imprisonment after convicting them on controversial blasphemy charges after they removed a poster containing Quranic verses, officials said.
A suspected Lashkar militant was ordered to be taken to Aurangabad in Maharashtra from New Delhi in connection with a terror-related case. Mohammad Aslam, known as Saleem, was produced on Wednesday before the Magistrate's court in Delhi following which the order was passed.
A suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba (LeT) terrorist, who was arrested from the New Delhi railway station on Tuesday, was remanded in police custody for 14 days by a Delhi court on Wednesday.
Two jawans of Territorial Army were arrested and fake currency worth Rs 1.70 lakh was recovered from their possession in Poonch district, police said on Monday.
A three-year-old boy and his 30-year-old father were gunned down by militants in the Pehlipora Dinaro village in south Kashmir's Shopian district on Wednesday night.
The Election Commission will hold biennial elections on February 13 to seven Rajya Sabha seats, including those held by Union Ministers Vayalar Ravi and Saif-ud-Din Soz as also National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah. Elections would be held for four seats in Jammu and Kashmir and three in Kerala.
Hockey India received a shot in the arm after the International Hockey Federation (FIH) formally recognised the newly-formed body as its member and the sole governing body of the game, both men and women, in the country. In a letter to Hockey India secretary Mohammad Aslam, dated June 14, FIH secretary-general Peter L Cohen said the FIH has recognised Hockey India as its member in place of Indian Hockey Confederation (IHC).
Aslam alias Saleem was picked up by the Delhi Police with detonators and five kilograms of RDX. During interrogation it was revealed that he was in India to activate sleeper cells and to undertake recruitments in the country.
India hockey goalkeeper Baljit Singh, who was hit on the eye with a golf ball during practice, will undergo treatment in the United States. Hockey India secretary Mohammad Aslam Khan said the Sports Ministry has agreed to foot the bill for the same.
National Conference president Omar Abdullah on Sunday evening met Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra in the winter capital Jammu and staked claim to form the government. Omar was earlier chosen as the leader of the NC legislature party and state Congress president Saif-ud-Din Soz and another senior party leader Chowdhary Mohammad Aslam met Vohra and handed over a letter pledging the party's support to the NC.
Mohammad Aslam and Shamsher Singh grabbed four wickets each as Rajasthan dismissed Karnataka for 329 and gained a first innings lead of 64 runs
Meanwhile, one foreign militant divisional commander of Al Badar outfit, identified as Abu Ishtaq, was killed in an encounter with security forces at Kotli Kala Ban in Manjakote area of district Rajouri.
Professor Murthy, who was also the chairman of the Department of Modern English Language at the varsity, had been teaching at the Aligarh Muslim University for the last 28 years.
A senior official in the central probe agency said Wani was arrested from Jammu and Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar by the Enforcement Directorate with the help of the state police.
Dar was appointed as a daily wage employee in the state Health Department and has been on election duty since Wednesday.
'Unlike Andhra Pradesh or Tamil Nadu, there is no opportunity for workers to earn a livelihood in Bihar.'
High alert has been sounded across India that five members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India, who had fled from a Madhya Pradesh jail in 2013, are planning to carry out terror strikes on instructions of Pakistan's spy agency Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence.
The road, the alternative link between Kashmir and rest of the country, was closed after the season's first heavy snowfall in the Jammu region.
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