Jammu & Kashmir
Kashmir: Concurrent assembly, LS polls in J&K not viable due to security complications – CEC
Jammu, Mar 16: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar Saturday stated that it was not possible for the Election Commission of India (ECI) to conduct assembly polls, concurrently with the parliamentary polls, in J&K due to security complications. CEC said the entire (J&K) administrative machinery in unanimity conveyed that it (simultaneous assembly polls) was not […]
Europe
Bratislava sees thousands protest overhaul of national broadcaster
Euro News Reports: Thousands gathered in central Bratislava over the weekend to protest the overhaul of the nation’s public broadcaster RTVS. Protesters fear that the reform will put the channel under governmental control. The reform plan is to rename RTVS into STaR (“Slovak Television and Radio”) and to dismiss most of its top management, including […]
Woman dies after being chased by bear in Slovakia
A 31-year-old woman from Belarus has died after she was chased by a bear in the north of Slovakia, officials said. The Slovak Mountain Rescue Service said the woman’s body had been recovered from the forest in Slovakia’s Low Tatras mountains on Friday evening. She had been walking with a male companion when they were […]
International News
Afghan Taliban condemn attack, urge Pakistan to stop ‘continuation’ of wrong polices
KABUL: The Taliban government confirmed Pakistani strikes but rejected Pakistani claims that those attacks killed any militants. Condemning the strikes as a violation of sovereignty, Zabiullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesperson, claimed attacks killed five women and three children in the eastern border provinces of Khost and Paktika. “The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan does not allow […]