Tag: rumours

ISLAMABAD: Amid rumours of a plot being hatched to assassinate former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, the Islamabad police department said on Saturday night that the security agencies have been put on high alert in adjoining areas of Bani Gala in the city. Section 144 has already been imposed ...

National West Bengal, May 5: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday slammed the Trinamool Congress for spreading rumours about the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and said that the Central government will implement it once the COVID-19 pandemic ends.The Home Minister, who is on a two-day visit to West Bengal, ...

Former head of the Taliban’s political office in Doha says he is ‘absolutely fine and healthy’ amid rumours of internal divisions.A top Taliban leader has said he is alive, denying rumours of his killing that surfaced following reports of an internal split in the Taliban group nearly a month ...

KABUL: The Taliban co-founder and now deputy prime minister of Afghanistan released an audio statement Monday saying he was alive and well after news of his supposed demise went viral on social media. Abdul Ghani Baradar, who was last week named as a number two to Mullah Mohammed Hassan ...

Shops open in Lal Chowk but downtown markets still shut SRINAGAR: The aftereffects of the demise of senior pro-freedom leader Syed Ali Geelani have not died down even on the fifth day in Kashmir. Many parts of the Valley remained shut with markets closed, though transport has returned to ...

India’s vaccination drive against the coronavirus began in January, and was kicked off in Jammu and Kashmir two weeks later. Six months later, while most people have been partially vaccinated or are ready to be vaccinated, there are some who refuse to get any jabs at all in the ...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday applauded the country’s commendable momentum on the vaccination front and urges the nation to overcome vaccine hesitancy.Addressing the “Mann Ki Baat” radio programme, PM Modi said that India achieved a historic achievement by vaccinating more than 86 lakh people in a ...

        Srinagar: Police on Sunday said that late Ashraf Sehrai son’s have not been booked under Public Safety Act as rumors being circulated on social media.   Taking to Twitter Kashmir Police zone wrote, “Both sons of Late Sehrai & 4 others have been arrested for ...

Reports of Rangers Abducting Sindh Police Chief Spark Civil War Rumours in Karachi; Army Chief Orders ProbePakistan's army chief has ordered an investigation into allegations that Sindh police chief was kidnapped by army troops to force him to order the arrest of the son-in-law of exiled former prime minister ...

Fake news and “street rumours” were picked up by a section of politicians, activists and media to paint the 2008 Batla House encounter of Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorists as staged, retired IPS officer and the then chief of the Delhi Police special cell Karnal Singh has said.The 1984-batch officer ...