The Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir and the Indian Army on Sunday paid rich tributes to shepherd Tashi Namgyal, who alerted the Army in 1999 about Pakistan's intrusion in the Kargil sector of Ladakh.
There have been some misleading foreign media reports about a resolution in the United Nations General Assembly, sources in the Ministry of External Affairs said on Wednesday, adding that it is an annual resolution tabled by Pakistan in the Third Committee.
The court's directions have come on a public interest litigation (PIL) on the slow pace of eviction of the former deputy CM and BJP leader, Kavinder Gupta from the ministerial bungalow.
The soldier identified as Delhair Mushtaq suffered injuries and was immediately taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
Sources identified these women as Maryama Begum and Arshad Begum, both residents of Basantgarh area.
Speaking at the meeting, senior leaders including Balwinder Singh Bhundur, Prof Prem Singh Chandumajra, Sikander Singh Maluka and Dr Daljit Singh Cheema said more than twenty lakh people in J&K speak Punjabis and that Punjabis constituted more than three per cent of the population of the union territory.
Youth, in particular, are growing restive on the issue and have stressed that they will accept nothing short of the Sixth Schedule for Ladakh as has been done in the country’s certain other tribal areas.
The exclusion of Punjabi as one of J & K's official languages is bound to be seen as an 'anti-minority and anti-Sikh' move, says SAD president and a key NDA ally Sukhbir Bada
Colonel Devender Anand, spokesman of the Defence Ministry said, "At about 9.15 a.m. today Pakistan initiated unprovoked ceasefire violation by firing with small arms and intense shelling with mortars along the LoC in Shahpur, Kirni and Degwar sectors of Poonch district.
Short of weapons, terrorists resort to snatching weapons
