Observer News Service - April 30, 2019
SRINAGAR Four tourists sustained injuries on Tuesday after they met with an accident near Zabarwan Park on boulevard road Srinagar. Reports reaching to KNO said that a 22 seater bus bearing registration number JKO2BN-9927 carrying tourists rammed into an electric pole near Zabarwan Park, resulting in injuries to four tourists including three ladies and a […]
Observer News Service - April 30, 2019
SURAT ( GUJARAT ) A sessions court here Tuesday sentenced Narayan Sai, the son of jailed self-styled godman Asaram Bapu, to life imprisonment in a rape case filed against him by a former woman devotee in 2013. Additional Sessions Judge P S Gadhvi handed down the sentence to Sai and asked him to pay […]
Observer News Service - April 30, 2019
Talking to ones adversary in the midst of a war, a limited war or even hostility is often viewed as undesirable in the public mind. However, the lesson from the long history of warfare and Indias own experience in dealing with past crises is that talking to ones adversaries is a crucial requirement for de-escalation […]
Observer News Service - April 30, 2019
MUMBAI, India In the continuing Indian elections, as 900 million people are voting to elect representatives to the lower house of the Parliament, disinformation and hate speech are drowning out truth on social media networks in the country and creating a public health crisis like the pandemics of the past century. This contagion of […]
Observer News Service - April 30, 2019
In an interview to a television channel, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi once again invoked his NDA predecessor Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s slogan of ‘Insaniyat, Jamhooriyat and Kashmiriyat’ to resolve Kashmir. He said Vajpayee’s policy was a guideline for him and repeated that he didn’t need anybody’s advice on Kashmir as he knew the state and […]
Observer News Service - April 30, 2019
NEW DELHI The Home Ministry has served a notice to Congress President Rahul Gandhi, asking him to clarify within a fortnight his “factual position” on a complaint questioning his citizenship status. In a letter, the Home Ministry said it has received a representation from BJP MP Subramanian Swamy in which it has been brought […]
Observer News Service - April 30, 2019
Right to vote, a sweet illusion or I may say a virtual perception of fantasy, I always craved for. They say democracy is a battle of ideas, but I contest! Because, in this part of the world, democracy is a charade and in the most beautiful garrison town, Kashmir, people are enslaved and the foreigners […]
Observer News Service - April 30, 2019
SRINAGAR Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Geelani was admitted to hospital on Tuesday following acute intestinal infection, family sources said. Nayeem Geelani, son of the octogenarian Syed Ali Geelani, said that his father was admitted to the super specialty Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) in Srinagar city following a complaint of severe abdominal pain. […]
Observer News Service - April 30, 2019
COLOMBO Sri Lankan authorities have identified 42 foreign nationals among the 253 people killed in the string of Easter suicide bombings, officials said on Tuesday. Another 12 foreigners remain unaccounted for and could be among still unidentified bodies at Colombo’s police morgue, foreign ministry officials said. Five wounded foreigners were still in hospital after the […]
Observer News Service - April 30, 2019
COLOMBO In a major development, the leader of the Islamic State (IS) group has praised the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka and apparently called them revenge for the fall of Baghouz, Syria – the last territory that the extremist group held in West Asia. The US-based SITE Intelligence Group said the acknowledgement of […]