• HC pulls up admin on dog menace
• Don’t snatch our park for community hall: Chanapora residents
• Big 92.7 hosts auditions for Naat competition
• GARBAGE HEAPS OUTSIDE IQBAL (RA) PARK MOCK AT SMC

Timber smugglers on prowl in Bandipore

‘Chop 10-40 green trees everyday’

TARIQ RASOOL

Bandipora, Aug 12: Residents of Ajas, Mulkhiuhama and other adjoining areas in this north Kashmir district on Friday alleged that officials of the Forest Department have failed to check the timber smuggling More

• HC upholds single bench order to compensate victim’s family
• 87 cases settled in Lok Adalats
• Bla residents aghast over non-completion of jetty bridge
• MP’s son and standing counsel for passport deptt seek HC intervention
• Clear pending cases under welfare schemes: LA panel

HC pulls up admin on dog menace

Directs for construction of ponds in 2 weeks; says sterilization not priority, catch dogs first

M HYDERI

Srinagar, Aug 12: The High Court on Friday pulled up administration for failing to put a check on the dog menace and directed it to come up with dog ponds within two weeks.  The division bench comprising More

• Don’t snatch our park for community hall: Chanapora residents
• Big 92.7 hosts auditions for Naat competition
• GARBAGE HEAPS OUTSIDE IQBAL (RA) PARK MOCK AT SMC

2 families claim body, blood samples collected for DNA test

SURANKOTE FAKE ENCOUNTER

AZHAR MANHAS

Surankote, Aug 12: Police have collected blood samples of two families- which claimed that that youth killed in a fake encounter resembles with their sons – for DNA matching, official sources said here More

• 4 persons die; 80 rescued in flash floods; 2 dozen houses damaged
• Leopard mauls 7 in Poonch village
• PDP legislator alleges RGGVY ‘scam’ in Mendhar
• 50 % children in Jammu fail general health standards: Red Cross Survey
• BJP trying to vitiate peace: Rana

Death, life sentences to Pak Ranger in killing case

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Karachi, Aug 12: An anti-terrorism court today handed out death sentence to a Pakistani paramilitary trooper and life sentences to six others convicted of killing an 18-year-old unarmed man, who was publicly More

• Zardari allows political parties in FATA
• Uncertainty in Nepal as PM set to quit
• 16 dead in Pakistan rains
• 3 cops killed in Pakistan, Taliban commander escapes
• Pak channel to counter Taliban propaganda

Mass protests staged across Syria, 4 killed

Damascus, Aug 12: Syrian security forces opened fire Friday killing four people as thousands of anti-regime protesters poured onto streets of flashpoint cities after the Ramadan weekly prayers, rights More

• Saudi scholar calls for sex education to protect children from abuse
• British Sikh TV presenter is now Facebook hero
• Libyan rebels claim they captured part of Brega
• Forests remove 2.4 bn tonnes of carbon from air
• Short-tempered, impulsive men have missing brain chemical