Co-accused's confession can't be sole basis for conviction: SC
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
New Delhi, Oct 23: Confession of a co-accused cannot be the sole basis for convicting a person as courts are not under an obligation to rely on it, the Supreme Court has ruled, while quashing the life imprisonment imposed on two persons in a murder case. A bench of justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana More- Kashmir
Army ends inquiry into Machil killings
Seeks to shift case to its court
MUSHTAQ AHMAD
Srinagar, Oct 23: The Army has concluded the internal inquiry into the alleged killing of three civilians in Machil area in a staged encounter last year. Highly placed sources said that the inquiry More
- Srinagar City
Teargas shelling FALLOUTS
SARAF KADAL POPULACE COMPLAINS OF BEING ‘UNDULY VICTIMIZED’
GK CITY REPORTER
Srinagar, Oct 23: The residents and traders of Saraf Kadal area in Shahr-e-Khaas are up in arms against the government for “undue victimization of the innocent people in the garb of teargas shelling on More
- Jammu
Article 370 can be abolished anytime: Swamy
RAJEEV SHARMA
Jammu, Oct 23: Vouching for permanent resettlement of displaced Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir, former Union Ministerand president Janta Party Subramanian Swamy on Sunday announced that 10 lakh armed ex-servicemen More
- South Asia
Nusrat Bhutto dies
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
Islamabad, Oct 23: Nusrat Bhutto, the widow of former Pakistani President Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and the mother of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto, today died in Dubai following a prolonged illness.  More
- World
Doomed satellite falls to Earth
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
Berlin, Oct 23: A bus-sized defunct German satellite plunged to Earth today after languishing in a dead orbit for more than a decade, but space officials are not sure if any of its debris has hit the planet More


