The ED’s top law officer, additional solicitor general S V Raju, on Thursday suggested that the PMLA should be amended to make angadias/hawala operators as ‘reporting entity’ under the law. So far, hawala operations are deemed illegal cash transactions. The ASG’s suggestion could bring them under a regulatory framework where they may have to disclose…
A man barged into the property of a Hindu family in New York’s Queens Village and ripped down religious flags, discarded them in the garbage and left the family in absolute shock. The New York Police Department (NYPD) is probing the incident as a hate crime. The incident is from April 20 but came to…
NEW DELHI: Hashim Musa, a Pakistani terrorist identified behind the Pahalgam massacre, is a former para commando of Pakistan army’s special forces, investigations into the terror conspiracy have confirmed.Sources told TOI that Musa, now a hardcore terrorist working with Pakistan-based LeT, was sent by outfit masterminds to J&K to unleash terror attacks on non-locals as…
NEW DELHI: China has expressed its support for Pakistan, its “all-weather strategic cooperative partner”, and advocated for an “impartial probe” into the Pahalgam terror attack that killed 25 Indians and one Nepalese citizen on April 22.In a phone call with Pakistan deputy PM Mohammad Ishaq Dar on Sunday, Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said that…
Pakistan wants involvement of Russia and China in investigating the Pahalgam terror attack, according to a media report. Terrorists opened fire in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam on Tuesday, killing 26 people, mostly tourists, in the deadliest attack in the Valley since the Pulwama strike in 2019. The Resistance Front (TRF), a proxy of the banned…
NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday called for action in response to the Pahalgam terror attack, urging authorities to “punish the guilty, but protect the innocent.”“After the Pahalgam terror attack, there must be a decisive fight against terrorism and its origin. Punish the guilty, show them no mercy but don’t…
NEW DELHI: Authorities have demolished the houses of three more active terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir, taking the total number of such actions to nine since the deadly Pahalgam attack on April 22. Security officials told PTI on Sunday that properties in Bandipora, Pulwama and Shopian districts had been razed as part of the ongoing…
NEW DELHI: Fifteen local Kashmiri overground workers (OGWs) and terror aides have been identified, based on electronic surveillance, as the key suspects who may have facilitated the Pakistani assailants behind the Pahalgam carnage. They are believed to have arranged logistics and, possibly, also received arms consignments from Pakistan.Sources said the multi-agency probe has zeroed in…
An early-morning fire on Easter Sunday claimed the lives of three men and injured four others in Queens, New York City, as authorities continue to investigate the cause. Firefighters rushed to the scene at 8725 Chevy Chase Street in Jamaica Estates shortly before 1:40 am, responding to a three-alarm blaze. According to the police, three…
A Hindu minister in Pakistan was attacked in Sindh by protesters opposing the government’s irrigation canal projects in the country’s southern province. The state minister for religious affairs, Kheal Das Kohistani, was driving through the province when protesters threw potatoes and tomatoes. Kohistani, a minister in the Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif-led federal government, was unharmed…