Maqsood Ahmed

The fourth additional metropolitan sessions judge on Friday acquitted Maqsood Ahmed, an alleged aide of slain HuJI commander Mohammed Abdul Shahed aka Bilal, in a terror conspiracy case.

Mohammed Maqsood Ahmed on Friday took charge as chairman, Society for Employment Promotion and Training in Twin Cities (Setwin) which was reconstituted by the state government recently.

A Delhi court granted interim protection from arrest to three persons allegedly involved in the violence in Jahangirpuri on April 16 when members of two communities clashed over a Hanuman Jayanti procession. The court said that merely because the three individuals were residents of a particular area, no presumption could be made regarding their involvement in the riots.

'Business before safety' seems to the motto of hawkers in the bustling market of Pathergatti. In what could be a hazard waiting to happen, hawkers have thrown safety regulations prescribed by the electricity department.

JAMMU: Unidentified militants shot dead a Special Police Officer (SPO) and his mother in Jawalapur area of Kishtwar tehsil in Doda district in Jammu and Kashmir, official sources said here on Wednesday.

NEW DELHI: An attempt to bomb ‘‘specific’’ targets in the Capital was foiled with the recovery of two kg RDX from two Pakistani militants affiliated to Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, the outfit allegedly involved in the kidnapping of two Americans and three other foreigners in Kashmir in 1995, on Wednesday.

Five persons were killed on Friday when an oil tanker and a pick-up jeep collided head on at the Bikaner-Chhatargarh road near village Shobhasar, nearly 15 km from here.

At least 30 persons were hospitalised because of poisoning after partaking dinner at a function in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir.

The conference aims at creating a forum for medicos, researchers, academicians and stakeholders and providing them a platform to share their views on the quality of life in persons with aphasia.

“My foot got stuck in a scooter and within seconds, protesters rained stones and lathis on me,” said head constable Maqsood Ahmed while referring to Sunday’s protests near Jamia Millia Islamia. Ahmed, who is among several injured police personnel, is in ICU.

In yet another attack on cops in Bhopal — over a dozen cases already reported so far this year, three bike-borne youth allegedly punched a traffic constable at Chhola Under-Bridge in Gautam Nagar locality on Monday evening.

JAMMU: A major tragedy was averted when a grenade thrown by militants to blow up a security picket did not explode in Doda in Jammu and Kashmir.

Muslim residents of Ayodhya’s Syedwada area heaved a sigh of relief when the SC pronounced its decision. “We are happy that the Supreme Court decided the matter once and for all, leaving no room for doubt. Finally, the disease that this issue had become has ended and the focus can now solely be put on the town’s development and business,” said a resident of Gola bazaar.

The Haj Committee of India on Tuesday announced that all the applications for the pilgrimage this year stand cancelled as Saudi Arabia has stated that only a limited number of people residing in the Kingdom will be allowed to perform Haj due to the Covid-19 pandemic.