Kashmir remains a challenge due to Pak’s activities: Rajnath

LAKHIMPUR KHERI/BAHRAICH: Kashmir is still a challenge due to destabilising activities by Pakistan, Union home minister Rajnath Singh said here on Monday. He was talking to the media after inaugurating the administrative building, residential block and officers’ mess at SSB headquarters. “Kashmir is still a challenge due to destabilising activities by neighbouring Pakistan. However, the Army, the CRPF, the J&K police and intelligence bureau men are acting in better coordination,” he said.

Secretary General and High Representative for Disarmament Izumi Nakamitsu and Foreign Secretary Vijay Keshav Gokhale on Monday inaugurated the First Annual Disarmament and International Security Affairs Fellowship Programme organised by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) here. The programme is being held at the Foreign Services Institute from January 14-February 1.

Student kills instructor over suspicion of affair with mom

KARNAL: A student of Industrial Training Institute in Rohtak allegedly murdered his instructor over suspicion of having an affair with his mother. The deceased has been identified as Munish Kumar, 28, of Fulian Kalan village of Jind district and he was posted in ITI in Kansla village of Rohtak district. He was living in a rented room in Rohtak. Police said the accused hit the him with sticks on January 6 and dumped his body in a canal near Urlana village Panipat district.

Worker dies in J’khand coal mine, firm says suicide

RAMGARH: A 58-year-old coal miner was killed Monday allegedly after being trapped in an underground mine at the Barka-sayal area of Central Coalfields Ltd (CCL) here, police said. A company official, however, claimed it could be a case of suicide as he entered the underground mine by violating norms.