Kupwara army camp attacked by fidayeen militants in Kashmir; three armymen, two terrorists killed

Terrorists on Thursday attacked an armed force camp in Kupwara area of Jammu and Kashmir.

An armed force commander and two officers were slaughtered in the assault. The armed force officer executed was recognized as Captain Ayush, official sources told PTI. It was before mistakenly written about TV that five armed force staff had been murdered in the assault.

As indicated by a report in the IANS, the ambush on the armed force camp, which is 120 kilometers from Srinagar, was a fidayeen or a suicide assault. “Fidayeen psychological militants assaulted the Panzgam armed force camp near the Line of Control (LoC) (at) around 4.30 am,” Defense Ministry Spokesman Colonel Rajesh Kalia told IANS.

India, US discuss measures to strengthen partnership at UN

The US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley talked about with her Indian partner Syed Akbaruddin the financial and hostile to debasement changes embraced by India to goad development and measures to fortify Indo-US association at the world body.

Haley met Akbaruddin at the Permanent Mission of India to the UN here yesterday.
“They talked about peacekeeping change and India’s financial and hostile to debasement changes that have helped organizations and prodded development,” as indicated by an announcement issued by the US Mission to the UN.

The two representatives likewise talked about the “close ties between the two nations and chances to promote the association between the US and India at the United Nations.”

Mallya could fight extradition on political grounds

Indian business tycoon Vijay Mallya, who has been pronounced an announced guilty party, is probably going to test his removal to India from the UK in light of the fact that the charges against him are politically roused, a legitimate master said today.


The 61-year-old alcohol noble, who has been living in willful outcast in Britain since a year ago, was captured by Scotland Yard yesterday on misrepresentation assertions, setting off an official removal prepare in the British courts.

Mallya was discharged on restrictive safeguard a couple of hours after the fact subsequent to giving a safeguard bond worth 650,000 pounds and guaranteeing the court of maintaining all conditions related with removal procedures, for example, the surrender of his international ID and a prohibition on him having any travel reports.

Centre to do away with Service Charge on Food Bills

The administration arrangements to issue a consultative to states requesting that they break down against out of line inconvenience of service charge on food and drink bills, Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said today.

“Benefit charge does not exist. It is in effect wrongly charged. We have arranged counseling on this issue. We have sent it to the PMO for endorsement,” Paswan told columnists here.

A senior service official said the counseling, once endorsed by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), will be issued to all states and union regions.

The counseling will likewise be valuable for Voluntary Consumer Organizations (VCOs) battling for shopper right, he said.

“No client ought to be compelled to pay benefit charge. On the off chance that clients need they can pay a tip to servers or give their agree to demand the charge in the bill,” the authority said while clarifying the way of proposed counseling.

Indian Banks Loan Rose to 5.1% in Two Weeks to March 31 – RBI

Indian banks’ loans rose 5.1 percent in the two weeks to March 31 from a year earlier, while deposits rose 11.8 percent, the Reserve Bank of India’s weekly statistical supplement showed on Friday.

Outstanding loans rose 3.16 trillion rupees ($49.08 billion) to 78.82 trillion rupees in the two weeks to March 31. Non-food credit rose 3.18 trillion rupees to 78.28 trillion rupees, while food credit fell 19.30 billion rupees to 539.30 billion rupees.

Bank deposits rose 2.63 trillion rupees to 108.05 trillion rupees in the two weeks to March 31.

Source: NewsNetwork