BENGALURU — Oil prices rose 2% on Tuesday to their highest in four weeks, as the U.S. reimposed its naval blockade of Iran while the two countries stepped up attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, heightening uncertainty about energy flows. Brent crude futures climbed $1.68, or 2%, to $84.98 per barrel by 0051 GMT, while […]
SRINAGAR — Washington has no business interfering in internal matters of other countries, National Conference (NC) Lok Sabha MP Ruhullah Mehdi said Saturday, questioning Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s meeting with the US envoy despite violence in Palestine and Iran perpetrated by the United States and its ally Israel. “If I were to receive legitimacy from […]
PULWAMA — The second edition of the Royal Premier League Pulwama commenced in this south Kashmir district on Wednesday evening, marking a striking display of the region’s changing social landscape. In an area once associated with the presence of terror groups, the cricket tournament has brought a very different energy to the forefront-one defined by […]
JAMMU — The Jammu Municipal Corporation on Tuesday sealed 46 shops at the vegetable market in Indira Chowk for failing to pay rent for more than four years, officials said. A JMC team pasted notices and put locks and seals on the shops after they failed to clear their outstanding dues despite repeated notices, including […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Jammu and Kashmir Police, Army and CRPF apprehended six alleged terrorist associates in two separate operations in Shopian district on Tuesday, recovering hand grenades, AK-47 magazines, ammunition and incriminating posters, police said. According to a police statement, in the first operation at Heerpora, a motorcycle bearing registration number JK18B-6130 was intercepted during […]
SRINAGAR — The State Investigation Agency (SIA) has reopened investigation into the 1998 Wandhama massacre where 23 Kashmiri Pandits were brutally murdered in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ganderbal district, officials said on Tuesday. The reopening of the Wandhama massacre case comes as the SIA has re-launched investigation into several cases involving the murder of Kashmiri Pandits […]
JAMMU — A special NIA court in Jammu has directed jail authorities to ensure that separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah is not unnecessarily handcuffed while being escorted from the Central Jail in Kot Bhalwal here to a hospital or court following his plea that handcuffing could cause him pain, and further endanger his health Shah […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Jammu and Kashmir Police in a joint operation with the Army and CRPF, arrested two alleged terrorist associates and recovered a pistol, 12 rounds of ammunition and a hand grenade from their possession in the Yarwan forest area of CB Nath in Rajpora tehsil of Pulwama district, police said on Tuesday. According […]
SRINAGAR — The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Apni Party on Monday held separate protests here against electricity tariff hike in Jammu and Kashmir, which will be effective from September 1. PDP leaders and workers assembled at the party office near General Post Office and raised slogans against the 6.83 per cent hike in […]
NEW DELHI — Former India captains Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and Dilip Vengsarkar are among 21 former international captains who have appealed to Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for proper medical treatment and welfare of jailed former Prime Minister and World Cup winning captain Imran Khan. The move has been initiated by former Australia captain […]
SRINAGAR — Two inmates booked in separate cases under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act escaped from the Central Jail here on Sunday after scaling the front-side wall of the high-security prison, officials said. The escaped inmates have been identified as Farman Khan, a resident of Sadanpora, Rajasthan, and Mukhtar Ahmed Gujar, […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday said women are not responsible for the violence and discrimination that they face, asserting that parents and the society as a whole have a responsibility to ensure that girls grow up in a safe and equitable environment. Abdullah said this while addressing the annual-day […]
CHANDIGARH/JAMMU — Holding that excessive force cannot be used against citizens, the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) has upheld a “severe displeasure” censure awarded to a former Rashtriya Rifles sector commander over the December 2023 custodial deaths of three civilians in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district. Dismissing the plea of Brigadier Padmasambhava Acharya, the tribunal has […]
