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 Special Investigation Team probing the rape and death of a 15-year-old tribal girl in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar has arrested three more persons, including a health department daily-wager, for their alleged role in a conspiracy to conceal the sexual assault and terminate the minor’s pregnancy, taking the total number of arrests to […]
JAMMU — Six people, including two women, were killed, and three others injured, when a vehicle veered off the road and fell into a ditch in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, officials said. The vehicle, a Maruti Eeco, was heading for Seri Chouhana village when its driver lost control and the vehicle […]
SRINAGAR — Several houses were damaged in a massive fire incident in the Watal Kadal area of the summer capital on Wednesday, officials said. The blaze engulfed at least seven houses in the congested locality, they said. Fire tenders were rushed to the spot and the blaze was brought under control. Seven houses were directly […]
SRINAGAR — Three days after escaping from the high-security Central Jail here, two inmates facing trial in separate POCSO cases were successfully apprehended in Rajasthan by Srinagar police on Wednesday, an official said. Farman Khan of Rajasthan’s Sadanpora area and Mukhtar Ahmed Gujar of Sanglan Chittergul in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district escaped from Central Jail […]
KATHMANDU — Seventeen people were killed and nearly 500 others, including 105 Indians, are missing after a massive flash flood originating in Tibet swept through central Nepal districts, causing devastation in towns and villages, washing away bridges and damaging at least a dozen hydropower projects on Wednesday. The flood surged through the Bhote Koshi River […]
JAMMU — Two labourers were killed in separate accidents in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, with one crushed to death after a concrete bridge pier collapsed in Samba district and another dying after falling from a bridge under construction in Jammu, officials said. A pier of a bridge under construction collapsed at Jakh Morh in […]
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 […]
