ISLAMABAD — Senior U.S. and Iranian leaders were in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Saturday for negotiations to end their six-week-old war, although Tehran threw the talks into doubt by saying they could not begin without commitments on Lebanon and sanctions. The U.S. delegation, led by Vice President JD Vance and including President Donald Trump’s […]
SRINAGAR — PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday said if the Centre wants real peace in Jammu and Kashmir, it will have to focus on winning the hearts of the people. “If you want real peace and prosperity in Jammu and Kashmir, it is not possible until the Centre attempts to win the hearts of […]
DHAKA — Former Bangladesh captain Tamim Iqbal became the youngest head of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Tuesday, after the National Sports Council dissolved the BCB’s board of directors following an investigation into elections held in October. A committee found irregularities in the BCB’s election process, the NSC’s sports director Mohammed Aminul Ahesan told […]
JAMMU — The CAG has expressed serious concerns about the large-scale encroachment of over 2,500 kanals and ecological degradation of Hokersar Lake, warning that the wetland is facing rapid deterioration, and its “pristine glory” is at risk of extinction. The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) pulled up authorities for the failure of conservation and management […]
SRINAGAR — The Kashmir State Investigation Agency (SIA) on Thursday filed a chargesheet against 10 accused persons in the ‘white collar’ terror module case involving several doctors from Jammu and Kashmir. “The SIA Kashmir filed the chargesheet in a significant terrorist conspiracy case involving a covert module commonly referred to as the ‘Doctors Terror Module’,” […]
SRINAGAR — PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday said if the Centre wants real peace in Jammu and Kashmir, it will have to focus on winning the hearts of the people. “If you want real peace and prosperity in Jammu and Kashmir, it is not possible until the Centre attempts to win the hearts of […]
SRINAGAR — Kashmir’s chief preacher Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Thursday urged the Centre to release Lok Sabha MP from Baramulla Sheikh Abdul Rashid on humanitarian grounds and allow him to visit his ailing father. Rashid is currently lodged in Tihar jail in a UAPA case on terror funding charges. He was arrested in 2019 and […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir Government Thursday approved the promotion of Qazi Abdul Qayoom as Director Prosecution in the Prosecution Department. According to an order issued by the Home Department, the promotion has been effected on the recommendations of the Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission. Prior to this elevation, Qayoom was serving as […]
SRINAGAR — A man lost his life while four others were injured after the truss of an under-construction cold storage unit fell down due to strong winds in Lassipora area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Thursday, officials said. An official told news agency Kashmir News Observer that due to strong winds the under construction […]
JAMMU — The Jammu Division of Northern Railway on Wednesday said it will operate a Joint Parcel Product-Rapid Cargo Service (JPP-RCS) train between Adarsh Nagar in New Delhi and Budgam in central Kashmir from April 17, offering relief to traders in the Valley, particularly fruit growers and handicrafts merchants. The service will run regularly on […]
JAMMU — The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday said a major narcotics network with interstate and cross-border links was busted with the arrest of most-wanted drug kingpin Gulzar Ahmad alias Lau Gujjar along with several of his associates. Senior Superintendent of Police (Jammu) Joginder Singh said Gujjar had been supplying narcotics in bulk quantities […]
SRINAGAR — A man accused in a rape case registered in 1987 was arrested in Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam district on Wednesday, nearly 39 years after he had been on the run, police said. The accused, identified as Bashir Ahmad Ganaie, a resident of Drer Kalipora in Shopian district and presently living in Kulgam, was […]
JAMMU — Kashmiri Pandits on Wednesday held protests in Jammu, demanding a two-fold increase in monthly relief from the existing ceiling of Rs 13,000 per family. They accused the authorities of failing to revise the assistance for the past eight years. Led by the community leader Ravinder Koul, scores of protestors gathered at the Press […]
