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 […]
JAMMU — Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday lashed out at the BJP, accusing it of targeting relatives of political adversaries and questioning what he termed the party’s inability to “compete directly.” “Is your (BJP’s) system so weak that you cannot compete with us directly, and instead go after family members?” Abdullah said while addressing […]
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 […]
SRINAGAR — Three policemen, including an officer, were injured in a road accident in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Monday, officials said. The incident took place when a police vehicle skidded off the road in the Babreshi area near Gulmarg in the north Kashmir district, and the three cops, including an officer, received injuries. […]
JAMMU — At least 21 people were killed and 51 injured on Monday when an overcrowded passenger bus plunged nearly 100 metres down a hillside in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district, crushing an auto-rickshaw before landing upside down on the road below, officials said. An Army convoy passing along the hilly stretch led the rescue […]
SRINAGAR — Commuters across the Kashmir Valley faced a harrowing time on Monday as private buses and inter-district cabs remained off the roads in protest against the government’s proposal to expand Smart City bus services in other districts. The All Jammu and Kashmir Transporters’ Welfare Association on Saturday called for a Valley-wide ‘chakka jam’ (road […]
JAMMU — Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday lashed out at the BJP, accusing it of targeting relatives of political adversaries and questioning what he termed the party’s inability to “compete directly.” “Is your (BJP’s) system so weak that you cannot compete with us directly, and instead go after family members?” Abdullah said while addressing […]
JAMMU — In the wake of a student losing her life after falling off a moving bus last week, hundreds of female students from a government college for women staged a protest in Gandhi Nagar here on Monday, demanding justice. In a tragic incident, Anjali Choudhary, a fourth-semester student of GCW Gandhi Nagar, died after […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday reviewed the ongoing work on the 2.79-kilometre-long Sungal tunnel project on the Jammu–Poonch Highway, which is scheduled to be completed later this year. “On his way to Nowshera, the chief minister today inspected the ongoing work on the Sungal Tunnel project and reviewed the […]
JAMMU — Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday hit out at the BJP-led central government over what he termed as its “unfulfilled promise” of restoring statehood to Jammu and Kashmir, and said there was “no clear answer” from it on the issue. The chief minister also targeted the BJP over the issue of the implementation […]
JAMMU — Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday announced ex-gratia relief from the CM’s relief fund for victims of a tragic road accident that claimed 21 lives and left 29 others injured in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district. Officials said that a passenger bus rolled down a hillside at Kagort on the Ramnagar–Udhampur road, crushing […]
Kathua, Apr 18: Minister for Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs, Transport, IT, Youth Services & Sports, Satish Sharma on Friday visited Kathua and interacted with members of the public at Brahman Sabha here. Addressing the gathering, Sharma outlined the government’s roadmap for holistic development of Jammu and Kashmir, with emphasis on youth empowerment, infrastructure […]
JAMMU — Separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah was arrested by the NIA in connection with a three-decade-old terror case and remanded in the agency’s custody for 10 days by a special court on Saturday, officials said. Shah was arrested by the Srinagar branch of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday in the 1996 case […]
