UNITED NATIONS — Pakistan is looking for peace with all its neighbours, including India, but sustainable peace and stability in South Asia remain contingent on a just and lasting solution to the Kashmir dispute, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said here on Friday. In his address to the high-level UN General Assembly session, Shehbaz claimed that […]
NAGPUR — Skipper Rohit Sharma blazed away to an unbeaten 46 as India registered a series-levelling six-wicket win over Australia in the second T20I here on Friday. Chasing 91, Rohit scored 46 off 20 balls which included four boundaries and as many sixes to take India over the line with four balls to spare in […]
SRINAGAR — Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid Srinagar condemned the continuous restrictions on its head and Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir Muhammad Umar Farooq as according to the statement he was not allowed to leave his residence for delivering the Friday sermon to the faithful at the historic central Jama Masjid Srinagar. Anjuman in a statement said that like the […]
UDHAMPUR — At least four persons including three sisters died after drowning in a Nallah at Chetredi village of Tehsil Ramnagar in Udhampur district on Friday, an official said. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that at about 1430 hrs, an information was received that four people including three sisters who had […]
SRINAGAR — A motorcyclist was killed after getting hit by a speeding passenger cab in Bijbehara of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district, official sources said. They told GNS that a motorcycle bearing registration number PB35U 8190 was hit by a van bearing registration number DL5CF 2629 near Samthan Bijbehara, resulting in critical injuries Aaqib Ahmad Dar […]
SRINAGAR — The villages near Line of Control (LoC) in the northern region of Kashmir are now a new habitat for trekkers and tourists coming from different parts of the country. Not only from Kashmir valley but people from different states are exploring the tourist spots and enhancing the government’s initiatives of border tourism in […]
SRINAGAR — Deputy Inspector General of Police, Central Kashmir Range, Sujit Kumar and Senior Superintendent of Police, Srinagar, Rakesh Balwal have been awarded DG CRPF’s commendation disc and certificate for their outstanding performance in the successful conduct of Amarnath Yatra-2022. Rakesh Balwal, a son of the soil, has been awarded DG CRPF’s commendation disc and […]
SOPORE — Amid rising wild animal attacks in Kashmir especially in North Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir’s Wildlife Protection department on Friday issued an advisory to avoid man-wild animal conflict. In an advisory, issued by Wildlife Warden North Division Sopore, officials advised people not to move alone in the forest area. The advisory reads that children […]
NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to list after Dussehra vacation the pleas challenging the Centre’s decision to abrogate provisions of Article 370 which had given special status to Jammu and Kashmir. A bench comprising Chief Justice Uday Umesh Lalit and justices Indira Banerjee and S Ravindra Bhat took note of the […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir government has attached a KAS officer for poor performance in implementing SBMG plan in summer capital Srinagar. Commissioner Secretary Rural Development and Panchayat Raj according in an order said, “In the interest of administration Nighat Alam, JKAS, Assistant Commissioner (Panchayat) Srinagar is hereby attached in the Directorate of Rural Sanitation, […]