GANDERBAL — Three persons were injured after a passenger cab skidded off the road fell down into a gorge in Sonamarg area of Ganderbal district in Central Kashmir on Sunday. Quoting an official news agency KNO reported that a passenger cab (Tavera) bearing registration number JK01X 4504 coming from Sonamarg towards Srinagar skidded off the […]
BARAMULLA — Security forces in the Kashmir region have been largely successful in reducing the number of militants while the remaining ones are facing an ammunition shortage, a top army official said here Sunday. The army offical said that the security forces have stepped up anti-miltancy operations and have set a target to bring down […]
SRINAGAR — The Kashmir Chamber of Commerce & Industry (Inc) President Sheikh Ashiq Ahmad Saturday said that the Chamber has been continuously calling attention of the State and Central Government to the unfair rate of airfare applied by different airlines operating on Kashmir air routes. According to statement, KCCI president said that the airfares for […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Police have arrested a man for committing an unnatural sexual offense upon a minor boy in the Chadoora area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. Police in a press release said they received a written complaint from parents of minor boy that their son has been kidnapped by one Mohammad Sidiq […]
Famous tourist resorts Pahalgam and Gulmarg also recorded season’s coldest night SRINAGAR — Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday recorded the coldest night of the season at minus 5.8 degrees celsius. “With minus 5.8 as the minimum temperature today, Srinagar recorded the coldest night of the season so far. Cold, dry […]
SRINAGAR — Two extortionists who were pretending to be militants to extract money from shopkeepers were arrested in Srinagar, police said on Saturday. Police said that two extortionists namely Mohd Younis Zargar of Khushipora and Mohd Rafiq Bhat of Natipora were arrested for issuing fake threat letters to shopkeepers for monetary gains pretending to be […]
SRINAGAR — Five players from Jammu division are set to feature in IPL 2023 but not a single cricketer from Kashmir could get through during the auction. The players which were bought in auction on Friday in Kochi include Vivrant Sharma who was brought by SunRisers Hyderabad on Rs 2.6 crore, Avinash Singh for Rs […]
MUMBAI — Television and Bollywood actress Tunisha Sharma dies by suicide on Saturday after she was found hanging in make up room on the sets of her TV show Ali Baba: Dastaan-E-Kabul. “TV actress Tunisha Sharma committed suicide by hanging herself on the set of a TV serial. She was taken to a hospital where […]
Mudasir Yaqoob SRINAGAR — The Srinagar Court has recorded the statement of main accused in the acid attack case on a girl here in February 2022 after incriminating material were found against him during the trial. The Principal District and Sessions Court Srinagar put 55 questions before the accused to which he recorded the statement […]
JAMMU — Former Jammu and Kashmir deputy chief Minister Tara Chand said on Saturday said that resigning from the Congress in support of Ghulam Nabi Azad was a “blunder”. Chand, however, said they will remain secular till their last breath and would have no objection in joining the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra when it […]