QAZIGUND — A 22-year-old youth was electrocuted to death while pruning trees in Qazigund area of South Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Sunday, an official said. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that a youth identified as Suhail Ahmad Bumboo, son of Abdul Rashid Bumboo of Nipora while pruning trees received an electric […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu Srinagar National Highway has been closed for vehicular traffic due to shooting stones and landslides at Ramban, officials said on Sunday. “Jammu Srinagar National Highway blocked due to continuous shooting stones and mudslide at Cafeteria Mehad Ramban,” Jammu and Kashmir Traffic police said. The highway is the lifeline of Kashmir valley […]
NEW DELHI — More than 130 former civil servants on Saturday wrote an open letter to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) against the premature release of 11 men who were jailed in the gangrape case of Bilkis Bano and requested him to rectify this “horrendously wrong decision”. They asked the CJI to rescind the […]
SRINAGAR — Apni Party president Syed Altaf Bukhari on Sunday launched a blistering attack on former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, saying that he has struck a deal with the Bharatiya Janta Party and was responsible for abrogation of Article 370 Addressing a public gathering in south Kashmir’s Bijbhera area, as per news agency Kashmir […]
KULGAM — A 22-year-old youth from South Kashmir’s Kulgam district was found dead under mysterious circumstances in Gujarat, even as his family members smell foul play and demanded an investigation into the matter on Sunday. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that a student identified as Sameer Ahmad Thokar (22) son of […]
SUMBAL — A woman was killed, while her husband was critically injured in a road accident near Shadipora on Srinagar-Bandipora highway on Sunday morning. An official told that an oil tanker had a head-on collision with a scooty near Higher Secondary School Shadipora today morning. He said that in the incident scooty rider namely Syed […]
NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court on Monday will hear a batch of petitions challenging the Karnataka High Court ruling that wearing Hijab was not an essential practice in Islam. A two-judge bench headed by Justice Hemant Gupta and also comprising Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia will hear on August 29, Monday, the batch of appeals against […]
SRINAGAR — Weather was partly cloudy in Jammu and Kashmir during the last 24 hours as the Meteorological (MeT) office said on Sunday that partly cloudy sky with rain at isolated places is likely during the 24 hours in the union territory. “Partly cloudy sky with light to moderate rain at isolated places is likely […]
SRINAGAR — The National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar administration has directed students not to create any kind of indiscipline in the institute or hostel in view of ongoing Asia Cup 2022 tournament in Dubai wherein India and Pakistan cricket teams will face each other on Sunday. A notice issued by Dean Students Welfare reads, […]
JAKARTA — A cargo ship with 15 people on board sank in the Makassar Strait of central Indonesia, leaving 11 people missing, an official said on Saturday. The ship was hit by huge waves while sailing in the waters between Kalimantan island and Sulawesi island on Monday but the accident was found out by a […]