ISLAMABAD — Pakistan has called in India’s Charge d’Affaires here to lodge a strong protest over the death of a Pakistani prisoner in Kashmir, in what it termed as a “fake encounter”. The Foreign Office (FO) said in a statement that the Indian Charge d’Affaires was called to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday. […]
SRINAGAR — The Special Crime Wing of Crime Branch Kashmir on Saturday produced chargesheet against a patwari (revenue official) and other person in connection with fraudulent mutation of land at Chadoora area of central Kashmir. Besides cheating and forgery, the two accused persons— Ghulam Rasool Bhat Son-in-law of Ghulam Mohammad Bhat of Repora Namthal Chadoora […]
JAMMU — Army on Saturday rescued a Hungarian trekker who had lost his way in Umasi La Pass in Himalayan Ranges from Dul area of Kishtwar. Umasi La connects Kisthwar to Zanskar and it was not immediately known if the trekker was lost in Ladakh. “Indian Army team from Dul, Kishtwar, in a 30 hour […]
SRINAGAR — Congress Working Committee (CWC) member and former Member of Parliament, Tariq Hameed Karra on Saturday repulsed back to Ghulam Nabi Azad for targeting All India Congress Committee (AICC) Vice president, Rahul Gandhi, saying that it was he who made the proposal and passed it for Rahul’s presidential post. Karra also said that the […]
NEW DELHI — The President of India Droupadi Murmu on Saturday administered the oath of office to Justice U.U. Lalit as the Chief Justice of India. Justice Lalit took the oath in the name of God in the ceremony held at the Rashtrapathi Bhavan, which had the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vice President […]
GANDERBAL — A residential house was damaged, while a man was injured in a fire incident in Ramwari area of Gund in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Saturday morning. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that fire broke in the house of Gulzar Ahmed Khan son of Khan Zaman Khan of Ramwari […]
SRINAGAR — Generally cloudy sky with possibility of light rain is likely in Jammu and Kashmir during the next 24 hours, the Meteorological (MeT) department said on Saturday. The state experienced cloudy weather on Friday. “Generally cloudy sky with possibility of light rain is likely in J&K during the next 24 hours”, an official of […]
JAMMU — A minor earthquake measuring 2.9 on the Richter scale jolted Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, increasing the number of temblors to strike the union territory to 12 in the last five days, according to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS). The NCS said the quake occurred at 4.32 a.m. on Saturday with latitude […]
JAMMU — A Pakistani intruder was arrested along the International Border here by the Border Security Force (BSF) in the early hours of Saturday, officials said. BSF personnel picked up on the movement of Mohd Shabad (45), a resident of Sialkot, while he was trying to sneak into the Arnia sector from across the border, […]
SRINAGAR — Senior Congress leader, Ghulam Nabi Azad’s resignation from primary membership of the Congress after serving the party for 52 years has added an important third dimension to the forthcoming assembly elections in J&K. While the election commission has already set the electoral ball rolling in the Union Territory by revision of electoral rolls […]