SRINAGAR — The India Meteorological Department on Saturday forecast hot and dry weather for Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh during the next 24 hours. “Hot and dry weather is expected in J&K and Ladakh during the next 24 hours”, an official of the MeT department said. Meanwhile, Srinagar registered 14.2 dgrees Celcius, Pahalgam 5.8 and […]
NEW DELHI — India’s COVID-19 caseload increased to 4,31,19,112 on Saturday with 2,858 fresh infections, while the number of active cases came down to 18,096, according to Union health ministry data. The death toll climbed to 5,24,201 with 11 more fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases comprise 0.04 per cent […]
JAMMU — Border Security Force (BSF) personnel deployed along the International Border (IB) here fired several rounds at a drone coming from the Pakistani side on Saturday morning, forcing it to retreat, an official said. A massive search operation was launched in the area to ensure no weapons or narcotics were dropped by the flying […]
NEW DELHI — As many as 27 people died and 12 got injured as a massive blaze ripped through a four-storey commercial building in outer Delhi’s Mundka on Friday, police said. The fire started from the first floor that houses the office of a CCTV cameras and router manufacturing and assembling company, they said, adding […]
NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court on Friday sought a response from the Centre, Jammu, and Kashmir administration, and Election Commission of India (ECI) on a plea of two Kashmir residents challenging the government’s decision to constitute the delimitation commission for redrawing the assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies in the Union Territory. A bench of […]
SRINAGAR — Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti on Friday said that she has been placed under house arrest in Srinagar as she wanted to visit the slain Kashmiri Pandit’s family for condolences. “Wanted to visit Budgam to express my solidarity with Kashmiri pandits protesting against GOIs failure […]
KUPWARA — At least four persons, including a father son duo, died in a probable case of asphyxiation while cleaning a well in Keegam area of frontier north Kashmir’s Kupwara district. Local sources told GNS that commotion broke out in Keegam Kandi this afternoon after news spread of four persons falling unconscious while cleaning a […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Police on Friday said that it was constrained to “hurl” few teargas smokes to disperse protesting Kashmiri Pandits for their “security”. “Today at about 1100 hours protesters who were protesting against the yesterday’s killing of an employee (Rahul Bhat) at Chadoora had blocked main Sheikhpora Budgam road since yesterday afternoon […]
SRINAGAR — Government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team to probe “all aspects” attack leading to the killing of Kashmiri Pandit employee inside tehsil office Chadoora in centrl Kashmir’s Budgam district. The government also attached concerned Station House Officer. “A decision has been taken to constitute special investigative team to probe all the aspects […]
NEW DELHI — The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday filed a charge sheet against seven people, including its former officer Arvind Digvijay Negi and Kashmiri human rights activist Khurram Parvez, in a militant funding case. The charge sheet was filed in a special NIA court in New Delhi against former Superintendent of Police Negi, […]