SRINAGAR — A day after attaching him with DPL Srinagar, Station House Officer at Nishat police station has been placed under suspension along with the Head Constable following a preliminary investigation into allegations of bribery against the duo, officials said on Monday. A police official told KDC that the police Head Constable had allegedly approached […]
BUDGAM — A 23-year-old mentally unsound youth was found hanging at his home in Khag area of Budgam on Monday morning. Sources said that a mentally unsound youth from Kokerbagh Khag was found hanging following which he was subsequently rushed to PHC Khag where doctors declared him brought dead. “The body will be handed over […]
SRINAGAR — A 25-year-old civil engineer from south Kashmir’s Kulgam district died of heart attack in Saudi Arabia on Sunday. Reports said, one civil engineer namely Mustakeen Ahmad Pandit, son of Nazir Ahmad Pandit, a resident of Dessan Yaripora area in Kulgam was working with Tabook Alwaj Company in Saudi Arabia. On Sunday he suffered […]
RAJOURI — One person was killed while 56 passengers were injured in a road accident at Lam area of Nowshera sub division of Rajouri. Officials said that an accident took place when a bus on way to Nowshera from Lam plunged into a roadside gorge. “Fifty six persons were injured in this accident, who have […]
NEW DELHI — India has reported 1,270 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, continuing with its trend of clocking less than 2,000 daily cases for the last several days. The fresh number of infections takes the tally of confirmed coronavirus cases in the country to 4,30,20,723. The number of active coronavirus cases has […]
SRINAGAR — The weather remained dry with clear sky in J&K and Ladakh on Monday after Jammu city recorded the highest ever March temperature at 37.3 degrees Celsius the previous day. “Jammu recorded 37.3 degrees Celsius as the maximum temperature yesterday. This is the highest ever recorded in the month of March. The last highest […]
NEW DELHI — Petrol price on Monday was hiked by 30 paise a litre and diesel by 35 paise, taking the total increase in rates in the last one week to Rs 4-4.10 per litre. Petrol in Delhi will now cost Rs 99.41 per litre as against Rs 99.11 previously while diesel rates have gone […]
SRINAGAR — Inspector General of Police Kashmir Vijay Kumar on Sunday said that honest and innocent civilians should not be worried a bit regarding implementation of law on attachment of properties of those sheltering militants. “Honest and innocent citizens don’t have to worry a bit about the implementation of law regarding action against house owners […]
MUMBAI — A day after Mehbooba Mufti remarked that peace would be elusive in Kashmir until the Centre holds dialogue with Pakistan and people of Jammu and Kashmir, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said the PDP chief could make such comments as the BJP had given people like her strength by forming government with her […]
RAMBAN — PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday reiterated her call to the BJP government for dialogue with Pakistan and the people of Jammu and Kashmir, saying that peace would be elusive as long as Kashmir remained unresolved. She called upon people to vote for the constituents of the People’s Alliance for Gukpar Declaration (PAGD) […]
