GANDERBAL — A snow drive to Sonamarg was on Sunday organised by Ganderbal Police and district adminstration in collaboration with Extreme off roads. The event was flagged off by Nikhil Borker Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Ganderbal near Manigam park. More than 15 vehicles participated in the event enthusiastically. The officers said that the event […]
KUPWARA — Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday said to have arrested two drug peddlers besides booking another under Public Safety Act in frontier north Kashmir’s Kupwara district. “Continuing its efforts to eradicate the menace of drugs from the society, Kupwara Police today arrested two notorious drug peddlers and recovered contraband narcotics from their possession”, […]
PUNE — A girl was allegedly raped on separate occasions by her teenage brother and their father while her grandfather and a distant uncle used to sexually assault her too, quoting Pune Police news agency PTI reported. The police added that the crime was committed over the last five years. Police have registered a case […]
SRINAGAR — Weather remained inclement in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh on Sunday as the Met Department has forecast partly cloudy sky and light rain during the next 24 hours. “We are expecting partly cloudy sky and light rain in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh during the next 24 hours,” a Department official said. Srinagar […]
SRINAGAR — A student from Rajouri area of Jammu division died after a basketball poll fell on him at Regional Institute of Management and Technology University in Mandi Gobindgarh, Punjab, sources said. They said that Faisal Ahmad Quershi, a resident of Rajouri pursuing BSC Radiology from RIMT Institute in Punjab died after a basketball poll […]
LUCKNOW — Well-known Shia cleric, Maulana Kalbe Jawad, has said that the controversy over ‘hijab’ was an “example of Islamophobia” and that Muslims should establish as many educational institutions as possible to ensure that they do not have to rely on others for education. Jawad, who is the general secretary of Majlis-e-Ulama-e-Hind, said ‘hijab’ was […]
SRINAGAR — A policeman injured in a hit-and-run case in Handwara succumbed at a hospital here on Sunday morning, officials said. They told GNS that the policeman Khurshid Ahmad Mallik son of Abdul Ahad Malik, a resident of Hangah Mawer was fatally injured after hit by an unknown vehicle at Kralgund area in Handwara on […]
BARAMULLA — A casual labourer of Power Development Department (PDD), who was critically wounded while repairing a HT-wire at Batpora area of Kunzar in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, succumbed to his injuries on Sunday. An official said that an employee identified as Waseem Ahmad Mir, son of Ghulam Muhammad Mir of Devbugh Kunzar was critically […]
NEW DELHI — India on Sunday recorded 1,761 fresh coronavirus infections, the lowest in around 688 days, that took its tally to 4,30,07,841, while the active cases declined further to 26,240, according to Union health ministry data. The death toll climbed to 5,16,479 with 127 daily fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The […]
BENGALURU — Two people have been arrested in connection with issuing death threats to the Special Bench judges of the Karnataka High Court who dismissed the petitions seeking permission to wear hijab inside the classrooms. While Kovai Rahamathulla was arrested from Tirunelveli, S. Jamal Mohammad Usmani was taken into custody from Thanjaur. Both the arrests […]