SRINAGAR — Two Army personnel and two local girls were held outside Srinagar airport on Saturday morning, sources said. They said that two local girls along with two army soldiers were caught by local shopkeepers at Srinagar Airport market on Saturday morning. The Army soldiers are said to be from 2-RR and girls are said […]
ZOJILA PASS — The strategic Srinagar-Leh highway was Saturday thrown open in a record time of just 73 days on trial basis by the Beacon authorities, which otherwise would remain closed for five to six months altogether leaving the Ladakh region totally cut-off. The Beacon men cleared the snow at Zojila pass and other vulnerable […]
RAJOURI — Snow clearance operation has started on a massive scale to clear the Mughal Road. The operation was carried out under the Mechanical and PWD Mughal Road wing with the latest heavy machinery. With heavy snowfalls hitting the high altitudes, the Mughal road was closed in the area thus disturbing the transportation of the […]
JAMMU — Union Home Minister Amit Shah Saturday said the biggest achievement of Centre post Article 370 abrogation in J&K was that for the first time “we have a decisive control over terrorism.” He said J&K government has successfully managed to ensure over Rs 33000 Cr investment while as democracy has been taken to grass-roots […]
NEW DELHI — India’s COVID-19 tally increased to 4,30,06,080 on Saturday with 2,075 fresh infections, while the active cases declined further to 27,802, according to Union health ministry data. The death toll due to the viral disease climbed to 5,16,352 with 71 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases comprise […]
NEW DELHI — National Investigation Agency (NIA) court has ordered framing of charges against Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed and Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin, Kashmiri separatist leaders including Yasin Malik, Shabir Shah, Masarat Alam and others under various sections of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). The Court also ordered framing of charges against Kashmiri […]
SRINAGAR — Rain lashed the plains while light snowfall occurred in the higher reaches of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh on Saturday as the MeT department forecast the same weather to continue during the next 24 hours. “Rain in the plains and light snowfall in the higher reaches is likely to occur in J&K and […]
UNITED NATIONS — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for action against racial discrimination. “Realizing the vision of a world free of racism and racial discrimination demands action every day, at every level, in every society,” he told a commemorative meeting of the General Assembly on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination […]
KASARAGOD — A 14-member Kerala family that tried to enter war-torn Yemen to study Islam was denied entry and sent back by the Yemeni border security, reported The New Indian Express. The Salafist family headed by a couple from Kasaragod and Kozhikode returned to Kerala on March 7, said an officer of the Special Branch. […]
GENEVA — The World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that the ongoing conflict in Ukraine is further threatening global food security, with food prices already at an all-time high. Jakob Kern, the WFP’s Emergency Coordinator for Ukraine, told an online press conference that the conflict has triggered a wave of hunger across the globe, Xinhua […]
