PARIS — The world’s largest whale graveyard has been discovered at the bottom of the Indian Ocean by Chinese scientists, who found that the vast expanse of both new and ancient carcasses supports huge communities of deep-sea life. It is also the deepest and oldest known whale graveyard on Earth, according to research published in […]
LONDON — England captain Ben Stokes and team-mate Gus Atkinson have been dropped from the squad for next week’s second Test against New Zealand at the Oval, the England and Wales Cricket Board announced Wednesday. The pair are currently facing an ECB probe for breaking the team’s midnight curfew following England’s win in the first […]
SRINAGAR — Police on Wednesday arrested a local leader on charges of sexually assaulting a minor girl in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir. Officials said Riyaz Ahmad Shaikh, a resident of Nowshera in Boniyar Tehsil, was arrested following a 17-year-old girl’s complaint of sexual assault. A case has been registered against Shaikh, who was […]
ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani army MI-17 helicopter crashed due to a technical fault in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on Wednesday, killing all military personnel on board, the military said. The military did not immediately disclose how many people were aboard the helicopter. The crash occurred near Muzaffarabad, the regional capital, during an ongoing protest and strike called […]
SRINAGAR — Kashmir’s chief preacher Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Wednesday expressed concern over the situation in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK), and called for restraint and dialogue. The Mirwaiz’s remarks came after more than 20 people were reportedly killed in recent police action on protesters in several parts of PoK. On Tuesday, India came down hard on […]
NEW DELHI — India is working to ensure “not a single drop of water” will flow into neighbouring Pakistan, the water minister has said, after New Delhi suspended a major treaty last year. Pakistan has previously said it would consider any attempt to change the flow of cross-border waterways as an “act of war”, and […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday formed a five-member committee to inquire into circumstances that led to the malfunctioning of Gulmarg cable car services last month. The General Administration Department (GAD) appointed the Managing Director of Kashmir Power Distribution Corporation Limited, Mahmood Shah, as chairman of the committee, which has been asked to […]
JAMMU — A massive fire reduced nearly two dozen hutments to ashes in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district early Wednesday, leaving several migrant workers homeless and causing extensive damage to household belongings, officials said. The fire broke out in a cluster of temporary dwellings adjacent to a scrapyard at Maggar Khad in the Chak Gota […]
JAMMU — Police have arrested two alleged drug peddlers on Wednesday in separate operations in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district, recovering narcotics valued over Rs 50 lakh, along with a weighing machine and cash, from them, officials said. Acting on information, a police team from Vijaypur police station set up a checkpoint at Tarapur Road […]
JAMMU — Authorities on Wednesday demolished two residential houses allegedly belonging to drug peddlers here as part of an ongoing crackdown against narcotics trafficking and illegal assets linked to the drug trade, officials said. The houses of Falla Gujjar and Bashir Ahmad at Chak Waziru in Bishnah area on the outskirts of Jammu were demolished […]