PULWAMA — A sarpanch escaped unhurt in a suspected militants attack in Arihal village of Pulwama district in South Kashmir on Saturday. Sources said, sarpanch identified as Ghulam Nabi Kumar was fired upon by suspected militants at his native village. He escapes unhurt in the incident. Soon after the incident, the area was cordoned off […]
BUDGAM — A 23-year-old youth was found hanging in the Brenwar area of central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Saturday. A police official said that the victim (name withheld), a resident of Brenwar Budgam was found hanging at his home this morning. A case under relevant sections of law has been registered in to the incident, […]
JAMMU — The Jammu and Kashmir administration is making arrangements to create 20,000-capacity lodgements in the Jammu division for the upcoming annual pilgrimage to the cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir Himalayas, a senior official has said. Jammu Divisional Commissioner Raghav Langer said the 2020 and 2021 Yatras to the shrine situated at an […]
NEW DELHI — India Saturday recorded its lowest single-day rise in Covid infections since May 12, 2020 as 3,614 fresh cases pushed the overall tally to 4,29,87,875 infections, even as the number of active cases dipped to 40,559, the Union Health Ministry said. The death toll due to the viral disease went up to 5,15,803 […]
SRINAGAR — Weather remained dry and sunny in Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh on Saturday as the MeT department forecast dry weather interspersed with periods of sunshine and clouds during the next 24 hours. “Weather is likely to remain dry with periods of sunshine and clouds during the next 24 hours in Jammu & Kashmir […]
NEW DELHI — The Congress’ “G-23” leaders, at their meeting held on Friday after the party’s debacle in the latest round of Assembly polls, are understood to have sought that there be no more delay in electing the new party President. They also called for an AICC session to discuss the poll results, sources said. […]
NEW DELHI — The NIA has arrested six people who were allegedly part of a syndicate involved in the illegal trafficking of Rohingya Muslims into Indian territory, an official said on Saturday. The network was operating in the border areas of Assam, West Bengal, Meghalaya as well as other parts of the country, the official […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir has suffered the most under the BJP regime, senior Congress leader and MP Rajni Patil alleged Thursday, asserting that in run-up to the assembly elections, the Congress will intensify its ideological fight against the saffron party and its policies towards the union territory. She was addressing workers meeting on Friday […]
NEW DELHI — Implementation of QR-code based Geographical Indication (GI) tag for Kashmiri hand-knotted carpets will discourage their counterfeit production and enable buyers to identify authenticity of carpets produced in the union territory, an official said on Friday. The QR-code based mechanism has recently been introduced for the purpose of testing and certification of hand-knotted […]
SRINAGAR — The government on Friday said that the employees of School Education Department (SED) of Kashmir division, who have been provided government accommodation by estates or other departments have to pay rent of that accommodation to the estates department. In an official communiqué issued by the Directorate of School Education Kashmir (DSEK), “It is […]
