SRINAGAR — A man on Wednesday allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself at his home in Nowpora Bala village of Keegam hamlet of South Kashmir’s Shopian district, officials said. They said that the person identified as Inamul-Haq @Baber son of Farooq Ahmad Kaloo was immediately shifted to a local hospital, where doctors declared him dead. […]
MUMBAI — The first case of XE, a more transmissible Covid-19 variant, was detected in Mumbai on Wednesday, a civic health official said. A case of the Kappa variant was also detected during a sero survey, the official said, adding the results came in genome sequencing of 376 samples, the 11th batch of testing in […]
LUCKNOW — Ghazipur Police on Monday, 4 April, registered an FIR against unidentified persons for raising slogans and climbing atop a mosque in Gahmar village in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur district. A video of the incident has also been shared on social media, in which the group can be heard singing raucously and raising ‘Jai Shree […]
BENGALURU — After several right-wing organizations launched campaigns against using loudspeakers at mosques, Bengaluru city police on Tuesday started seizing microphones from places of worship that allegedly defied court orders on noise pollution. On Tuesday, city police commissioner Kamal Pant said that several microphones were seized from religious places where court orders were violated and […]
WASHINGTON — The White House has reiterated that it is not in India’s interest to “accelerate or increase” imports of Russian energy and other commodities, while offering to work with New Delhi to help it reduce its reliance on imports from Moscow. Responding to questions on the visit of top Indian-American US advisor Daleep Singh […]
NEW DELHI — The ministry of information and broadcasting has directed the blocking of 22 YouTube-based news channels, of which four are from Pakistan, for allegedly spreading fake news to mislead viewers. This is the first time that action has been taken against the Indian YouTube-based news publishers since the notification of the IT Rules, […]
SRINAGAR — At least 34 persons belonging to minority communities have been killed in Jammu and Kashmir since 2017, Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said on Wednesday. While replying to a question of parliamentarian Mahesh Poodar about attack on minorities in J&K, Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs Nityanand Rai said that […]
SRINAGAR — Driver of Tempo vehicle was critically injured in a “cylinder blast”outside Botanical Garden here on Wednesday, officials said. A senior police officer told GNS the cylinder blast took place in a tempo vehicle near Botanical and tulip gardens. “Driver was critically injured and has been hospital,” the officer said. He said that ‘impact’ […]
SRINAGAR — In the past three years the foreign tourist arrivals in Kashmir Valley have dipped by almost 95.22 percent. However, among the domestic tourist arrivals, the visitor entrance has increased nearly by 20 percent. According to the official figures, in the past three years, the highest number of foreign tourist arrivals in Kashmir valley […]
PATTAN — A man was killed and a woman was injured during a scuffle in Gund Abrahim area of Pattan in Baramulla district on Wednesday morning. Reports said that a scuffle broke out between two families over some land dispute in the village. They said that during the scuffle a man was attacked with an […]