QUEENSLAND — Former Australian test cricketer and two-time World Cup winner Andrew Symonds has died following a car accident in Queensland, Cricket Australia confirmed on May 15. Symonds was aged 46. He had played 26 tests for Australia. Police said the accident occurred in Hervey Range, 50 km from Townsville on Saturday night. The car […]
NEW DELHI — Journalists’ organisations in India on Saturday condemned the killing of a woman reporter of Al Jazeera during an Israeli army raid in Jenin in West Bank and sought an independent probe into it. “We join the international community of journalists and others in demanding an independent and impartial investigation into the incident. […]
SRINAGAR — Drug abuse is a big challenge as it not only provides oxygen to terrorism by means of funding militant networks but also targets the younger generation, Jammu and Kashmir police chief Dilbag Singh said on Saturday. Singh, the Director-General of Police, chaired a high-level meeting with the officers of the force at the […]
SRINAGAR — An 8-year-old girl died after drowning in a river near her house at Chanigam area of Ashmuqam in South Kashmir’s Anantnag on Saturday evening, an official said. An official said that a girl identified as Aasia Fayaz (8) daughter of Fayaz Ahmad Shah, a resident of Chanigam Ashmuqam slipped and drowned into a […]
JAMMU — Jammu recorded its hottest day of the season so far with the mercury touching 43.5 degrees Celsius on Saturday as the heatwave intensified engulfing most parts of Jammu and Kashmir. The maximum temperature in Jammu city was 6.6 degrees above season’s average, forcing people to stay indoors especially in the afternoon. Jammu recorded […]
SRINAGAR — Over 13 percent women experienced violence in J&K after their marriages and husband is the main perpetrator of the violence in majority of cases. As per the National Family Health Survey 5 (NHFS-5) findings, just 14 percent of the women who have experienced violence in J&K have sought any help. The report said […]
SRINAGAR — In order to give undue benefits to some candidates and mint money, some officials at SKIMS Soura are pushing higher ups to publish selection lists which are already under scanner. Top SKIMS officials pleading anonymity said that some officials are trying to take undue benefits of the autonomous status of SKIMS and try […]
SRINAGAR — Special Investigating Team (SIT) constituted by the Jammu and Kashmir government to probe all aspects of the killing of Kashmiri Pandit employee Rahul Bhat, will be headed by Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Central Kashmir range, Sujit Kumar Singh, Officials said. He said that the SIT has been constituted and will be headed by […]
SRINAGAR — Member’s of People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) are scheduled to meet Lieutenant Governor, J&K, Manoj Sinha on Sunday at Raj-Bhawan in Srinagar. Official Sources told news agency Kashmir Dot Com that all the constituent members of PAGD would meet LG Sinha on Sunday at 11:30 am to discuss the recent killings in […]
SHEIKHPORA (BUDGAM) — Fear and anger were writ large on the faces of Kashmiri Pandit employees and their family members as they continued their protest on Saturday at the Sheikhpora transit camp in Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam district against the killing of Rahul Bhat and demanding their relocation to safer places outside Kashmir Valley. A […]