JAMMU — Two people, wanted in two separate cases of rash driving, were arrested on Saturday after a manhunt of 25 years in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district, police said. Rajit Singh and Amarjeet Singh, both residents of Jammu, were arrested by special teams from their hometown after developing reliable inputs about their whereabouts, a […]
SRINAGAR — Deputy Mayor, Srinagar Municipal Corporation Parvaiz Ahmad Qadri alongwith several concerned corporator accompanied with officers of the corporation, Jal Shakti Department and Drainage department visited the various of City including Astan Sharief Kalashpora, Shamswari, Shallapora Allochi Bagh, Danderkah Batamaloo , SD Colony Batamaloo and Sheikh Hamza Colony Batamaloo to took on spot review […]
BANIHAL — Traffic movement on the 270-km Jammu-Srinagar national highway was restored on Saturday after remaining suspended for 12 hours as rolling stones from a hillock in Ramban district damaged a steel tunnel, officials said. The traffic from both sides of the strategic highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the […]
KUPWARA — A tipper driver died on Saturday after his vehicle plunged into Nagre nallah in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district. Officials said that a vehicle plunged into the nallah, trapping the driver inside following which a rescue operation was launched. They said that soon after the rescue operation was launched, the body of driver identified […]
SRINAGAR — The cause of the fire at Kashmir’s lone Bone and Joint Hospital in Barzulla is being ascertained, the authorities said on Saturday. However, they said that the top priority at present is to resume OPD and emergency services at the unaffected building of the hospital. Principal GMC Srinagar Dr Samia Rashid told that […]
SRINAGAR — Weather remained partly cloudy on Saturday in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh with periods of sunshine as the Met Department has predicted light rain/snow at isolated places during the next 24 hours. “Light rain/snow is likely to occur at isolated places in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh during the next 24 hours. Another […]
RAMALLAH — More than 130 Palestinian protesters were injured during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, according to medics. Witnesses said the fierce clashes broke out on Friday near the villages of Beita and Beit Dajan, located to the south and east of Nablus city respectively, and near the village of Kafr Qaddum, […]
NEW DELHI — With 5,921 people testing positive for coronavirus infection in a day, India’s total tally of Covid cases now stands at 4,29,57,477 and that of active cases is at 63,878, according to Union Health Ministry data updated on Saturday. The death toll due to the disease has climbed to 5,14,878 with 289 fresh […]
SRINAGAR — A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) man died of cardiac arrest in Maisuma area of Srinagar on Saturday morning. Official sources said that a 41-year-old CRPF man identified as Dinesh Kumar of 132 battalion fell unconscious at Dashmani Akhara Maisuma CRPF camp. He was rushed to SMHS Hospital Srinagar for treatment, where doctors […]
SRINAGAR — A youth, who set himself ablaze during a demolition drive in Ganderbal, succumbed to his injuries at SKIMS, Soura on Saturday. An official said that on Saturday, a youth namely Amir Ahmad Shah, son of Abdul Hamid of Harn Ganderbal, who set himself ablaze during demolition at Harn, succumbed. Pertinently, on 22 February […]