SRINAGAR — J&K Students Association here today urged Kashmiri students studying outside Kashmir not to write provocative content on social media. In a statement, the National Spokesperson of the Students Association, Nasir Khuehami said, we urge all Kashmiri students studying outside Kashmir to desist from any activity that could disrupt peace. He said that a […]
SRINAGAR — A shopkeeper was seriously injured after unknown assailants on late Wednesday night attacked him with a sharp-edged weapon in Zoogipora Khag in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district and looted cash from him. A Police official said that prima facie it seems that assailants attacked the shopkeeper to loot a cash-filled bag from him. He […]
KUSHINAGAR (UP) — Thirteen women and children, all girls, died after falling into a well while performing a marriage ritual in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar district, police said on Thursday. The incident, in which at least 10 people were also injured, took place at Naurangiya Tola village when an iron grille, they were sitting on, broke, […]
NEW DELHI — With 30,757 people testing positive for the coronavirus infection in a day, India’s total tally of cases rose to 4,27,54,315, while the recovery rate crossed the 98 per cent-mark again, according to Union health ministry data updated on Thursday. The death toll has climbed to 5,10,413 with 541 daily fatalities, the data […]
SRINAGAR — Partly cloudy weather continued in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh on Thursday as the Met Department forecast same erratic weather conditions during the next 24 hours. The minimum temperature again dropped below the freezing point in Srinagar on Thursday after three days. Srinagar recorded minus 1.0, Pahalgam minus 4.5 and Gulmarg minus 7.3 […]
JAMMU — A 20-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a man in Rehari Colony area of the old city in Jammu, Hindustan Times reported. The accused has been identified as Mohan Singh, 32 of Chattisgarh, who works as a car washer. “The incident took place on Monday when the victim was alone in her rented […]
JAMMU — The Anti Narcotic Task Force (ANTF) on Wednesday arrested two alleged smugglers with 29 kg hashish from their possession worth crores in the market, officials here said. The ANTF foiled the smuggling bid acting on the information it received about a truck going outside Jammu and Kashmir. According to the information, the truck […]
JAMMU — An earthquake of magnitude 3.5 hit Jammu and Kashmir’s Katra on Thursday morning. As per the National Center for Seismology (NCS), the earthquake occurred at the depth of five kilometres and about 84 km East of Katra at around 3:03 am. “Earthquake of Magnitude:3.5, Occurred on 17-02-2022, 03:02:45 IST, Lat: 33.08 & Long: […]
NEW DELHI — GAIL India Ltd plans to lay a pipeline to Srinagar to take the environmentally friendly natural gas to the Kashmir Valley as it doubles down on efforts to expand infrastructure to helm the government vision of a gas-based economy, its chairman and managing director Manoj Jain said. GAIL will by May 2023 […]
SRINAGAR — Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader, Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjura on Wednesday joined back as party’s General Secretary and said that all the issues, which led to the resentment have been sorted. Hanjura said that the resignation tendered by him from the party posts, was not accepted by the president, Mehbooba Mufti. However, he […]
