SRINAGAR — Parents and students Monday staged a protest against the merging of a private school against their will in Srinagar. The school in question is ‘Orbit Girls School’ located in Peerbagh Srinagar that according to parents has been merged with ‘World Foundation School’ without taking them into confidence. The protesters raised slogans against the […]
QAZIGUND — In yet another shocking incident, a female faith healer was looted by her disciples using chemical spray in Badragund area of Qazigund on Monday morning, local sources said. Local sources said that two unidentified thieves entered the home of Raasiya Banoo, wife of Manzoor Ahmad Najar of Badragund as a disciples and spray […]
RAJOURI — A man was killed while three other sustained injuries in a road accident in Rajouri town on Monday morning. Police officials said that the accident took place when a tempo traveller moving on Jammu-Rajouri-Poonch highway hit a tipper near Army water point station of Rajouri town, in which one person was killed and […]
SRINAGAR — The India Meteorological department has forcast widespread rain, snow across Jammu & Kashmir and Ladhakh for two days beginning Tuesday evening. “Weather remained dry in J&K and Ladakh on Monday. Widespread rain/snow is expected on February 22 and 23rd beginning tomorrow evening. There is no forecast of any major snowfall during this period”, […]
NEW DELHI — India reported 16,051 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday. As of now, the daily positivity rate stands at 1.93 per cent. As many as 206 people lost their lives due to the infection in the country in the last 24 hours. With this, […]
BENGALURU — While the High Court has banned the wearing of religious symbols by students in the classrooms of any college in Karnataka, the uniform rule for private college students in Mysore has been repealed and Muslim students have been allowed to wear the Hijab, reported the Times of India. The Mysore College has for […]
NEW DELHI — India on Sunday asked all its citizens, including students in Ukraine to leave the country immediately. This was the second advisory in the last five days by the Indian Embassy in Kyiv. The families of Indian Embassy officials, too, were ordered to return to India immediately in view of the growing danger.. […]
Mudasir Maqbool SRINAGAR — Two youth from South Kashmir’s Pulwama district have been selected to attend Global Peace Summit, 2022. Saleem Manzoor and Syed Abdul Mohsin Andrabi will attend the Global Peace Summit, 2022 that will be held in Dubai, UAE. The Global Peace Summit in Dubai will take place between 23rd to 26th February […]
BENGALURU — At least 58 female students from a college in Karnataka’s Shivamogga district were suspended on Saturday for wearing hijab and also staging an agitation demanding that they should be allowed to attend classes. The students were from Government Pre-University College of Shiralakoppa. According to the principal, the college management, development committee tried to […]
JAMMU — Authorities on Sunday arrested a few retired revenue officials and property dealers and recovered ‘unaccounted’ cash worth Rs 26 lakh as well as the revenue records during the raids at 21 locations of Jammu and Samba district in connection with a case registered regarding missing revenue records of Chowadi and Sunjuwan of Tehsil […]