KULGAM — A policeman posted at District Police Lines Kulgam died of cardiac arrest on Monday. Sources told Kashmir News Trust that the cop was performing his duty when he collapsed and died on the spot. Sources added that the cop died of cardiac arrest. He has been identified as Bilal Ahmed, a resident of […]
SRINAGAR — Government on Monday ordered transfer of 13 JKAS officers in the interest of administration with immediate effect. According to an order issued by the government, Tariq Hussain Ganai, JKAS, Director, Rural Sanitation, J&K, has been transferred and posted as Director, Hospitality and Protocol, J&K, against an available vacancy. Rakesh Kumar Srangal, JKAS, Director, […]
NEW DELHI — Ministry of Information and Broadcasting suspended the telecast of Malayalam news channel MediaOne over security concerns. According to reports, the regional television channel was found backing the Jamaat-e-Islami. Thus, the Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry citing “security reasons. took to its suspension. Media One went off air on Monday noon. Media One […]
THANE — Union minister Kapil Patil has said that Pakistan-administered Kashmir (PoK) will probably come back to India by 2024. He was speaking at an event in Kalyan city in Maharashtra’s Thane district. The Minister of State for Panchayati Raj also said that Modi has not become the prime minister for bringing down the prices […]
SRINAGAR — Police on Monday issued summons to two journalists, Fahad Ahmad Shah and Majid Hairdari in connection with case registered following a gunfight in Pulwama in which officials said that four militants were killed. A case a FIR (18/2022) under section 307 IPCV, 7/25 IA Act, and sections 16, 18,20,38 ULA(P) A has been […]
SRINAGAR — Amid forecast for light rain and snowfall, night temperatures recorded a rise in Kashmir Valley on Monday. A meteorological department official here told GNS that Srinagar, the summer capital of the J&K recorded a low of minus 1.6°C against last night’s minus 2.3°C on the previous night. While the ‘Chillai Kalan’, the 40-day […]
NEW DELHI — The Editors Guild of India has written to the probe panel instituted by the Supreme Court, asking it to inquire into the claims by the recent New York Times report on Pegasus and also investigate the alleged use of the spyware against Indian citizens. The Guild, in a press statement, said that […]
NEW DELHI — With 2,09,918 people testing positive for the coronavirus infection in a day, India’s total tally of cases increased to over 4.13 crore, according to Union health ministry data updated on Monday. The death toll has climbed to 4,95,050 with 959 fatalities reported in a span of 24 hours, the data updated at […]
NEW DELHI — Trinamool Congress MP Santanu Sen has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the issue of Jammu and Kashmir being shown as a part of China and Pakistan on the site of the World Health Organisation (WHO). “On the site of ‘WHO COVID-19,’ there are two different colours on Jammu […]
LUCKNOW — After the ‘Dharm Sansad’ (religious gathering) at Haridwar in Uttarakhand last year, yet another ‘Dharm Sansad’ called for making India a ‘Hindu Rashtra’ even as the seers refused to recognise Mahatma Gandhi as the Father of the Nation and Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru the first prime minister of the country. The Uttarakhand ‘Dharm […]