SRINAGAR — Authorities yet again disallowed Friday prayers at historic Jamia Masjid. Anjuman Auqaf said that keeping the historic Jama Masjid continuously closed seems deliberate being done intentionally as part of an agenda. Anjuman Auqaf also demanded the release of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq from house detention. In a statement, Anjuman Auqaf said that State Authorities […]
MUMBAI — The Cyber Cell of Mumbai Police’s crime branch have made three arrests in connection to the obscene comments made against Muslim women on an audio-chatting application, Clubhouse. Police said that all three arrests were made from Haryana and Faridabad and they will be produced before a local court there for transit remand. According […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir Police has released the photographs of three wanted militants in the Kashmir Valley. Police has released the photographs of three militants who are said to be residents of Kulgam, Pulwama and Srinagar. These photographs were pasted on walls in Summer capital Srinagar. As per Police Basit Ahmad Dar @Kamran […]
NEW DELHI — Travellers arriving in India from any country who will test positive for COVID-19 shall be treated/isolated as per the laid down standard protocol and will not mandatorily be managed at an isolation facility, authorities have said. According to the revised Guidelines for International Arrivals’ released on Thursday, the new norm will apply […]
CHENNAI — Principal of the Ekalavya Model Residential School in Tamil Nadu’s Chengalpattu, and the hostel warden have been arrested for concealing the rape and pregnancy of a 16-year-old tribal student, police said on Thursday. The girl consumed rat poison and died on Tuesday night at the Tiruvannamalai General hospital after battling for life for […]
HYDERABAD — Prime Minister Narendra Modi would unveil a 216-foot statue of Ramanujacharya, an 11th century saint and a social reformer, in Hyderabad on February 5. The statue, described as the ‘Statue of Equality’, is located in a 45-acre complex at Shamshabad on the outskirts of the city. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate the […]
NEW DELHI — The Delhi government has proposed lifting weekend curfew, end odd even system for opening of shops and allow private offices to run with 50 per cent staff in the city, official sources said on Friday. The proposal has been sent to Lt Governor Anil Baijal for his consent, they said. The decision […]
JAMMU — Army and police on Friday claimed to have recovered 31 kilograms of narcotics along the Line of Control in Poonch district. “Based on inputs of likely smuggling of Narcotics through the Line of Control in Poonch, Indian Army along with JKP launched relentless operations in the area,” Lt Col Devender Anand, Jammu-based PRO […]
SRINAGAR — Amid forecast for widespread moderate rain and snow on weekend, night temperature recorded an increase in J&K, except Gulmarg and Pahalgam, on Friday. A meteorological department official here told GNS that Srinagar, the summer capital of the J&K, recorded a low of 2.8°C against last night’s 2.2°C. Kashmir is presently under the grip […]
NEW DELHI — India on Friday recorded 3,47,254 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), according to the latest data released by the Union health ministry. The country also recorded 703 fatalities in the last 24 hours, the ministry’s data further showed. The active cases of Covid-19 topped the two-million mark as the Omicron-led surge […]