SRINAGAR — Police in Ramban launched a wide scale search operation to locate a Lucknow family believed to have gone ‘missing’ along Srinagar-Jammu highway at Ramsu, since Friday morning. SSP Ramban Mohita Sharma told GNS that the search operation was launched after a family from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh informed through social media that their […]
SRINAGAR — A total of 275 doctors and paramedics of various hospitals in Kashmir have tested positive for COVID-19 since January 1 this year, officials said on Sunday. Professor and Head of Department, Community Medicine, GMC Srinagar, Dr Salim Khan said 145 doctors, 130 MBBS students and 130 paramedics have tested positive for COVID-19 in […]
ISLAMABAD — Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani prisoner in the United States whose release was reportedly demanded by a Texas hostage-taker this weekend, is serving an 86-year sentence for the attempted murder of American soldiers. Four people were freed unharmed on Sunday following a more than 10-hour stand-off at a synagogue in the US state. Their […]
SRINAGAR — A civilian and a policeman were injured after the unidentified persons hurled grenade in Saraf Kadal area of Srinagar, official sources said on Sunday. They said that unknown militants lobbed a grenade towards joint team of police and CRPF at Saraf Kadal, resulting in injuries to two persons. The injured have been identified […]
SRINAGAR — Authorities on Sunday said that record 74593 covid-19 tests were carried out on Sunday. “J&K continues to implement an aggressive Covid Testing strategy. Highest number of tests today: 74593. (Jammu: 34544, Kashmir: 40049),” Health Health & Medical Education Department J&K said in a tweet as per GNS. “We appreciate the efforts of the […]
BIJNOR (UP) — A private ‘bank’ that promised Muslims to keep their money secured, has duped hundreds of people of their money and the main accused has reportedly fled to Dubai. According to the police, hundreds of villagers in the Nagina area have lost the hard-earned money they had deposited with ‘Al Faizan Muslim Fund […]
NEW DELHI — The Editors Guild of India Sunday condemned the manner in which the office and the management of Kashmir Press Club (KPC) were “forcibly taken over” by a group of journalists with the help of armed policemen. A few journalists accompanied by policemen reached the KPC Saturday and claimed to be the “new […]
SRINAGAR — At least three persons from Poonch were killed even as another person critically injured after a vehicle carrying them met with a fatal accident in Chamba in Himachal Pradesh this afternoon. Identifying the deceased as Bashir Ahmed son of Samad Sheikh; Bashir Ahmed son of Ghulam Mohd and Mohd Iqbal son of Ghulam […]
SRINAGAR — Amid the surge in COVID-19 cases, the Jammu and Kashmir administration on Saturday re-imposed weekend lockdown and said that night curfew shall continue to remain in force in all districts from 9 pm-6 am with complete restrictions on non-essential movement in the Union Territory. “Night curfew shall continue to remain in force from […]
SRINAGAR — A massive fire has broken out inside ‘Sherwani Hall’ in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Reports said that the fire broke out around 2:15 PM this afternoon inside the structure –used as banquet hall for political and social functions. A Fire and Emergency Department official confirming it told GNS that men and machinery were […]