JAMMU — A 7-year-old boy died after getting trapped under snow in remote Marwah area in Kishtwar district, officials said on Tuesday afternoon. The boy Mutarif Shabir son of Shabir Ahmad Lohar, a resident of Talwar village in Marwah, lost his life before he could be rescued, they said. A police official told GNS that […]
SRINAGAR — A police constable died of a massive heart attack at a training center in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, officials said. “Roop Singh, a resident of Jammu, suffered heart attack at Sheeri training center and was declared dead shortly after”, the officials told GNS. The necessary medical and legal formalities into the matter have […]
SRINAGAR — A suspicious bag near Qamarwari here led to a bomb scare but nothing was eventually found by the BDS summoned to the place on Tuesday. Amid two grenades blasts, one near PCR and another at Saraf Kadal, ahead of R-Day celebrations in last two days in Srinagar, the abandoned bag led to the […]
JAMMU — In Jammu and Kashmir, nearly 33 lakh individual golden cards have been issued by the authorities since 2020 under Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY), reveals official data. As per the official figures under Sehat scheme, 33.70 lakh health-golden or Sehat-cards have been issued to individuals in Jammu and Kashmir. Besides, in J&K […]
Bol ki lub azad hein tayre Sheikh Mudasir Muneer When the mobile phone was launched in India, predominantly in Kashmir, it was weened that angels were born on earth and people used it with great enthusiasm. Systematically, mobile phones moved from affluent to average and then to the penurious. Nowadays you can’t see a herdsman […]
SRINAGAR — Amid fresh snowfall, Army on Tuesday said it rescued at least 14 civilians, who had got stuck after twin avalanches hit Tanghdar-Chowkibal highway of Kupwara district in north Kashmir. The avalanches, triggered by snow on Tuesday morning, blocked Tangdhar-Chowkibal road and 14 civilians including a child were stranded along with their vehicles. “Army’s […]
SRINAGAR — Kashmir Valley including Srinagar received light rains while some plains and higher reaches had light to moderate snowfall since overnight, officials said on Tuesday. Amid cloud cover, the night mercury increased across J&K and Ladakh with only three weather stations set up by the meteorological department here recording below sub-zero temperature. A meteorological […]
JAMMU — A man was arrested for allegedly kidnapping and raping a minor girl from Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Tuesday. While the 14-year-old girl was rescued from the house of her abductor in Poonch district, the accused was arrested from a locality in Jammu within three weeks of the incident, […]
KABUL — Two earthquakes rattled Afghanistan’s western Badghis province along the border with Turkmenistan on Monday afternoon, killing at least 22 people, a local official said. There were fears the death toll could rise further as the first rescuers reached some of the remote villages struck by the temblors in what is one of Afghanistan’s […]
NEW DELHI — India reports 2,38,018 fresh cases of Covid-19, positive cases of coronavirus declined as 20,071 less cases are reported on Tuesday as compared to reported figures of January 17, positivity rate today falls to 14.43 per cent in a day. Recovery rate stands at 94.09 per cent as total of 1,57,421 recoveries were […]