ISLAMABAD — Former Pakistan captain Mohammad Hafeez has decided to retire from international cricket, Geo News reported on Monday. Hafeez, who had announced retirement from Test cricket in 2018, had led the Pakistan cricket team in all formats of the game. In his 18-year career, the all-rounder represented Pakistan in 392 international matches in which […]
SRINAGAR — Amid forecast for moderate to heavy snowfall in next few days, the minimum temperature settled above freezing point across in J&K except Gulmarg and Pahalgam on Monday. A meteorological department official here told GNS that Srinagar, the summer capital of J&K, recorded a low of 3.0°C against previous night’s 0.3°C. It was 5.0°C […]
JAMMU — Police Department has put its 168 personnel in Jammu and Kashmir on radar for their reported involvement in subversive/criminal/corrupt activities and action against them is on the cards. Among 168 police personnel whose links with subversives are under investigation, only seven belonged to Jammu division while 161 are in Kashmir valley, Daily Excelsior […]
CHANDIGARH — In a shot in the arm of the BJP in the Municipal Corporation Chandigarh, newly elected Congress councillor Harpreet Kaur Babla and her husband Devinder Singh Babla on Sunday joined the saffron party. Now BJP’s count of councillors rose to 13 in the 35-member house, one count less than 14 councillors of the […]
PYONGYANG — Emphasizing that 2021 was the year of a huge victory of his compatriots, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his address on Saturday said that 2022 will be the year of a “life-and-death” struggle, the Korean Central News Agency (KSNA) reported on Saturday. The fourth plenary session of the Central Committee of […]
JAMMU — At least 10 people were injured on Sunday when an under-construction bridge collapsed in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. The bridge was being construction by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) in Vijaypur area of the district, the officials said. They said 10 people were rescued and shifted to hospital by […]
NEW DELHI — Jammu & Kashmir will soon become the first Union Territory in the country to have a district level Good Governance Index. Disclosing this here today after receiving an update from the newly appointed Secretary of Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG),Union Ministry of Personnel, V Srinivas, Union Minister of State […]
JAMMU — The Crime Branch of the Jammu and Kashmir Police has filed a chargesheet in a court here against four persons for allegedly duping an unemployed youth on the pretext of providing him a government job, an official said on Sunday. The chargesheeted persons included an employee of the Fire and Emergency Services and […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Sunday chaired a high-level meeting of the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board, which is managing the yatra to the temple. He announced additional ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh fpr deceased and sought reasons that led to thw stempede. Officials sources told that Lt Governor […]
SRINAGAR — A 45-year-old Carpenter was found dead in mysterious circumstances in an under construction building in humhama area of central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Sunday. Official sources told that 45-year-old Carpenter identified as Rameez Ahmad Beigh son of Arif Ahmad resident of Kandi Baramulla was found in mysterious circumstances in a under construction building […]