NEW DELHI — The Mi-17V5 helicopter crash near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu that killed Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika and 11 others brought back memories of a 1963 chopper accident in which six officers were killed in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch. The crash in Poonch is considered as one […]
ISLAMABAD — The Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) General Nadeem Raza and the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa have expressed condolences over the death of India’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat and his wife Madhulika Rawat who died in a helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu. […]
SRINAGAR — The Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory Manoj Sinha on Wednesday expressed deep shock over the demise of (CDS) Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, his wife and 11 others in a helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu. In a tweet LG Manoj Sinha said, “Deeply shocked at tragic demise of […]
NEW DELHI — Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Bipin Rawat and his wife, Madhulika Rawat, died on Wednesday, along with 11 other persons, after an Army chopper carrying them crashed in the Nilgiri Hills in Tamil Nadu. Confirming the news, the Indian Air Force tweeted, “With deep regret, it has now been ascertained that Gen […]
SRINAGAR — The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Wednesday said that post abrogation of article 370, no Kashmiri Pandit has been displaced from the Valley while as 366 militants, 96 civilians and 81 security personnel were killed since August 5, 2019 in J&K. The Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai in a written reply […]
KULGAM — A 45-year-old lineman of the Power Development Department (PDD) was on Wednesday injured due to electric shock at Kilam village of South Kashmir’s Kulgam, an officials said. An official told that the PDD lineman identified as Fayaz Ahmad Shah (45) son of Muhammad Yousuf Shah, a resident of Kilam came in contact with […]
SRINAGAR — While sub-zero conditions prevailed, weatherman on Wednesday forecast dry weather at most places across J&K and Ladakh till December 15 with “warmer pleasant days and colder night” expected during the time. “Barring light snow over Zojila-Drass area during December 8 to 9, the weather is mainly going to be dry till December 15,” […]
POONCH — A BSF inspector died due to cardiac arrest on Wednesday at the paramilitary force’s 5 battalion headquarters in Mankote area of this mountainous district. Official sources told GNS that at around 0700 hours inspector Madan Lal had sudden heart attack in BSF’s 05 headquarters at Uchhad in Mankote sector of Mendhar Sub Division. […]
NEW DELHI — The world’s biggest vaccine maker Serum Institute of India (SII) on Tuesday said it will reduce the production of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine — marketed as Covishield in India — by at least 50 per cent from next week as government orders have dried up. Adar Poonawalla, chief executive officer of SII, told […]
SRINAGAR — Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) J&K spokesman Altaf Thakur Tuesday took a jibe at PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti by staging a protest in New Delhi along with just six persons of the party stating that the PDP chief should give logic as to how she could bring back something that had been rolled back […]