NEW YORK — The US State Department has said that sixty six Indian-origin terrorists were operating abroad with the global terrorist organisation Islamic State (IS) which is also present in India, IANS reported. The number was as of November and none of the foreign terrorist fighters was repatriated to India last year, said the annual […]
SRINAGAR — A 50-year-old paramilitary CRPF trooper posted in Lal Chowk area, the commercial hub of Srinagar, died of heart attack, officials said on Friday. They said that Head constable (driver) Sharvan Kumar Of 19th battalion CRPF had cardiac arrest at around 03:20 a.m. at Akhara Lalchowk area of Srinagar. He was shifted to hospital […]
MUMBAI — Ex-INX media executive Indrani Mukerjea today made a sensational statement, claiming that her daughter Sheena Bora is alive and in Kashmir. Indrani Mukerjea, who is accused of murdering Bora and is currently serving time in prison for the same, has written a letter to the investigating agency as well the special CBI court […]
SRINAGAR — Intense cold conditions prevailed in J&K and Ladakh with Srinagar recording a low of minus 3.8°C on Friday. A meteorological department official here told GNS that the mercury in the summer capital was down from previous night by 1.8°C and overall it was below 2.3°C than than the normal for this time of […]
SRINAGAR — An elderly woman was allegedly killed by her non-local servant at her home in Lal Bazar area of Srinagar on Thursday. The accused has, however, been arrested on way to Jammu, five hours after committing the crime. Official sources said that a lady identified as Mala Puffi, 85, wife of Late Ghulam Ahmad […]
SRINAGAR — National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday raided at multiple locations in Kashmir and arrested an accused in a ‘militancy conspiracy’ case “Today, NIA conducted searches at four locations in Sopore and Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir and arrested one accused person identified as Irfan Tariq Antoo of Kral Tang, Sopore in a case […]
SRINAGAR — Mobile phones, which were originally designed for communication purposes are currently being abused for a variety of ways. Playing internet games has become a frequent tendency among the kids in this digital era. Experts believe that rather than seeing technological advancements as a blessing for improving one’s intellectual ability, young people have come […]
SRINAGAR — Strange but true is the fact that the Directorate of School Education Kashmir (DSEK) is either unaware of the posting of some of its teachers who have not been transferred even after a decade or is least interested in bringing major transformations in the department. The teachers at government-run-schools believe that the ATD […]
KARACHI — The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and Cricket West Indies (CWI) have issued a joint statement after five more positive cases were reported in the West Indies camp following Wednesday’s PCR testing, raising the total number of positive cases to nine since their arrival in Karachi on December 9. “On Thursday morning and as […]
SRINAGAR — All Parties Hurriyat Conference on Thursday condemned the arrest of a woman and her daughter by the authorities for sloganeering near the military operation site in Srinagar. On 13 December, police said that two militants were killed in a military operation conducted by a joint team of armed forces in Rangreth area of […]