SRINAGAR — In a inspiring gesture Srinagar police Chief SSP Sandeep Chaudhary decided to pay Rs one lakh from his pocket to a 90-year- street food vendor who was robbed on Saturday evening in the old city of Srinagar. Abdul Rahman, a roadside channa seller, was thrashed by some bugglers at Bohri Kadal Srinagar on […]
NEW DELHI — The Centre on Sunday brought an ordinance to extend the tenure of Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) directors up to five years. President Ram Nath Kovind has signed off the ordinance. The central government is expected to table a law in the Parliament during the forthcoming Winter Session […]
SRINAGAR — Google has sought more details from the Jammu and Kashmir Police on its demand of records related to email exchanges of Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra, a close aide of PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti, in connection with his alleged links with Pakistan-based secessionist leaders and militants, officials said here on Sunday. According to officials, they had […]
RAMBAN — A man and his minor daughter were killed while his wife was injured after a truck rammed into their private car on Srinagar-Jammu national highway in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday. An official said that a truck heading towards Kashmir hit several vehicles, including a car and two passenger cabs […]
NEW DELHI — Schools, colleges and educational institutes in the national capital will be closed for physical classes for a week from Monday because of the deteriorating air quality, the Delhi government announced on Saturday after an angry Supreme Court termed the rise in pollution an “emergency situation”. Online teaching and learning will continue in […]
KARACHI — Pakistan fast bowler Hasan Ali has apologised for his forgettable outing against Australia in the T20 World Cup semifinal, saying he is more disappointed than anyone else and pledged to come back stronger from this bad phase of career. In the 19th over of the match, Ali dropped Matthew Wade off Shaheen Shah […]
NEW DELHI — An initial investigation in the dastardly attack on the convoy of the commanding officer of an Assam Rifles unit by militants in Manipur’s Singhat has shown that it was “well-planned”, sources said, adding that its difficult to believe that two proscribed militant organisations – the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and the Manipur […]
PULWAMA — In a classic act of communal harmony and amity, members of Muslim community Sunday performed last rites of an elderly deceased Pandit in Washbugh in south-Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Kanhaiya Lal, 80, as learnt by GNS, was putting up as a lone family member at Washbugh and died of prolonged illness on Saturday evening. […]
SRINAGAR — The Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir is gripped with drug addiction as a huge chunk of the population has become drug addicts. During the maiden meeting of the state-level committee of the narco coordination centre held on Friday under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary, Dr. Arun Kumar it was informed that as […]
SRINAGAR — A 32-year-old private school teacher allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself to death on Sunday in Khrew hamlet of pampore area in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. An official told that a youth (name with held) who was working as teacher in a local private school village allegedly ended his life by hanging self […]