Srinagar: From now, if people are caught smoking in open spaces particularly in public places, the city police are likely to book them under Cigarette and Other Tobacco Products Act. The measure is being taken to curb smoking in public places, police said on Sunday. According to news agency Kashmir Dot Com, Srinagar police on […]
4×4 rescue vehicles, ambulances to be provided to Districts with immediate effect Srinagar: Manoj Sinha, Lieutenant Governor of Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has declared heavy snowfall as State Specific Natural Calamity under (SDRF) State Disaster Fund. He said that 4×4 rescue vehicles, ambulances will be provided to Districts with immediate effect. LG also […]
Aligarh (UP): A student of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has been shot dead, police said on Sunday. The deceased Atif, a second-year BA student, was returning home on a two-wheeler with his friend late on Saturday night in the Quarsi police circle area, when the assailants opened fire. Atif fell down at the spot […]
New Delhi: The World Health Organisation’s map using different colours to show J&K and Ladakh from the rest of India on its website has evoked some angry reactions from the Indian diaspora in Britain. Two newly created Union Territories of India have been marked in grey colour, separate from India which appears in navy blue. […]
Jammu: Security forces on Sunday destroyed an Improvised Explosive Devise (IED) that was recovered on Gohlad-Mendhar road in this border sub-division. An official told that the devise was recovered during night patrol by a team of police headed by SHO Mendhar Manzoor Kohli under the supervision of SDPO Mendhar Zaheer Jafri. He said that the […]
New Delhi: The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has strongly objected the new WhatsApp privacy policy through which all kinds of personal data, payment transactions, contacts, location and other vital information of a person who is using WhatsApp will be acquired by it and can be used for any purpose by WhatsApp. In a […]
Srinagar: “I still have faith in the Supreme Court of India,” says former J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah in an interview to The Wire, put up by the website on Saturday evening. But he is also anguished, he adds, at the court’s ‘complete, inexplicable and mind boggling’ lack of urgency in dealing with petitions challenging […]
Srinagar: Fog and frost on Sunday affected the pedestrian and vehicular movement in Jammu and Kashmir as the weather office said there would be improvement as the day advances. “Yesterday’s circulation still persists, but it will move away from J&K as the day advances”, an official of the local meteorological (MeT) department said. The 40-day […]
Jakarta: Eleven people were killed, 17 injured and 14 others were reported missing as landslides struck Indonesia’s West Java province, a senior disaster agency official said on Sunday. Heavy downpours triggered the landslides at Cihanjuan village of Sumedang district at about 4 p.m. on Saturday, burying eight people, head of Emergency Unit of Provincial Disaster […]
Islamabad: Pakistan was hit by a massive power blackout early Sunday, officials said, with much of the country, including all major cities, plunged into darkness. The electricity distribution system in the nation of more than 210 million people is a complex — and delicate — web, and a problem in one section of the grid […]