UMAISAR GULL GANIE KULGAM — Two lecturers, working in the School Education department Saturday claimed to have discovered a “gigantic fossil site” while scouting for fossil samples near world famous Aharbal waterfall in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district. As per reports, the gigantic fossil site was discovered by two lectures namely Manzoor Javaid and Dr Rouf […]
MADRID — Until last week, Shabeer Ahmadi was busy covering the news in Afghanistan. But after a hasty and excruciating decision to leave his Taliban-controlled country for an uncertain future in Spain, he’s helplessly glued to news feeds on his cellphone, following every twist in the dramatic end of the evacuation of Afghans from Kabul. […]
WASHINGTON — Any sustainable solution in Afghanistan must include Pakistan, a senior Republican Senator has said. “We all must remember (that) Pakistan is a nuclear-armed nation, and there is a Pakistan version of the Taliban who wishes to topple the Pakistani government and military,” Senator Lindsey Graham tweeted, in an apparent reference to Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Friday said that the country will continue to play its constructive role in support of the efforts to promote peace and stability in strife-torn Afghanistan. Qureshi on Friday held a telephonic conversation with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and the two leaders exchanged views on the […]
SRINAGAR — The United Nations has expressed concern about the “alleged arbitrary detention and intimidation” of journalists in Jammu and Kashmir. UN officials Irene Khan and Elina Steinerte sought a reply from the Indian government within two months about what measures it had taken to ensure that journalists were able to work in a safe […]
SRINAGAR — Senior CPI(M) leader M Y Tarigami on Friday filed a plea in the Supreme Court seeking an early hearing of the petition challenging the constitutional validity of the Centre’s decision to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. In his petition, Tarigami said despite the challenge to the constitutional validity of orders […]
RAJOURI — Jammu and Kashmir police arrested a Sarpanch with consignment of narcotics in Rajouri district on Friday. The arrested person is a Sarpanch of a panchayat near Line of Control (LoC) as well as an advocate in Jammu. In a press conference, Superintendent of Police Sheema N Qasba told that a team of Sunderbani […]
SRINAGAR — Security forces on Friday said that during a search on specific information it has recovered some ammunition in Tawheedgunj area of old town of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district. According to news agency Kashmir Dot Com, 46 RR and 53 battalion of CRPF found 9 Live Rounds and 46 empty cases of 7.62 mm […]
SRINAGAR — The Government on Friday decided to reduce the syllabi of private candidates of secondary and higher secondary classes of Jammu and Kashmir by forty percent following the closure of schools in view of COVID-19 pandemic. Jammu Kashmir Board of School Education (JKBOSE) has said, “In view of prevailing COVID-I9 pandemic, concession shall be […]
BEIJING — China on Friday expressed shock at the deadly suicide attacks at Kabul airport, saying the security situation in Afghanistan remained “complex and grave” and offered to work with the international community to deal with terrorist threats and prevent the war-ravaged country from becoming a hotbed of terrorism. During a media briefing here, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian […]