BUDGAM — A 25-year-old man was hospitalized after he consumed some poisonous substance at his home at Basantwooder area of Khansahib in central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Monday. A police official that a 25-year-old man name (withheld), a resident of Basantwooder area of Khansahib has consumed some poisonous substance at his home. He was immediately […]
SRINAGAR — Traders in Jammu and Kashmir have expressed their resentment over the UT administration’s decision to end the 149-year- old practice of bi-annual Durbar Move saying it would hurt Jammu’s economy and also, increase the void between the two regions, the New Indian Express reported. Surinder Mahajan, president of Raghunath Bazar Businessmen’s Association, said: […]
NEW DELHI — Two men were arrested from central Delhi in connection with stealing cars here and selling them in Kashmir, police said on Sunday. The accused have been identified as Showket Ahmad Malla (25), a resident of Baramulla district in Jammu ad Kashmir, and Mohammad Juber (22), a resident of Shamli district in Uttar […]
SRINAGAR — Twenty-Five Days after, the 17-year-old daughter of Mohammed Afzal of Bilawar area of Kathua was allegedly abducted by Vijay Kumar, the family has demanded the whereabouts of their daughter. “The SHO told me that my daughter had issued a video in which she had said that she accepted Hinduism by her own choice […]
BANIHAL — A woman was among two people injured in attack by wild animals in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district on Sunday, officials said. The first incident took place in Chapnari Guddar area of Banihal when Wazeera Begum returning to her house was attacked by a wild bear, they said. She is being treated at […]
PARIS — The premises of Al Ghazali Institute of the Grand Mosque of Paris was defaced with Islamophobic and racist inscriptions on Sunday. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin condemned the act as “unacceptable degradation” and assured to find the perpetrators of these acts. The incident took place at the institute’s campus in the southern city of […]
SRINAGAR — A meeting of the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) was held here on Sunday, the first such meet after Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s all-party meeting on Jammu and Kashmir in New Delhi on June 24. The meeting of the leaders of the alliance, which seeks the restoration of the special status of […]
CHANDIGARH — Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Sunday said the Centre should not put conditions if it wants to resume talks with the protesting farmers. His remarks come after Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar asserted that the three new central agriculture laws would bring revolutionary changes in the lives of farmers, and […]
MANILA — A Philippine air force C-130 aircraft carrying combat troops assigned to fight Muslim militants crashed and exploded while landing in the south Sunday, killing at least 42 army soldiers on board and three civilians on the ground in one of worst disasters in the air force’s history. At least 49 other soldiers were […]
KARACHI — Pakistan’s national security advisor has accused India of orchestrating last month’s deadly car bombing in the eastern city of Lahore, saying Sunday that an investigation has shown it was organized by an Indian intelligence operative. In a news conference in Islamabad, Moeed Yousuf said the probe showed that the man was an Indian […]