SRINAGAR — A Sub-Inspector of Jammu and Kashmir police, who was critically injured on Sunday afternoon after suspected militants fired upon a police party in Khanyar area of Srinagar, succumbed to his injuries at the hospital. Official sources told that a Police Sub-Inspector identified as Arshid Ahmad was injured after unknown gunmen fired upon a […]
SRINAGAR — A Sub-Inspector of Jammu and Kashmir police was on Sunday afternoon critically injured after suspected militants fired upon a police party in Khanyar area of Srinagar. Official sources told that a Police Sub Inspector identified as Arshid Ahmad was injured after unknown gunmen fired upon a naka party near Police Station Khanyar. “The […]
SRINAGAR — Bodies of four members of a family were found and at least one member is still missing following a cloudburst in Rafiabad area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, officials said on Sunday. Police sources told that calamity struck the hilly area of Hamam Marcoot and hit the Bakerwal (nomad) family comprising at least […]
SRINAGAR — At least five members of a nomad family are feared dead in a cloudburst in Rafiabad area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Police sources told GNS that calamity struck the hilly area and hit the Bakerwal (nomad) family comprising at least five members even as numbers could vary and possibility of higher figure […]
KABUL — Afghan women wearing full face veils sat in rows at a Kabul university lecture theatre Saturday, pledging commitment to the Taliban’s hardline policies on gender segregation. About 300 women — covered head-to-toe in accordance with strict new dress policies for education — waved Taliban flags as speakers railed against the West and expressed […]
GULMARG — A nomad family from North Kashmir’s Baramulla district claimed that on Friday night 20 sheep were killed after lightening struck Bootapathri Dhok near Gulmarg. The sheep belonged to one Muhammad Iqbal Cheechi son of Ghulam Qadir Cheechi, a resident of Katianwali area of Baramulla Iqbal told news agency Kashmir News Trust over phone […]
SRINAGAR — Stating that authorities have not taken any decisions for opening of schools upto class 8th, Director School Education Kashmir Tasaduq Hussain Mir said there will be 30 percent reduction in syllabus for students and examinations will begin from first week of November. “There will be 30 percent reduction in syllabus and students will […]
HANDWARA — A 40-year-old Kashmiri shawl seller belonging to north-Kashmir’s Handwara area of Kupwara district was found dead in Haryana on Saturday morning, reports and officials said. Mohammad Shafi Shah son of Mohammad Satar Shah, a resident of Lillam in Ramhall Handwara, as per the family was found dead at his rented accommodation at Shalferi […]
SRINAGAR — Anganwari helpers Saturday staged a protest making an emotional appeal to the government asking it to stop disengaging them. Scores of Anganwari Helper to supervisor amid rains assembled at Press Enclave on Saturday saying that government without giving any second thought disengaged over 900 helpers to supervisors in Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) […]
GANDERBAL — Anti Narcotic Task Force J&K recovered 1,000 kilogram of poppy straw from three Punjab based trucks in Sonmarg and Ladakh. Official sources said that ANTF received an input regarding smuggling of narcotic substance in two trucks plying from Valley to Leh. Upon receipt of this information a team of ANTF was constituted which […]