SRINAGAR (KIMS) – Three local militants were slain and and another surrendered in an anti-militancy operation in Kanigam village of Imamsahib area in Shopian district of South Kashmir on Thursday. Reports said that the anti-militancy operation was jointly launched by Government forces including Indian Army’s 44 RR (Rashtriya Rifles), CRPF and J&K Police in Kanigam […]
ISLAMABAD – Drawing a comparison between the Indian and Pakistan embassies abroad, Prime Minister Imran Khan has asked the country’s ambassadors serving abroad to abandon colonial-era attitudes and treat their diaspora with compassion. Khan on Wednesday rebuked his diplomats while addressing his envoys posted around the world virtually, for their failure to serve overseas Pakistanis […]
NEW DELHI – South Korean video game developer Krafton has announced that the India version of its popular game PUBG will be called Battlegrounds Mobile India. The game, which will be available only in India, will provide a multiplayer gaming experience on the mobile phone. This comes after the original version of the game PlayerUnknown’s […]
SRINAGAR – Separatist leader Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai has been laid to rest at Martyrs graveyard in his ancestral village in Tekipora Lolab on Thursday early morning. The authorities anticipating large participation had put strict restrictions on the entry of outside people even as disallowing the local residents from participating in the last rites of the […]
NEW DELHI – India set a new global record Thursday after the country registered its biggest single-day rise in coronavirus cases of over 412,000 in the last 24 hours. The Health Ministry reported 412,262 new cases, taking the country’s total number of infections to over 21 million. With a record 3,980 new fatalities, the death […]
UNITED NATIONS – The tragic” COVID-19 situation in India should raise the alarm bells for all of us and there will be reverberations across the region and the world in terms of virus-related deaths, virus mutations and supply delays unless the world steps up and helps the country now, the head of the UN children’s […]
SRINAGAR – Detained since July 2020, Kashmiri separatist leader and Tehreek-e-Hurriyat chairman Muhammad Ashraf Khan Sehrai passed away at a government hospital in Jammu on Wednesday, May 5. He was 78. Popular as ‘Sehrai’, the leader was shifted to the hospital after he complained of breathlessness in Udhampur jail, where he has been since July […]
NEW DELHI – A Delhi court on Wednesday asked the ED for reply on a bail plea field by Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah who claimed that there was no likelihood of the trial being completed any time soon in the money laundering case due to the current pandemic situation. Shah was arrested by the […]
AMRITSAR (PUNJAB) – Dal Khalsa on Wednesday expressed grief over the demise of Chairman of Theerek-e-Hurriyat Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai at Jammu hospital. Leaders of Dal Khalsa as per a statement issued to the news agency Kashmir News Observer expressed their condolences on Sehrai’s death. They said he was a man of principles and commitment. They […]
‘Cases of Kashmiri prisoners be reviewed for release on parole in view of deteriorating pandemic situation in India’ Srinagar: Mohmmad Syed Shah, brother of Jailed Hurriyat leader Shabir Ahmad Shah urged the Government of India and the J&K Union Territory administration to shift Kashmiri prisoners lodged in various jails of India back to the Valley […]