BUDGAM — Jammu and Kashmir Police Wednesday claimed to have solved a ‘hit and run’ case in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district by arresting the driver involved in the act. A police spokesman told that on May 30, a youth was killed after a vehicle hit him when he was riding his bike at Futlipora village […]
ANANTNAG — Amid ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, an outbreak of infectious disease, known as Foot-and-mouth Disease (FMD) has left a few cattle dead in Bijbehara area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Wednesday. The FMD erupted among the domestic cattle in Sirhama village of Bijbehara, an official said. An official told that two cows and a […]
SRINAGAR — Police have constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the claim made by a non-local woman that she was ‘gang raped’ by three persons in Ram Bagh area of Srinagar city. A non-local woman (name withheld) emerged in Press Enclave Srinagar claiming that she was sexually assaulted by three persons on the […]
BUDGAM — Police have registered a case against Brick Kiln employees after a non-local labour accused them of raping a woman and illegally confining them in a room for whole night. The alleged incident has occurred in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. Police sources told news agency Kashmir News Trust that a family from Uttar Pradesh […]
KUPWARA — Police have booked at least eight persons under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for sloganeering at the funeral of a youth who was killed in an accident recently in Kupwara district of north Kashmir. Officials on Wednesday told that four of them have been already arrested under Section 13 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) […]
NEW DELHI — India on Wednesday recorded 132,788 lakh new coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases in the past 24 hours, a marked increase from Tuesday’s single-day spike, showed data shared by the Union health ministry at 8am on Wednesday. With this, the country’s cumulative infection tally has crossed 28.3 million, mounting to 28,307,832. As many as […]
UNITED NATIONS — General Assembly President Volkan Bozkir is “saddened” by India’s reaction to his statements on Kashmir, according to his Deputy Spokesperson Amy Quantrill, who has asserted that they were taken out of context. She said at a news briefing on Tuesday, “The President was saddened to see a press statement from the Indian […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan on Tuesday launched its homemade Covid-19 vaccine named “PakVac” which it developed with the help of its ally China in order to vaccinate people in the country and bring under control the spread of coronavirus cases in the nation. Special Assistant Health Dr Faisal Sultan said that Pakistan is trying to overcome […]
NEW DELHI — The Indian Union of Muslim League (IUML) on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court to stay an order issued by the Home Ministry on May 28, empowering the collectors of certain districts to grant the Indian citizenship to to the non-Muslim migrants from the neighbouring countries despite the pendency of its 2019 writ […]
ISLAMABAD — After Pakistan and Russia signed a fresh agreement to lay a gas pipeline, prospects of Russian President Vladimir Putin visiting Islamabad for the very first time were on the cards. The project, previously named The North-South Gas Pipeline, has now been renamed as Pakistan Steam Gas Pipeline, in which a gas pipeline will […]