JAMMU – Police on Wednesday claimed to have arrested a truck driver hailing from south Kashmir’s Anantnag district with Rs 30 lakh unaccounted cash in Gangyal area of Jammu division. A police statement said that Mohammed Iqbal, son of Abdul Aziz, a resident of Shadi Wala Verinag in Anantnag driving the truck bearing registration number […]
NEW DELHI – India recorded 267,334 cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) on Wednesday, and the number of new fatalities stood at 4,529, according to the Union health ministry dashboard. With this, the country’s cumulative infection tally went up to 25,496,330 while the death toll soared to 283,248. As the second wave of Covid-19 slows […]
KULGAM – The Jammu and Kashmir police on Wednesday said that they arrested an accused, allegedly involved in raping a minor girl, within an hour after receiving a complaint in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district. In a statement, a spokesperson said that a girl (Name withheld) aged about 14 years along with her father approached the […]
Sheikh Nadeem ANANTNAG – Sub-District Hospital Achabal Anantnag is a hope for multiple villages of Anantnag district. The hospital was without a X-ray facility and patients were facing the difficulties to get X-ray’s at Private diagnostics Centers. DDC Member Samina Hussain along with Senior National Conference Leader Hashim Hussain visited the Hospital on Monday and […]
The Palestinian envoy to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, has pleaded with the world body to gather more humanitarian aid for Gaza amid intense Israeli bombing, as the Security Council held its fourth meeting on Israel’s attacks without issuing a statement. A convoy of international aid trucks that started rolling into Gaza crossing from Israel, Kerem […]
ANKARA – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Tuesday met his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi in Ankara to discuss the situation in Palestine amid continual Israeli bombardment. Discussed Israel’s atrocities in Palestine, our relations and Afghan peace process, Cavusoglu said on Twitter. “Nothing can shake our resolve as we stand shoulder to shoulder with […]
CAIRO – Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has announced the allocation of $500 million for reconstruction efforts in the Gaza Strip. El-Sissi’s office said in a Facebook post Tuesday that Egyptian firms would contribute in the re-building efforts. Egypt, which is leading mediation efforts to reach a cease-fire, has sent some two dozen trucks carrying […]
SRINAGAR – Counter Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) apprehended two persons from Srinagar’s Batamaloo area on Tuesday morning and recovered brown sugar like substance from them. Sources told that a team from CIK led by Inspector Sajad Ahmed after receiving specific input, intercepted a load carrier (JK02BG 2430) and after frisking the two persons on board including […]
NEW DELHI – The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Tuesday said that 269 doctors across the country have lost their lives due to COVID-19 infection in the second wave of coronavirus pandemic. The IMA said Bihar suffered the largest number of casualties (78) followed by Uttar Pradesh (37) and Delhi (28). State-wise data by IMA […]
PULWAMA – A non-local inmate at Sub-Jail Pulwama who had been arrested in connection with a drug case died in Pulwama hospital. Official sources told that an accused felt unconscious at Sub-Jail Pulwama. He was shifted to District Hospital Pulwama where doctors declared him dead. The deceased identified as Harpinder Singh son of Harbajan Singh, […]