SRINAGAR – By any indication or analysis, the killers of Kashmirs eminent cleric-politician Mirwaiz Maulvi Mohammad Farooq have achieved nothing—none of their perceived goals—in the last 31 years of the bloodshed in the valley. Contrarily, thousands from Kashmirs host of human genres, including clergymen, politicians and intellectuals, perished in the senseless violence. The 45-year-old cleric […]
GANDERBAL – In order to make quick bucks from hapless labourers, staffers from Dr Lal Path Lab conducted RT-PCR tests in an open forest and charged Rs 1800 per head without seeking permission from Chief Medical Office Ganderbal here in Central Kashmir. There are scores of labourers from different parts of Kangan town of Ganderbla […]
SRINAGAR – A man from Iqbal Abad area of Bemina Srinagar on Thursday appealed authorities to release his 22-year-old son Nayeem Ahmed Mir and others languishing in Agra jail from last four years. Abdul Hameed Mir was quoted by news agency Kashmir News Trust saying, “Besides my son there are other young boys who are […]
PULWAMA – Unidentified burglars made an unsuccessful bid to steal cash from a branch of Jammu Kashmir Bank in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Sources told that during the intervening night of 19 and 20 May, some unknown burglars tried to steal cash from Drabgam branch of J&K Bank in Pulwama district. The burglars managed to […]
SRINAGAR – A family from Hyderpora area of Srinagar city Thursday appealed Inspector General of Police to personally intervene and get the ‘murderer’ arrested. The aggrieved family alleged that Parimpora Police Station is resorting to dilly dally tactics and is not arresting the murder accused. Bilal Ahmed Beigh, a resident of Gulshan Abad Hyderpora arrived […]
SRINAGAR – Dr Tarannum Riyaz, a noted Urdu fiction writer and wife of former Kashmir University Vice Chancellor, Riyaz Punjabi, passed away on Thursday. The family sources told local daily that Dr Tarannum died at a hospital in New Delhi at around 9.30am today. She had tested positive for Covid19 and was put on a […]
KUPWARA – The Jammu and Kashmir Police Tuesday claimed to have arrested two persons along with 6 live grenades in main market in North Kashmir’s Kupwara district. A police spokesman in a statement, said that based on a specific information regarding the movement of some individuals, Kupwara Police established a special Naka in Kupwara main […]
URI – Police with the help of locals fished out the dead body of a shepherd who was drowned in a nallah while grazing the cattle in Uri area of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Quoting police sources news agency Kashmir News Trust reported that a shepherd slipped and fell into Jabla nallah in Uri when […]
GAZA CITY – The Gaza Strip’s already feeble health system is being brought to its knees by the fourth war in just over a decade. Hospitals have been overwhelmed with waves of dead and wounded from Israel’s bombardment. Many vital medicines are rapidly running out in the tiny, blockaded coastal territory, as is fuel to […]
NEW DELHI – India recorded 276,110 new cases of the coronavius disease (Covid-19) in a 24-hour span, the Union health ministry data showed on Thursday morning. The total tally of the viral infection now stands at 25,772,440. Thursday’s numbers show India continues to maintain a downward trend in daily Covid-19 cases after the number of […]