WASHINGTON — US Vice President JD Vance on Thursday issued an extraordinary rebuke to Israeli critics of the Iran deal, warning them not to alienate their “only powerful ally” left in the world. Vance told members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet to “wake up and smell the reality,” amid growing tensions between Netanyahu […]
CAIRO — The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in Gaza has reached more than 1,000 since a U.S.-brokered ceasefire last October, the enclave’s health ministry said on Thursday, as at least three people were reported killed in the latest strike. Medics said an Israeli strike hit a vehicle on the main Omar Al-Mokhtar […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Nalin Prabhat on Thursday flagged off 45 mountain rescue teams for deployment along the twin routes for Amarnath Yatra. The 45 teams — comprising Jammu and Kashmir Police, State and National Disaster Response Forces, Central Reserve Police Force, Sashastra Seema Bal and Border Security Force — […]
SRINAGAR — PDP leader Iltija Mufti on Thursday said there should be a cap on tourist vehicles entering Kashmir to protect the valley’s fragile environment. “The sudden traffic surge in Srinagar this year, especially the Boulevard-Nishat route, has a lot to do with tourists driving into the Valley instead of flights. Given the state of […]
JAMMU — Three women sustained injuries after being attacked by bears in two villages of Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Thursday, officials said. The attack took place in the Shamer and Gadar hamlets in the Mandi belt of the border district. A medical officer at the Poonch district hospital said that two of the […]
LONDON — Oil prices fell more than 1% on Thursday to their lowest since the first trading day of the Iran war, as a U.S.-Iran interim deal to end the conflict, reopen the Strait of Hormuz and ease sanctions on Tehran boosted the global supply outlook. Brent crude futures were down $1.02, or 1.28%, at […]
JAMMU — A commercial property belonging to an alleged drug peddler was demolished and another property attached in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, police said. Five drug peddlers, including a woman, were also arrested with narcotic substances amid an intensified anti-drug campaign across the Jammu region, a police spokesperson said. He said […]
JAMMU — One more government employee was on Wednesday terminated from service for his alleged involvement in terror activities in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. Lt Governor Manoj Sinha ordered the dismissal of Mohd Shafi, posted as inspector in Power Development Department (PDD), with immediate effect, the officials said. The LG administration has so far […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday inaugurated and laid foundation stones for 18 major projects, worth approximately Rs 100 crore, in Bandipora district. These multisectoral projects span higher education, roads, bridges, clean drinking water, urban development, and agriculture infrastructure, and aim to directly address the key needs of the local […]
TEHRAN — US President Donald Trump and Iran’s president signed a deal Wednesday meant to end the Middle East war, with Tehran agreeing to dilute its enriched uranium in return for large-scale economic relief. Trump put his signature to the memorandum of understanding during a candlelit dinner at the Palace of Versailles following a G7 […]