SRINAGAR — Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district on Monday prohibited bursting firecrackers after 10 pm, citing security and health reasons. In an order, District Magistrate Shishir Gupta said it has come to notice that fireworks in Shopian district, particularly after 10 pm, causes significant noise pollution leading to severe health hazards such as […]
JAMMU — Flash floods triggered by incessant overnight rainfall damaged the Doda-Kishtwar highway on Monday, disrupted vehicular traffic and buried several vehicles near the under construction 540 MW Kwar Hydroelectric Power Project in the hilly districts of Doda and Kishtwar. Huge quantities of mud, boulders and debris was deposited on the highway following the flash […]
JAMMU — A Class seven student was accidentally locked inside a government middle school after he fell asleep in his classroom on the last working day before the 15-day summer vacation in Ramban district last week, prompting authorities to conduct an inquiry and suspend the entire nine-member staff of the school, officials said on Monday. […]
JAMMU — A fresh batch of 5,794 pilgrims, including 1,211 women, departed from the Bhagwati Nagar base camp here early Monday for the annual Amarnath Yatra, officials said. Around 60,000 pilgrims have offered prayers at the holy cave shrine since the yatra began on July 3, they said. The officials said the fifth batch included […]
SRINAGAR — Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, the chief cleric of Kashmir on Monday welcomed efforts by civil society for the resumption of India-Pakistan dialogue, saying that in the new world order, war is not a solution to any problem. On the Amarnath Yatra, the Mirwaiz said that Kashmir has a long tradition of hospitality and the […]
COLOMBO — Deadly clashes broke out inside a prison in the outskirts of Sri Lanka’s capital, officials said on Monday. Unrest broke out at the prison in Negombo, about 35 kilometers (22 miles) north of the capital Colombo, on Sunday and continued on Monday, according to the local media and police. Local television station Hiru […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Monday said it has registered an FIR against five officials of the Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs (FCS&CA) Department and nine Fair Price Shop (FPS) dealers for their alleged involvement in the embezzlement and misappropriation of government food grains in Karnah area of Kupwara district. According […]
JAMMU — A search operation was launched early Monday after a suspected Pakistani drone was sighted over a forward village along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, officials said. The drone-like object, fitted with a blinking light, was observed over the forward villages of Meenka and Beripattan in the Sunderbani […]
SRINAGAR — The operation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district to trace two local terrorists of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba outfit, who were believed to be trapped in a dense orchard, entered the third day on Monday, officials said. The searches resumed at day break after nightlong suspension to track down the two terrorists who were […]
TEHRAN — Iran began a procession Monday through its capital, Tehran, for the funeral of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Khamenei’s flag-draped coffin, and those of his family killed Feb. 28 in an airstrike at the start of the war launched by Israel and the United States, sat on board a truck. Authorities […]