SRINAGAR — Six CRPF personnel were injured after a vehicle they were travelling in met with an accident near the Sonamarg tunnel in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Friday, officials said. A CRPF vehicle skidded off the road near the Sonamarg tunnel on the Srinagar-Leh National Highway in the central Kashmir district, the officials […]
JAMMU — Amid tight security, the second batch of more than 3,800 pilgrims left the Jammu base camp on Friday for the Amarnath cave shrine in the south Kashmir Himalayas, officials said. The 57-day pilgrimage to the 3,880-metre-high Amarnath cave shrine started on Friday morning simultaneously via the traditional 48-km Nunwan-Pahalgam route in the Anantnag […]
SRINAGAR — The annual Amarnath Yatra began on Friday as the first batches of pilgrims left the twin base camps in Baltal and Nunwan to start their journey to the 3,880-metre-high cave shrine in the south Kashmir Himalayas that houses a naturally formed ice lingam, officials said. The yatra started early morning from the twin […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Friday said no pilgrim would be permitted to undertake the Amarnath Yatra to the holy cave shrine before the registered date and appealed to devotees to wait for their turn and travel only on the date assigned to them. In an advisory, the administration said that, as […]
NEW DELHI — India said on Thursday that its deputy foreign minister and a state governor would represent the country at the state funeral of Iran’s former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Governor of Bihar, Syed Ata Hasnain, and deputy foreign minister Pabitra Margherita will visit Iran on July 03, the Indian foreign ministry said […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Nalin Prabhat on Thursday visited the Nunwan Base Camp at Pahalgam to review the arrangements made for the smooth, safe, and hassle-free conduct of the ongoing Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra. During the visit, the DGP conducted a comprehensive inspection of the Base Camp and took […]
SRINAGAR — The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has directed the Army to pay rent to owners of land taken over by it in Sopore and rendered unusable due to security concerns. Upholding a trial court order, Justice Sanjay Dhar asked the Army to pay rent for the land measuring nearly 3 […]
SRINAGAR — The first batch of pilgrims for the annual Amarnath Yatra received a warm welcome as they reached the Kashmir valley on Thursday, officials said. The batch of 4,822 pilgrims was flagged off earlier in the day by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha from the Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas in Jammu. As the convoy entered […]
JAMMU — The Kishtwar district administration on Thursday issued a weather advisory of heavy rainfall, thunderstorms, flash floods and landslides till Sunday in the region, urging people, particularly those living near riverbanks, to remain cautious and avoid vulnerable areas. According to the advisory issued by the Office of the Kishtwar Deputy Commissioner, the area is […]
KINSHASA — The official death toll in an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo now exceeds more than 400, according to official figures released on Thursday. The highly infectious disease has claimed 438 lives among the 1,406 people confirmed infected – a fatality rate of just over 31 percent –since the outbreak was […]