SRINAGAR (KIMS) — After remaining closed for a day due to snow accumulation, the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway was reopened for vehicular movement on Wednesday. Officials said passenger vehicles have been allowed to move from Jammu towards Srinagar and vice versa. However, Mughal Road, SSG Road and Sinthan–Kishtwar Road continue to remain closed for traffic due […]
PUNE — Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and four other persons were killed after an aircraft carrying them crashed in Pune district on Wednesday morning, officials said. The incident occurred when the plane carrying Pawar (66) and others landed near Baramati, they said. According to Flight Radar, the flight took off from Mumbai at […]
SRINAGAR — Flight operations to and fro Srinagar International Airport resumed on Wednesday, a day after all flights were cancelled due to snowfall in Kashmir, officials said. “The first flight has landed at 9.25 am. We expect normal flight operations through the day if the weather conditions hold,” an official of the Airport Authority of […]
SRINAGAR — A man from Uttar Pradesh was found dead inside his hotel room near the Dal Lake in Srinagar late Tuesday might, officials said. An official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that the man was found unconscious inside his room around midnight, and was immediately shifted to SMHS hospital. He said that […]
KULGAM — A 32-year-old man died of suspected suffocation after sleeping in his car with the heater on while waiting outside District Hospital Kulgam, where his wife was admitted, officials said. An official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that the man, a resident of Kulgam, had parked his car near the hospital and […]
KARGIL, Anayat Ali (KIMS) — The Union Territory of Ladakh achieved a proud milestone at the recently concluded Khelo India Winter Games (Ice Hockey), with the Men’s Ice Hockey Team winning the Bronze Medal and the Women’s Ice Hockey Team securing the Silver Medal at the national level. The achievement holds special significance as both […]
SRINAGAR — Braving treacherous weather and waist-deep snow, a doctor posted in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district on Tuesday proved that a sense of duty can triumph over even nature’s harshest challenges as he reached his hospital atop an excavator to attend to patients. Dr. Basharat Pandit, a resident of south Kashmir’s Pulwama and currently […]
JAMMU — A pencil factory was gutted in a fire along the Jammu-Poonch national highway here on Tuesday, an official said. No casualties have been reported in the incident. The fire broke out at Talab Tillo around 4.05 pm, an official of the fire and emergency services said. He said a total of 10 fire […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday highlighted the benefits of pre-budget consultations and said his government would maintain the dialogue with various stakeholders to further strengthen governance and public welfare. Ahead of the budget session, scheduled to commence on February 2, Abdullah chaired an extensive consultation meeting here on Tuesday […]
JAMMU — As many as 60 persons, including 40 soldiers of a Rashtriya Rifles unit, were rescued by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) after they were stranded in a snowbound area in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district, a defence spokesman said on Tuesday. The BRO successfully carried out the high-altitude rescue and road restoration operation […]