SRINAGAR — Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday claimed that he was put under house arrest and prevented from offering congregational prayers at the Jama Masjid. This is the second consecutive Friday that the Mirwaiz was allegedly barred from offering the prayers at the Jama Masjid in the city’s Nowhatta locality. There was […]
SRINAGAR — A day after plain areas in Kashmir received the season’s first snowfall, the minimum temperatures dropped across the valley on Friday, with the weather department predicting a cold wave at many places over the next four days, officials said. The night temperatures decreased across the valley, after the snowfall in the higher reaches […]
NEW DELHI — India wants to have good relations with Pakistan that are free of terror but if it does not show it is changing its past behaviour, then there will be implications on bilateral ties, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said in the Lok Sabha on Friday. The minister also said that trade relations […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Bandipora police along with forest officials in a joint operation against illegal timber smuggling, today during intervening night seized a huge quantity of illicit forest timber in the Watapora area of Bandipora. “Acting on a specific information about a consignment of illegally smuggled forest timber in Watapora, a police party of PS […]
BRISBANE — Australian captain Pat Cummins on Friday announced that pacer Josh Hazlewood will replace Scott Boland in his playing XI for the third Test against India after having recovered from a side strain. The injury had forced Hazlewood to sit out of the Pink Ball Test in Adelaide last week. Cummins exuded confidence that […]
JAMMU (KIMS) — Under the overall supervision of SSP Kathua, the J&K Police in Kathua district apprehended two hardcore drug peddlers. These individuals, habitual offenders, were involved in the possession and transportation of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances in multiple NDPS cases registered at PS Kathua and PS Rajbagh. In the first case, a police […]
ISLAMABAD — Former Australian seamer Jason Gillespie who was appointed as Pakistan’s Test team head coach in April this year, stepped down from his role on Thursday. Aqib Javed, Pakistan men’s white-ball head coach, will take over as head coach of the Test team for the upcoming series in South Africa. In Gillespie’s last assignment […]
SRINAGAR — Violence in Sambhal was not a Hindu-Muslim issue but a “failure” of the state, Lok Sabha Member Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi said on Thursday. Mehdi said he came to the conclusion after his visit to Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday and his interactions with the families of those killed in the Police […]
NEW DELHI — A Delhi court is likely to decide on December 19 whether to transfer the terror-funding case against Jammu and Kashmir MP Engineer Rashid to a special court designated to try lawmakers. The hearing in the case, which was scheduled to be taken up on Thursday, was adjourned because the judge hearing the […]
JAMMU — With rail connectivity from Kanyakumari to Kashmir likely to complete next month, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said the link provides an opportunity to give a big boost to the floriculture sector in Jammu and Kashmir. Chairing a meeting of the department of floriculture, parks and gardens at the Civil Secretariat here […]