JAMMU — Minister of State for Railways Ravneet Singh on Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi will likely inaugurate Vande Bharat train connecting Kashmir to New Delhi on the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL) in January. According to officials, the Vande Bharat Express train will directly connect the national capital to the valley starting January 2025. […]
SRINAGAR — Congress leader Ghulam Ahmad Mir on Tuesday said there is no rift between his party and the ruling National Conference (NC) in Jammu and Kashmir. “The National Conference will not become Congress and vice versa. However, there are ideological similarities between the two parties for the past several decades. There might be difference […]
GENEVA — More than 200 children have been killed and 1,100 injured in Lebanon in the past two months, the U.N. children’s agency (UNICEF) said on Tuesday. The more than year-old conflict in Lebanon spiralled into all-out war in late September when Israel launched a major offensive against Iran-backed Hezbollah. “Despite more than 200 children […]
SHOPIAN — A Kisan Mela is being organised at Old Fruit Mandi Shopian on Thursday, November 21 from 10:30 AM onwards by the Department of Agriculture and allied departments. The Deputy Commissioner (DC) Shopian, Mohammad Shahid Saleem Dar has invited the public in general and students in particular to participate in the day-long event. Post […]
GHAZIPUR — Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Tuesday said that discussions on restoring Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir are “irrelevant” as the Supreme Court upheld its abrogation as constitutional. Speaking about the post-Article 370 scenario, Sinha said, “After the abrogation, assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir were conducted peacefully, observed by both national and […]
ISLAMABAD — Former prime minister Imran Khan on Tuesday told party leaders and ticket holders to “disassociate themselves from the party” if they could not participate in the PTI’s announced power show for November 24. On Nov 13, Imran issued a “final call” for nationwide protests on Nov 24 (Sunday), denouncing what he described as […]
MOSCOW — Russia’s military said Tuesday that Ukraine fired US-supplied long-range missiles at a military facility in the Bryansk border region, in what would be the first attack since Washington authorised the use of its weapons. “At 03:25 am (0025 GMT), the enemy struck a site in the Bryansk region with six ballistic missiles. According […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — While continuing its war against drug dealings, the Jammu and Kashmir Police have arrested six drug peddlers in Srinagar, Kulgam and Kupwara district of Kashmir division and recovered contraband substances from their possession. A police party of Police Station Shaheed Gunj at a checkpoint established at Habakadal Chowk, intercepted a suspicious person. […]
NEW DELHI — A Delhi court is likely to pronounce on Wednesday its order on Jammu and Kashmir Lok Sabha member Engineer Rashid’s regular bail application in a terror-funding case. Additional Sessions Judge Chander Jit Singh, who was scheduled to pass order on Tuesday, deferred the matter till November 20. The judge is also scheduled […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — In a relentless effort to curb the menace of drug peddling, the Jammu and Kashmir Police attached an immovable property worth one crore of a notorious drug peddler on Tuesday in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district. The The Jammu and Kashmir Police attached a double-storey residential house with 15 marlas of land underneath […]