SRINAGAR — Congress MLA from Bandipora, Nizamuddin Bhat, alleged that a National Conference MLA’s brother and supporters attempted to assault him during an official meeting on Friday. Jalal Akbar Lone, brother of Sonawari MLA Hilal Akbar Lone, and his aides disrupted the meeting held to review development works and use of funds in Bandipora, resorted […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Jammu and Kashmir Police on Friday booked a terror associate under the Public Safety Act (PSA) and a notorious drug peddler under the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (PIT NDPS) Act in Awantipora area of Pulwama district. According to a police statement, the terror associate, identified as […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Bharti Airtel on Friday announced the expansion of its mobile network along the Amarnath Yatra routes, strengthening connectivity for pilgrims, security personnel, and local authorities during the annual pilgrimage. According to a company statement, Airtel has deployed new network sites at Chandanwari, Pissu Top, and Betaab Valley, establishing mobile coverage along the […]
LEH — Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena on Friday launched an employment-linked skill training programme for Ladakhi youth, under which 36 shortlisted candidates from all seven districts of the Union Territory will undergo industry-oriented residential training in New Delhi with assured placement assistance. The first batch, comprising 34 girls and two boys, was flagged off […]
TEHRAN — The body of Iran’s supreme leader, killed in US-Israeli strikes that triggered the Middle East war, arrived at Tehran’s Grand Mosalla on Friday ahead of his funeral, state media reported. Millions of people and a coterie of foreign dignitaries were expected to attend Saturday’s official ceremony for Ali Khamenei, with Tehran’s chief negotiator […]
QUETTA — A speeding, overcrowded passenger bus plunged from a highway into a rocky ravine in southwestern Pakistan early Friday, killing 40 people and injuring eight others in one of the deadliest road accidents in recent years, officials said. The bus went out of control and fell into the ravine in Dana Sar, a remote […]
DUBAI — A powerful general who leads Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard emerged from hiding as Tehran prepared Friday for the dayslong funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Photos published online by Iranian state media showed Gen. Ahmad Vahidi attending a meeting about the funeral of Khamenei, 86, then sitting alongside his casket […]
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 […]