NEW DELHI — Air India Express will start non-stop flights to Jammu and Sri Vijaya Puram (Port Blair) from December 1. “Jammu will be connected with direct flights to Delhi and Srinagar. On the same day (December 1), Air India Express will start direct flights from Sri Vijaya Puram (Port Blair) to Bengaluru and Kolkata,” […]
NEW DELHI — The Congress on Friday slammed the NDA government at the Centre over the militant attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Gulmarg, saying its policies had completely failed to establish security and demanded that it should immediately take accountability as well as ensure the safety of Army personnel and civilians. Two soldiers and two […]
SRINAGAR — Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday said the separatist amalgam is ready to engage with the BJP-led Centre for the resolution of the “Kashmir issue”. “When the APHC (All Parties Hurriyat Conference) was formed by the leadership in 1993, the situation was entirely different with militancy at its peak (in Jammu […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha paid floral tributes on Friday to the soldiers and porters who were killed in a militant attack in Gulmarg a day before. Sinha visited the Army’s Srinagar-based 15 Corps unit, also known as Chinar Corps, to pay homage to the slain soldiers and porters. “Paid homage […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Friday said attacks like the one in Gulmarg would continue to occur until India and Pakistan found a way to be friends and that would end Jammu and Kashmir’s troubles. Two soldiers and two Army porters were killed on Thursday after militants ambushed a force vehicle near […]
SRINAGAR — Authorities on Friday temporarily shut the Gondola ropeway service at the resort town of Gulmarg in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district as a precautionary measure following the killings of four people, including two soldiers, in a militant attack, officials said. Two soldiers and two Army porters were killed in the attack on Thursday […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — A youth was found dead in the fields of the Bugroo village in Khansahib area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. Reports said that the police received information that an unidentified body was lying in the fields of Bugroo village in Khansahib Budgam. Upon receiving this information, a team from Police Station Khansahib […]
NEW DELHI — Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi on Friday condoled the loss of lives in the militant attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Gulmarg, and said no amount of condemnation is enough for such terror acts. Two soldiers and two Army porters were killed on Thursday when militants attacked a vehicle of the force. In a […]
SRINAGAR — People’s Conference chief Sajad Lone on Friday said the delay in granting statehood to Jammu and Kashmir was a “sin” against the people of the Union Territory. Lone, an MLA from Handwara in north Kashmir, also called for the inclusion of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in all security-related meetings. “Irrespective of the political […]
NEW DELHI — Senior-most Supreme Court judge Sanjiv Khanna, who is set to take oath as the 51st Chief Justice of India, has been part of several landmark judgements including those related to electoral bonds, and abrogation of Article 370. Justice Khanna, who hails from an illustrious Delhi-based family and is the nephew of late […]