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 […]
BEIRUT — An Israeli airstrike on a compound housing journalists in southeast Lebanon has killed three media staffers, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said Friday. The Beirut-based pan-Arab Al-Mayadeen TV said two of its staffers were among the journalists killed early Friday. Al-Manar TV of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group said its camera operator Wissam Qassim was […]
JAMMU — The BSF and police on Friday launched a search operation to monitor suspicious activities in border areas of Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district, officials said. The search operation comes in the backdrop of spate of terror attacks in the Kashmir valley. Officials said the joint search operation by the Border Security Force (BSF) […]
NEW DELHI — During the two ongoing Test matches between India and New Zealand at Pune’s Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) stadium and the third Pakistan-England Test at Rawalpindi, the domination of spin on the opening days has stood out, with the tweakers established new records, milestones and memories from “Pindi to Pune”. In the second […]