JAISALMER — Two youths from Jammu and Kashmir were apprehended from near the India-Pakistan international border in Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer district, police said on Saturday. The two were collecting donations in the prohibited area without permission, they said. After questioning, the youths were handed over to the Joint Investigation Committee. They be interrogated by security and […]
JAMMU — In a major political development mayor and deputy mayor of Jammu Municipal Corporation on Saturday resigned from their posts. Sources told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that JMC mayor Chander Mohan Gupta and deputy mayor Advocate Purnima Sharma resigned today after facing opposition from own councillors. They said that there was infighting […]
SRINAGAR — Amid claims by students of BA LLB 10th semester that examination paper of ‘Child Law and Juvenile Justice” was out of syllabus, Kashmir University on Saturday said genuineness of the claims would be ascertained by an expert committee in a time-bound manner. “Some examinees of BA LLB 10th semester have claimed that their […]
SRINAGAR — A-32-year-old man died on Saturday when a tree he was cutting fell on him in forest area in central Kashmir’s Budgam district. An official told news agency Kashmir Dot Com that one person identified as Muhammad Rafiq Khokhar, son of Habibullah Khokhar, a resident of Kokerbagh Khag, was cutting a tree in the […]
JAMMU — Two mortar shells were found in the forward villages along the International Border (IB) in Jammu and Samba districts of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Saturday. A live mortar shell was noticed by villagers at Pragwal in Akhnoor sector on the outskirts of Jammu this morning, they said, adding the bomb disposal […]
RAMALLAH — Dozens of Palestinian protesters were injured during clashes with Israeli soldiers in several West Bank cities and villages. Among the injured were three shot by live ammunition and nine by rubber bullets, while the others inhaled teargas fired by Israeli soldiers, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement on Friday. In […]
NEW DELHI — The CBI on Saturday carried out searches at 59 locations across 21 states and a Union Territory in an internationally coordinated law-enforcement crackdown on online circulation of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), with officials here saying more than 50 suspects in the country are under the scanner. The raids, part of Operation […]
SRINAGAR — State Investigation Agency (SIA) is carrying out raids at multiple locations in central and north Kashmir on Saturday morning as part of its investigation into narco financing of terror activities in the Union territory, sources said. Sources told news agency Kashmir Dot Com that the sleuths of the investigating agency with the assistance […]
SRINAGAR — The Meteorological (MeT) department on Saturday forecast partly cloudy sky with light rain in Jammu and Kashmir during the next 24 hours. “Partly cloudy sky with possibility of light rain is likely in J&K during the next 24 hours”, an official of the MeT department said. Meanwhile, Srinagar recorded 16.6 degrees Celcius, Pahalgam […]
KABUL — Seven people were killed and 41 others wounded after a bomb explosion ripped through a mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Friday. Placed on a vehicle, the deadly bomb exploded in front of the main entrance of the Wazir Mohammad Akbar Khan Mosque in Kabul’s Police District 6 on Friday afternoon, […]