SRINAGAR — Police on Thursday claimed to have averted a major tragedy by destroying an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) at Wanpora village on Newa-Srinagar road. Police in a statement said, “an IED (approx 5kg) was detected by joint team of 50 RR, 183 BN CRPF, and Pulwama Police along roadside in a container at Wanpora […]
SRINAGAR — Upper reaches of Kashmir Valley received snowfall while rains started in plains on Thursday. Amid overnight cloud cover, minimum temperature rose considerably across the J&K and Ladakh, with most places in Kashmir Valley recording above-sub-zero temperature. Almost 4 inches of snowfall were reported from parts of north Kashmir as authorities closed Bandipora-Gurez road. […]
JAMMU — Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday said his party would continue to press for the Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir after the winter months to provide a popular government to the people of the Union Territory. He alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is happy with its “proxy rule” […]
SRINAGAR — District administration Srinagar on Wednesday refuted rumours about detection of any omicron case in this summer capital. When contacted, Deputy Commissioner Srinagar Mohammad Aijaz Assad told GNS that the rumours doing rounds are absolutely false. “There is no omicron case in Srinagar”, he said, adding,” “Three cases have been sent for genome sequencing. […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — A civilian and an Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) were shot dead by suspected militants in two different attacks in Kashmir valley on Wednesday evening. The first attack was reported from Srinagar city where a civilian was shot dead by suspected militants outside his residence at Mirjanpora Nawakadal area of Srinagar. He has been […]
SRINAGAR — With Jammu Omicron cases having no travel history or contact with any positive case of the new variant, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Wednesday said this could be an indication of possible community spread of the new variant. “It is possible these cases could be an instance of community spread of Omicron,” said […]
SRINAGAR — Stoking a fresh controversy, BJP unit of J&K Wednesday said that the delimitation commission worked with “dedication and transparency” and that it was for the first time that Scheduled Tribe and Scheduled Caste categories have got their due rights. Addressing a press conference in Jammu party headquarters, BJP J&K President Ravinder Raina said […]
URI — A 20-year-old girl has lost her foot in a landmine blast along Line of Control in Hathlanga village in Uri on Wednesday afternoon, officials and reports said. Reports reaching GNS said that a girl identified as Masooma Bano, 20, daughter of Juma Chachi lost her left foot injury in a landmine blast. The […]
SRINAGAR — J&K Peoples Conference President Sajad Gani Lone has said that NC’s U-Turn to participate in the delimitaion commission meeting has legitimized the ‘grossly unfair delimitaion commission proposa’l. “Will somebody please enlighten them (PAGD). This report cannot be challenged in court. It is legally unchallengeable. Heavens sake. Stop lying through your teeth”, Sajad Lone […]
SRINAGAR — Anand Dutta one of the six convicted in the Kathua rape case of 2018 has been granted bail by Punjab & Haryana High Court, Bar and Bench reported. A Bench of Justices Tejinder Singh Dhindsa and Vinod S Bhardwaj suspended the remaining sentence of Dutta, and ordered that he be released on bail […]