Bandipora: An 18-year-old motorcyclist was killed on Tuesday after he was hit by a passenger bus near in Chortung Morh in Ajas area of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district. An official told that the motorcyclist was critically injured after being hit by the passenger bus. He said that the injured motorcyclist was immediately shifted to CHC […]
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2 army porters injured after slipping from hill in Uri
Uri: Two army porters were injured after they fell from a hill in Uri area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Tuesday. Official sources told GNS the porters slipped from the hill when they were taking some load uphill at a forwarded post of the army in village Nawarunda Uri and got injured. The injured […]
50 villages plunge into darkness after transmission line suffers damage in Uri
Uri: At least 50 villages are reeling under darkness since early Tuesday morning after 33 KV transmission line suffered damage in Uri area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. According to reports, 33 KV transmission line, two poles (Steel tublor frame) fell down in Gingal area of Uri. The 33 KV transmission line which originates from […]
New Delhi based Track-2 Diplomatic Forum demands impartial probe into Srinagar ‘Encounter’
New Delhi: New Delhi based Track-2 Diplomatic Forum ‘Centre for Peace and Progress’ has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to order an impartial probe into the Srinagar Encounter that resulted into the killing of three youth on December 30, 2020. In a letter to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chairman ‘Centre for […]
Frost bites Kashmir, Drass freezes rock solid at minus 28.5
Srinagar: Morning fog affected pedestrian and vehicular movement in J&K on Tuesday as the gap between the maximum and the minimum temperatures narrowed down in Valley and Ladakh. Night’s lowest temperature dropped to bone-chilling minus 28.5 in Drass town of Ladakh. Maximum temperature was minus 10.6 in Drass yesterday. Drass is one of the coldest […]
Two arrested for allegedly raping minor in Jammu
Jammu: Two men were arrested here on Monday for allegedly raping a minor girl, police said. The Jammu residents-Balbir Kumar and Rahul Kumar were arrested on a complaint lodged by the victim’s mother with Arnia police station, they said. The girl’s mother alleged in her complaint on Sunday that the two men raped her daughter […]
TADA court frames charges against Yasin Malik, 9 others in Rubaiya Sayeed kidnapping case
Srinagar: More than 31 years after the abduction of Rubaiya Sayeed, daughter of the then Union Home Minister late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Special TADA Judge Sunit Gupta on Monday framed charges against 10 accused, including Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front chief Yasin Malik. Besides Malik, charges were framed against Ali Mohammad Mir, Mohammad Zaman Mir, Iqbal […]
Youth dies, another injured in Srinagar stabbing incident
Srinagar: In a mysterious stabbing incident, a youth died while another sustained injuries during a tussle at Khanyar area of Srinagar. According to News Agency KNT the deceased who had injury marks in his abdomen has been identified as Ziyan Chesti, a resident of Rainawari and another youth Faizan Bhat of Illahi Bagh Soura who […]
Driver killed, two injured in Rajouri accident
Rajouri: A driver was killed while two others were injured after the vehicle they were travelling in met with an accident in Rajouri district, officials said. Officials told that an accident took place near the main bus stand of Rajouri town when a bus plunged from a roadside gorge and fell into a deep river. […]
5.1 magnitude earthquake rocks J&K
Srinagar: An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale rocked Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda region on Monday evening and sparked panic among the people.. The epicenter of the quake was in a forest block of Doda district, also called Chenab Valley region, where panic stricken people fled their houses. The earthquake occurred at 7:32 pm. […]