SRINAGAR — A 37-year-old jail inmate died after ‘falling from a sub-jail building’ in North Kashmir’s Kupwara district this afternoon, officials said. Identifying the deceased as one Mohammad Yousuf Bhat son of Abdul Aziz Bhat, a resident of Prangroo Mawer Handwara, the officials said that the person was evacuated to SDH Kupwara where the doctors […]
SRINAGAR — Massive fire damaged a mosque and a residential house in Tarzoo area of Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district overnight, official sources said on Tuesday. Two firefighters were also injured while dousing the “sky touching” flames, the official sources told GNS. They said that the massive fire broke out at Izat Shah colony […]
SRINAGAR — Founder and chairman of Ittihadul Musilmeen, Mohammad Abbas Ansari passed away after a prolonged illness at his residence in Khankhai Subah Nawakadal in Srinagar. Family sources told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that Abbas Ansari was not keeping well since long and over the couple of days his health deteriorated. They said […]
SRINAGAR — Partial solar eclipse will be visible in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday as the weather will remain dry and the sky will be clear, said the Meteorological (MeT) office here. “Partial solar eclipse will start at 4.17 p.m. in Jammu and at 4.14 p.m. in Srinagar today. The eclipse will end after sunset. […]
NEW DELHI — Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan on Monday visited forward posts in the Rajouri sector of Jammu and Kashmir and asked the soldiers deployed in the region to maintain operational preparedness of the “highest order”. Gen Chauhan also celebrated Diwali with the troops. The field commanders in the Rajouri sector […]
JAMMU — The Border Security Force and the Pakistan Rangers exchanged sweets at the International Border in Jammu on the occasion of Diwali, officials said on Monday. “Today, on the occasion of Diwali, BSF and Pak Rangers exchanged sweets at various BOPs under Jammu Frontier in a very cordial atmosphere,” the BSF said. BSF Jammu […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir police on Monday claimed to have arrested a rape accused after multiple raids in Srinagar and said that the accused will be produced in court tomorrow. As per statement, a police spokesman said that Police station sadder received a complaint from a lady that her minor daughter has been raped […]
BARAMULLA — A teenage girl on Monday allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself to death in Kreeri area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that the girl, 14, hanged herself to death at his residence in Vizer locality of Kreeri today. He said that she was rushed […]
JAMMU — A commandant of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was arrested on the charge of sexually harassing a woman officer of the force in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district, officials said on Monday. A complaint was registered on Sunday in which an assistant commandant of a CRPF unit at Battal Ballian alleged that […]
KARGIL — Prime Minister Narender Modi on Monday said India as a growing nation has been able to deal effectively with internal and external enemies of the country and time is not far when “enemy free nation.” “India as a nation has launched a war against its internal and external enemies and time is not […]