SRINAGAR — Director Handicrafts and Handloom Kashmir, Mahmood Ahmad Shah held an extensive web meeting with Dr Suyash Chavan Consulate General of India (CGI), Germany. The online meeting dealt exclusively in reviewing the scope of developing end-to-end export linkages to provide quality handicraft products of Kashmir to the German Market in particular and rest of […]
PULWAMA — A policeman was crushed to death by a train in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Friday, police said. A police official said that a Head constable Mohammad Hussain Dar (48) was hit by a train while he was performing his duties near GRP (Panzgam), resulting in his on the spot death. They said […]
SRINAGAR — A trooper died of brain hemorrhage in Srinagar hospital today. Sources told news agency Kashmir News Trust that a CRPF Head Constable suffered a brain hemorrhage. He was taken to SMHS Hospital Srinagar where he expired. Sources identified the trooper as Vijay Narayan, a resident of Allahabad Uttar Pradesh. The deceased was affiliated […]
JAMMU — Two persons are feared dead in river Chenab in Ramban district, officials said on Friday. They said the truck, they were travelling in, is parked on Jammu-Srinagar and the duo was seen by someone drowning. The person subsequently raised the alarm and massive searches headed by SSP Ramban Mohita Sharma and SHO Ramban […]
SRINAGAR — The Kashmir Power Development Corporation Limited on Friday informed that a transmission tower of Samba-Amargarh line has got damaged due to landslides in Thanamandi area of Rajouri, which will result in the additional power curtailments in Kashmir valley for next two weeks. “Due to landslides at Thanamandi Rajouri, 1 tower of 400 KV […]
SRINAGAR — Authorities yet again disallowed Friday prayers at historic Jamia Masjid. Anjuman Auqaf said that keeping the historic Jama Masjid continuously closed seems deliberate being done intentionally as part of an agenda. Anjuman Auqaf also demanded the release of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq from house detention. In a statement, Anjuman Auqaf said that State Authorities […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir Police has released the photographs of three wanted militants in the Kashmir Valley. Police has released the photographs of three militants who are said to be residents of Kulgam, Pulwama and Srinagar. These photographs were pasted on walls in Summer capital Srinagar. As per Police Basit Ahmad Dar @Kamran […]
JAMMU — Army and police on Friday claimed to have recovered 31 kilograms of narcotics along the Line of Control in Poonch district. “Based on inputs of likely smuggling of Narcotics through the Line of Control in Poonch, Indian Army along with JKP launched relentless operations in the area,” Lt Col Devender Anand, Jammu-based PRO […]
SRINAGAR — Amid forecast for widespread moderate rain and snow on weekend, night temperature recorded an increase in J&K, except Gulmarg and Pahalgam, on Friday. A meteorological department official here told GNS that Srinagar, the summer capital of the J&K, recorded a low of 2.8°C against last night’s 2.2°C. Kashmir is presently under the grip […]
SRINAGAR — Weatherman on Thursday revised its earlier forecast by now predicting widespread moderate rain and snow during 22 to 23rd January in Jammu and Kashmir. “An Active Western Disturbance is Most likely to cause Widespread Moderate Rain/Snow in J&K during 22-23rd Jan,” an official of the meteorological department here told GNS, adding, that the […]