SRINAGAR — With overnight cloud cover amid forecast for light rain and snowfall till January 19, night temperature further increased in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday. A meteorological department official told GNS that Srinagar recorded a low of 1.0°C against last night’s minus 1.2°C in the summer capital of the J&K. Kashmir is presently under […]
SRINAGAR — Journalist Sajad Gul has been booked under Public Safety Act (PSA) and was subsequently shifted to Kot Bhalwal jail in Jammu, police said. Inspector-General of Police Kashmir zone, Vijay Kumar, on Sunday confirmed to The Kashmir Walla that Gul has been booked under PSA. Kumar on Sunday said, “He (Gul) has been booked under PSA […]
SRINAGAR — Police in Ramban launched a wide scale search operation to locate a Lucknow family believed to have gone ‘missing’ along Srinagar-Jammu highway at Ramsu, since Friday morning. SSP Ramban Mohita Sharma told GNS that the search operation was launched after a family from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh informed through social media that their […]
SRINAGAR — A civilian and a policeman were injured after the unidentified persons hurled grenade in Saraf Kadal area of Srinagar, official sources said on Sunday. They said that unknown militants lobbed a grenade towards joint team of police and CRPF at Saraf Kadal, resulting in injuries to two persons. The injured have been identified […]
NEW DELHI — The Editors Guild of India Sunday condemned the manner in which the office and the management of Kashmir Press Club (KPC) were “forcibly taken over” by a group of journalists with the help of armed policemen. A few journalists accompanied by policemen reached the KPC Saturday and claimed to be the “new […]
SRINAGAR — At least three persons from Poonch were killed even as another person critically injured after a vehicle carrying them met with a fatal accident in Chamba in Himachal Pradesh this afternoon. Identifying the deceased as Bashir Ahmed son of Samad Sheikh; Bashir Ahmed son of Ghulam Mohd and Mohd Iqbal son of Ghulam […]
SRINAGAR — Amid the surge in COVID-19 cases, the Jammu and Kashmir administration on Saturday re-imposed weekend lockdown and said that night curfew shall continue to remain in force in all districts from 9 pm-6 am with complete restrictions on non-essential movement in the Union Territory. “Night curfew shall continue to remain in force from […]
SRINAGAR — A massive fire has broken out inside ‘Sherwani Hall’ in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Reports said that the fire broke out around 2:15 PM this afternoon inside the structure –used as banquet hall for political and social functions. A Fire and Emergency Department official confirming it told GNS that men and machinery were […]
JAMMU — Two brothers were killed and a person injured when an earthmover skidded off a road and plunged into a 100-feet-deep gorge in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Sunday. The incident occurred at Shahlala around 11.30 pm Saturday when the brothers along with an acquaintance were on their way to […]
SRINAGAR — As J&K braces up for light rains and snowfall till January 19, night mercury recorded an increase even as it stayed below freezing point with Srinagar recording a low of minus 1.2 °C on Sunday. A meteorological department official told GNS that the minimum temperature in the summer capital of the J&K was […]