KYIV — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he hoped the Democrat triumph in the US midterm elections would boost support for Kyiv and help end the war with Russia. Ukraine and its European allies had been worried about the US getting closer to Russia since US President Donald Trump returned to the White House […]
NEW DELHI — Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has accepted the resignation of Srinagar MP Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi, who on November 3 resigned from his Parliamentary seat and the National Conference following differences with the party leadership. “Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi, an elected member of Lok Sabha from the Srinagar Parliamentary constituency, has resigned […]
Cristiano Ronaldo announced his intention to retire from the Portugal national team on Thursday in a social media post, bringing to an end one of the most illustrious international careers in the history of football. The 41-year-old said he would ‘hand back the number 7 shirt’ after the November international break. Ronaldo captained the team […]
SRINAGAR — The Meteorological Department on Saturday forecast dry weather in Jammu and Kashmir for next 24 hours. The weather remained dry in the Union Territory yesterday. An official of the Meteorological Department said, dry weather is likely to continue in J&K during the next 24 hours. He said, Srinagar recorded 1.6 degrees Celsius while […]
KOLKATA — Former Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) chief Amarjit Singh Dulat on Friday said while the Modi government’s “muscular policy” is working and “militancy was down”, the “idea of India” in Kashmir was being lost and that there is need for a “healing touch.” Speaking at a discussion about his book ‘A Life in […]
SRINAGAR — Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid Srinagar while expressing serious concern over more than three and a half years detention of its president Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir Dr Moulvi Muhammad Umar Farooq, said that he was barred from performing 183rd consecutive Friday prayer, which is extremely condemnable. “Today, in his Friday sermon at the historic Central Jama Masjid […]
JAMMU — A government school teacher in Ramban district was suspended on Friday for criticising government policies on social media, officials said. Joginder Singh, a teacher at a school in Chanderkot, was running four Facebook pages as a socio-political activist to conceal his real identity, they said. He was criticising government policies and posting anti-government […]
ANANTNAG — A civilian was injured in a firing incident in Hassanpora area of Bijbehara town in Anantnag district of South Kashmir on Friday. Reports said, a civilian identified as Asif Ganai, son of Martyr Head Constable Ali Mohd Ganai was fired upon and injured by militants outside mosque at his native village, Hassanpora Tavela […]
GOOL — Immovable properties of three persons who were allegedly involved in the militant activity were attached by the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of Jammu and Kashmir Police on Friday. The accused were booked for allegedly hurling a grenade at the Police Post, Gool on August 2, 2022, officials said. The immovable properties include a […]
RAMBAN — Days after Chief Secretary warned employees against misuse of social media, a teacher in J&K’s Ramban district has been suspended for a Facebook post allegedly critical of the government. The suspension order to this effect has been issued by District Magistrate Ramban, Mussarat Islam. “Pending enquiry and for violations of directions passed by […]
JAMMU — Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik appeared via video-conferencing before a special court here on Friday and an eyewitness identified him in the 1989 kidnapping of Rubaiya Sayeed, the daughter of then Union home minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. The eyewitness corroborated that he had gone to Sopore in Baramulla district of […]
LUCKNOW — Twenty-three children from a government-run school in Srinagar, who are on an eight-day Bharat Darshan tour, visited the Bada Imambara and later went to the Lulu Mall in Lucknow. The tour organised by Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) Frontier Unit reached the Uttar Pradesh state capital from Chandigarh. The children were amazed to see […]
JAMMU — In a meeting chaired by the Chief Secretary to deliberate upon misinformation created regarding property tax in Jammu and Kashmir, it was clarified that all the poor, marginalized having small houses having built-up area up to 1000 square feet have been exempted by the government from paying any property tax to be levied […]
