BENGALURU — Oil prices rose 2% on Tuesday to their highest in four weeks, as the U.S. reimposed its naval blockade of Iran while the two countries stepped up attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, heightening uncertainty about energy flows. Brent crude futures climbed $1.68, or 2%, to $84.98 per barrel by 0051 GMT, while […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Anantnag district unit on Friday suspended the primary membership of nine party office bearers and removed them from all organisational posts with immediate effect for allegedly organising and participating in an unauthorised Tiranga rally held at Khanabal in Anantnag on August 5. According to an office order […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir government on Friday said that the PGTI golf tournament, J&K Open, that concluded on Friday, will be an annual event from here on and the effort is to make the union territory the golfing capital of the country. Addressing the concluding ceremony of the Professional Golf Tour of India […]
SRINAGAR — The Meteorological (MeT) department on Saturday forecast partly cloudy sky with light rain in Jammu and Kashmir during the next 24 hours. “Partly cloudy sky with possibility of light rain is likely in J&K during the next 24 hours”, an official of the MeT department said. Meanwhile, Srinagar recorded 16.6 degrees Celcius, Pahalgam […]
KABUL — Seven people were killed and 41 others wounded after a bomb explosion ripped through a mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Friday. Placed on a vehicle, the deadly bomb exploded in front of the main entrance of the Wazir Mohammad Akbar Khan Mosque in Kabul’s Police District 6 on Friday afternoon, […]
NEW DELHI — Former Congress leader and senior lawyer Kapil Sibal on Friday made veiled attack at the Centre, alleging people have been living in the fear of investigating agencies, the State and the police. Talking about the “use of religion as a weapon”, the Rajya Sabha MP said that even though it was happening […]
ISLAMABAD — The England cricket team beat Pakistan by 63 runs on Friday night in the third Twenty20 International cricket match of the ongoing series in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi. England took a 2-1 lead in the seven-match series being played between the two sides. Pakistan’s captain Babad Azam won the toss and […]
UNITED NATIONS — Pakistan is looking for peace with all its neighbours, including India, but sustainable peace and stability in South Asia remain contingent on a just and lasting solution to the Kashmir dispute, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said here on Friday. In his address to the high-level UN General Assembly session, Shehbaz claimed that […]
NAGPUR — Skipper Rohit Sharma blazed away to an unbeaten 46 as India registered a series-levelling six-wicket win over Australia in the second T20I here on Friday. Chasing 91, Rohit scored 46 off 20 balls which included four boundaries and as many sixes to take India over the line with four balls to spare in […]
SRINAGAR — Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid Srinagar condemned the continuous restrictions on its head and Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir Muhammad Umar Farooq as according to the statement he was not allowed to leave his residence for delivering the Friday sermon to the faithful at the historic central Jama Masjid Srinagar. Anjuman in a statement said that like the […]
UDHAMPUR — At least four persons including three sisters died after drowning in a Nallah at Chetredi village of Tehsil Ramnagar in Udhampur district on Friday, an official said. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that at about 1430 hrs, an information was received that four people including three sisters who had […]
SRINAGAR — A motorcyclist was killed after getting hit by a speeding passenger cab in Bijbehara of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district, official sources said. They told GNS that a motorcycle bearing registration number PB35U 8190 was hit by a van bearing registration number DL5CF 2629 near Samthan Bijbehara, resulting in critical injuries Aaqib Ahmad Dar […]
SRINAGAR — The villages near Line of Control (LoC) in the northern region of Kashmir are now a new habitat for trekkers and tourists coming from different parts of the country. Not only from Kashmir valley but people from different states are exploring the tourist spots and enhancing the government’s initiatives of border tourism in […]
