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 body of labourer, who had drowned in river Jhelum while extracting sand, was retrieved on Saturday after two days in Rajbagh area of Srinagar. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that the labourer identified as Jaffar Wani (22) of Banihal drowned into river Jhelum while extracting sand in Sonwar […]
NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court Friday agreed to hear a plea that alleged that relatives of former judges and staff were favoured in the appointments in judicial institutions and courts in Jammu and Kashmir. A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Hima Kohli issued notice and sought a response from the Jammu and Kashmir […]
SRINAGAR — Taking cognizance of a video that went viral on social media regarding children of Oasis School of Education wherein school children were having lunch in shallow area below the floor of the school buses, the District Magistrate Srinagar, Mohammad Aijaz Asad constituted a team to investigate the matter. The team is headed by […]
SRINAGAR — Police on Friday claimed to have arrested a Hybrid militant of Lashkar-i-Toiba outfit in North Kashmir’s Sopore. In a handout, the police said that today at about 21:15 hours, a joint naka was established by PC Sopore along with 22 RR, 179/BN CRPF at Shangergund crossing in the jurisdiction of police station Sopore. […]
SRINAGAR — A 33-year-old female dies in Tangmarg hospital after family alleges negligence on the part of doctors in sub district hospital at Wadvun Tangmarg on Friday. Talking with Media, family members of the deceased and locals of the area said, that the doctors are playing hide and seek as they always show irresponsive behaviour […]
SHARJAH — Pakistan set up a second showdown against arch-rivals India in as many weeks with a record 155-run win over Hong Kong in a must-win Asia Cup match here on Friday. Mohammad Rizwan had to work hard for his 78 off 57 balls as Pakistan got a much-needed final flourish to post 193 for […]
SRINAGAR — A labourer from Banihal died during a scuffle between labourers in Murad Pora area of Shopian district on Friday evening. An official told that the labourers, who were putting up at a rented accommodation in Shopian, had a scuffle today evening. He said that in the incident one labourer namely Nasir Ahmad Naik […]
JAMMU — A couple from Punjab were arrested and seven kg of heroin seized from their possession in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district on Friday, a senior police officer said. Additional Director General of Police, Jammu, Mukesh Singh said Lovepreet Singh and his wife Mandeep Kaur were travelling in a private car when they were […]
SRINAGAR — Crimes against children in Jammu and Kashmir have reported a jump of 39.4 percent in 2021, NCRB data said. The report states that J&K has reported 473 crime cases in 2018 followed by 470 in 2019, 606 in 2020 and then 845 in 2021. As per data the most prominent crimes against children […]
SRINAGAR — Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid Srinagar Friday said that once again, its head and Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir, Dr Moulvi Muhammad Umar Farooq, who continues to be under house detention for the last more than three years since August 2019, was not allowed to leave his house to offer Friday prayers and hold majlis e waz at […]
