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 — Jammu and Kashmir Police has booked BJP’s Pulwama president Showkat Gayoor for allegedly making an extortion demand from a contractor through intimidation, officials said on Tuesday. The BJP, reacting to the development, suspended Gayoor with immediate effect from all party posts and responsibilities and initiated disciplinary proceedings against him. The FIR was registered […]
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 […]
UNITED NATIONS — Pakistan’s spokesperson has said that although Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has tweeted a message of sympathy for the floods ravaging his country, he does not expect the disaster to lead to better relations with India while it is “logical” in these circumstances for countries to “set aside other considerations and to […]
SRINAGAR — The Meteorological (MeT) department on Wednesday forecast mainly clear to partly cloudy weather in Jammu and Kashmir during the next 24 hours. The weather was mainly clear in the union territory on Tuesday. “Mainly clear to partly cloudy weather is likely in J&K during the next 24 hours”, an official of the MeT […]
NEW DELHI — Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad will address a rally in Jammu on September 4, his first after quitting the Congress. The rally is planned on the day Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is slated to address a ‘Mehngai par Halla Bol’ event in the national capital. With the timing […]
GANDERBAL — A 22-year-old youth, who was injured due to an electric shock in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Tuesday evening, succumbed to his injuries at SKIMS Soura An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that the youth namely Danish Nisar (22) son of Nisar Ah Rather of Gangarhama was injured due to […]
NEW DELHI — The family of a 55-year-old woman who suffered a severe head injury recently donated her vital organs at the AIIMS here on Tuesday, which helped save the lives of four people, the hospital said. The deceased, Krishna, had gone for morning walk on August 27. A local, who knew her, saw her […]
NEW DELHI — Expressing dissatisfaction over the Centre’s delay in responding to a plea challenging the Jammu and Kashmir delimitation exercise, the Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned as to why the government did not file the counter affidavit even after being granted six weeks’ time. A bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and A.S. Oka […]
JAIPUR — Two residents of Jammu and Kashmir were caught in a restricted area in Jaisalmer district and are being interrogated jointly, police said on Tuesday. Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Premshankar said on the information of the Border Security Force (BSF), a police team caught Mohammad Abbas (23) and Mumtaz Ahmed (25), residents of Poonch in […]
GANDERBAL — A youth was injured after due to an electric shock in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Tuesday. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that the youth namely Danish Nisar (22) son of Nisar Ah Rather of Gangarhama got injured due to electric shock, while unloading a truck at Bamloora. He […]
SRINAGAR — The Government of India on Tuesday appointed Dr. Shah Faesal as deputy secretary in the Union Ministry of Culture. The Department of Personnel and Training has ordered the posting of Shah Faesal (AGMUT-2010) as deputy secretary in the Ministry of Culture under the central staffing scheme for a period of four years from […]
SRINAGAR — Executive Chairman J&K Legal Services Authority, Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey today chaired a high level meeting to discuss ensuring that the undertrials/convicts are not denied the basic fundamental rights, while they are in custody. The meeting was attended by Additional Chief Secretary Home, R. K. Goyal; DG Prisons, H. K. Lohia; Principal Secretary […]
