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 […]
SRINAGAR — Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid Srinagar expressed strong disdain against the authorities for once again disallowing its incarcerated Chairman and Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir Dr Moulvi Muhammad Umar Farooq to address the faithful at the historic and central grand mosque after three years. Anjuman in a statement said that as soon as Mirwaiz Umar Farooq stepped out […]
SRINAGAR — Police on Friday evening claimed to have arrested three Over Ground Workers (OGW’s) of Lashkar-e-Taiba militant outfit at Bomai Chowk area of Sopore town in North Kashmir. According to police statement, “on 26 August 2022, during evening hours, a joint naka/MVCP was established by Sopore police, 22 RR, 179 BN CRPF at Bomai […]
JAMMU — Hours after former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad quit the Congress, eight senior party leaders including three former ministers resigned the party’s primary membership, with sources indicating they may form a new party soon. More leaders, perceived to be close to Azad, are contemplating to resign, the sources said. Former […]
SRINAGAR — Residents of Fresdub in Chrar-i-Sharif block of Central Kashmir district Budgam district are aghast over what they allege is illegal occupation of Waqf land by a group of people, who have illegally taken over the said property. A group of people from Fresdub told news agency Kashmir Dot Com that one of the […]
SRINAGAR — Renowned educationist and lecturer of Chemistry, Javaid Ahmad Rather, of Wagoora area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla has been selected for this year’s national teachers award. President of India, Droupadi Murmu according to Srinagar based news agency Kashmir Dot Com (KDC) will confer the award to Mr Rather on the occasion of Teachers’ Day […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah on Friday said Ghulam Nabi Azad must have resigned from the Congress as he must not be getting respect and love from the party and added that the country needs a stronger opposition. Abdullah’s son and Vice President of Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Omar Abdullah in a […]
SRINAGAR — Former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, who resigned from the Congress party on Friday, is all set to float a new political party in Jammu & Kashmir next month, sources said here. Sources told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer that Azad would launch the party in September. This would be the second major […]
SRINAGAR — In wake of senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad’s resignation from the party on Friday, a number of senior party leaders, including former legislators, of the party in Jammu and Kashmir also quit. These included G.M. Saroori, Haji Abdul Rashid, Muhammad Amin Bhat, Gulzar Ahmad Wani, and Choudhary Muhammad Akram. “The new president […]
Peerzada Zubair KUPWARA — Women’s Equality Day, celebrated every August 26, to commemorate the passage of women’s suffrage in the U.S. and reminds us of the hurdles overcome by the heroic women who faced violence and discrimination to propel the women’s movement forward. Indian Army conducted an event based on the theme “Gender equality today […]
SRINAGAR — Kashmir’s chief cleric and Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was disallowed on Friday to leave his residence in Srinagar to attend congregational prayers at the historic Jamia Masjid, a week after J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha suggested “he was a free man”. “I started for the Jamia Masjid around 12:40 p.m. All I […]
