KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday accused Russia of intensifying strikes across the country to put pressure on Kyiv at upcoming talks after an overnight barrage triggered power cuts as temperatures drop. The latest strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure came days before the trilateral US-brokered meeting in Abu Dhabi scheduled for Tuesday and […]
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 […]
SYDNEY — Former opener Usman Khawaja claimed on Saturday that the entire Australian team knew about the 2018 “Sandpapergate” scandal in Cape Town and said they also employed the tactic during the previous Test at Port Elizabeth. Captain Steve Smith, his deputy David Warner and Cameron Bancroft were sent home in disgrace and found by […]
SRINAGAR — The locals living in the vicinity of Bund area of Lal Chowk in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir have urged authorities to depute some police personal in the area to keep eye on acts of impudence and shamelessness. According to locals, the bund area of Lal Chowk from foot bridge […]
SRINAGAR — A court in Jammu on Wednesday issued a production warrant against Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Muhammad Yasin Malik, directing the Tihar jail authorities to produce him physically before it on the next date of hearing in Rubaiya Sayeed abduction case. Advocate Monika Kohli, CBI counsel in the case, said that […]
JAMMU — The State Investigation Agency of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday raided several locations linked to a head constable arrested on fraud charges to ascertain if he was also involved in militant financing, officials said. Mohammad Ramzan, who was arrested on Tuesday, has 16 bank accounts in his name with transactions running into crores. […]
SOPORE — At least eleven persons have been booked for keeping single use plastic (SUP) in Sopore town of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district, officials said here on Wednesday. An official told news agency Kashmir News Observer that 11 persons have been booked under section 290 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) for keeping banned SUP, while […]
POONCH — Body of man was found hanging from a tree at Dara Sangla village of Surankote area in this district on Wednesday. Official sources and locals told GNS that body of the man identified as Mohammad Shakeel son of Gulzar Ahmed Lohar of Baird Fazlabad was found at a distance of nearly 2 kilometers […]
BUDGAM — In a shocking incident, a teenager was arrested in Khag area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Wednesday for sodomising a minor boy, officials said here. An official told news agency Kashmir News Observer that the teenager had sodomised a 4-year-old boy in Khag. He said that soon after receiving information about the […]
NEW DELHI — Celebrated comedian-actor Raju Srivastava died on Wednesday after over 40 days of hospitalisation here, said his brother Dipoo Srivastava. He was 58. Raju Srivastava suffered a heart attack on August 10 while working out at a hotel here. He was rushed to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and underwent […]
SRINAGAR — The Meteorological (MeT) office said on Wednesday that partly cloudy sky with light rain at isolated places is likely during the next 24 hours in Jammu and Kashmir. The weather was mainly dry in the union territory. ‘Weather is likely to remain partly cloudy with light rain at isolated places in J&K during […]
UNITED NATIONS — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday once again raked up the Kashmir issue during his address to world leaders at the high-level UN General Assembly session here. “India and Pakistan, after having established their sovereignty and independence 75 years ago, they still haven’t established peace and solidarity between one another. This […]
SRINAGAR — A Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) jawan died after falling off a building in Pandrethan area of Srinagar, officials said here on Wednesday. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that constable Anuj Kumar of 151 Battalion, A/coy SSB fell from the building at Geology and Mining department in Pandrethan. He said […]
