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 — Peoples Conference chairman Sajad Gani Lone on Saturday demanded a free and fair probe in 1987 elections, a day after incarcerated chief of Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front Muhammad Yasin Malik claimed that he was tortured and kept in detention centre after being picked up from an election counting center then. Talking to […]
SRINAGAR — Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, P K Pole on Saturday said that “Har Ghar Tiranga” is totally a voluntary movement and there is no compulsion and insistence in it. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function here, P K Pole said that this movement is totally on voluntary basis and there won’t be […]
BANDIPORA — A scooty rider died after he was hit by a speedy truck at Shadipora area Sumbal in North kashmir’s Bandipora district, officials said here on Saturday. An official said that speedy truck hit a scooty, resulting in critically injuries to the rider. He said that the injured was brought to CHC Sumbal for […]
SRINAGAR — In a first, Union Minister Simriti Iran will flag off Tiranga rally of at least 300 bikers from famous clock tower (Ghanta Ghar) Srinagar on July 25 that will culuminate on July 26 at Kargil War Memorial to mark the Vijay Diwas. Reliable sources in the BJP said Irani will flag off the […]
SRINAGAR — Many roads, lanes and by-lanes got inundated in muddy water after heavy rainfall lashed several parts of Jammu and Kashmir including Srinagar on Saturday morning. Reports said that rains lashed many parts of the J&K including Srinagar. They said that due to the heavy rainfall many road, lanes and by-lanes got inundated, thereby […]
NEW DELHI — Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik went on a hunger strike in Tihar jail on Friday, alleging that his case is not being investigated properly. Malik, sentenced by a special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Delhi this year, is serving two life sentences and varying jail terms, all running concurrently, under the […]
SRINAGAR — The MeT department on Saturday forecast light to moderate rain with thundershowers in Jammu and Kashmir during the next 24 hours. An official of the MeT department said: “Light to moderate rain with thundershowers is likely during the next 24 hours. “Amarnath Yatris are advised to remain cautious of flash flood and landslide […]
JAMMU — Three minors among four people lost their lives, while 15 others were injured in a road accident that took place near bus stand Samba on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday. An official said that an auto and a truck had a head-on collision near Samba bus stand, resulting in injuries to […]
JAMMU — Border Security Force troops late last night observed a suspicious blinking light coming from Pakistan side and fired upon it in Kanachak area of Akhnoor sector of Jammu district. In a statement, PRO BSF Jammu said that search operation in the area was going on. “On Friday at about 2140 hrs BSF troops […]
ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani female mountaineer and another from Iran scripted history on Friday by becoming the first women from their countries to scale the summit of the mighty and treacherous K2, the second-highest mountain peak in the world, a mountaineering official said on Friday. At 7.42 am local time, Samina Baig, 31, completed the […]
