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 — A policeman died of a cardiac arrest in Maisuma area of Srinagar on Wednesday morning, official sources said here. Official sources said that a 33-year-old cop identified as Altaf Hussain son of Nazir Ahmad of Tehsil Mohar of Reasi suffered a massive cardiac arrest and fell unconscious at Maisuma. They said that he […]
SRINAGAR — Weather in Jammu and Kashmir is expected to remain hot and dry on Wednesday, a day after Srinagar recorded 33.2 degree Celsius, the season’s highest maximum temperature, as per the Met department. “At 33.2 degrees Celsius, Srinagar recorded this season’s highest maximum temperature yesterday. “Weather is likely to remain hot and dry in […]
UNITED NATIONS — Journalists should not be jailed for what they write, tweet and say, a spokesperson for UN chief Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday in response to the arrest of Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair in India, asserting that it is important that people be allowed to express themselves freely without the threat of […]
JAIPUR — Two people have been detained for allegedly killing a tailor in Udaipur, a murder that has triggered communal tension in the district, police said on Tuesday. At 8 pm, curfew was declared till further orders in seven police station areas in the city as Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot appealed for calm. The accused […]
BANDIPORA — A motorcyclist has lost his life when he met with an accident in Rakhi Asham area of Sumbal Tehsil in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Tuesday, an official said here. The official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that the motorcyclist had lost control over it and died on the spot at […]
NEW DELHI — State-owned Jammu and Kashmir Bank (J&K Bank) on Tuesday said it will raise up to Rs 2,000 crore, through a mix of debt and equity, in the current fiscal year 2022-23. The board of directors of the bank, in its meeting held on June 28, approved the capital raise plan, J&K Bank […]
SRINAGAR — State Investigation Agency of J&K Police on Tuesday in a crackdown against misuse of SIM cards and their fraudulent sale has booked a SIM card vendor in Kupwara district of North Kashmir. In a statement, SIA said that in the face of ever increasing misuse of SIM cards by militants, their OGW associates, […]
JAMMU — A 60-year-old woman was killed and her four relatives seriously injured on Tuesday when their private car rammed into a parked truck in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. The accident took place at Rajbagh on Jammu-Pathankot highway when the driver lost control over the car and hit the truck stationed […]
NEW DELHI — Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani has resigned from the board of Reliance Jio handing over reigns to his elder son Akash Ambani, who will be Chairman of the Board of Directors. In a stock exchange filing, Reliance Jio Infocomm said the company’s board has approved the appointment of Akash M Ambani, non-executive […]
ISLAMABAD — India has banned the official Twitter accounts of several Pakistani diplomatic missions, journalists and some prominent personalities under the’s Information Technology Act, 2000, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad has claimed. “Deeply concerning that #India has blocked the flow of information to Indian Twitter by withholding access to the following official accounts,” […]
