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 […]
JAMMU — A 26-year-old youth was killed and another injured when a vehicle they were travelling in skidded of the road and fell into a gorge near Mehari Kalakote in Rajouri district on Wednesday. Official sources told GNS that the vehicle Alto car rolled down into the gorge after driver lost control over it. One […]
BUDGAM — A woman was killed while as her nephew sustained injuries after unknown gunmen fired upon them at Hushroo village in Chadoora area of Budgam district in Central Kashmir. Reports said, a woman identified as Amreena Bhat, daughter of Khazir Mohd Bhat from Hushroo Chadoora and her 10-year-old nephew was fired upon by unknown […]
SRINAGAR — People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) on Wednesday said that life imprisonment given to JKLF chief Yaseen Malik was “unfortunate and a setback to the efforts for peace”. “We are afraid that this will further compound the uncertainties in the region and will only fuel more alienation and separatist feelings,” spokesman of the […]
SRINAGAR — After being convicted in a terror funding case on May 19, a Special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on Wednesday pronounced two life imprisonment punishment to Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief and Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik. Malik was brought to Patiala House Court in New Delhi amid tight security in […]
NEW DELHI — Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik, who has been convicted in a militant funding case, told an NIA court on Wednesday that he will accept hanging if the intelligence agencies prove any militant-related activities involving him. During the course of the hearing before Special NIA Judge Praveen Singh, Malik said: “I will not […]
SRINAGAR — Parts of Srinagar observed a spontaneous shutdown on Wednesday ahead of a court’s verdict on the quantum of sentence for separatist Yasin Malik, who has been convicted in a terror funding case, officials said. Most of the shops and business establishments in Maisuma and adjoining areas, including some shops in Lal Chowk, were […]
SRINAGAR — A “faith healer” has been arrested along with two other persons by police in Shopian following the death of a woman allegedly after she was beaten up last night in the south Kashmir district, officials said on Wednesday. A police official told GNS that the woman, Souby Jan wife of Muzzafar Ahmad Sheikh […]
ANANTNAG — At least 250 sheep were killed by lightning in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district, official sources said on Thursday. “The incident took place in a pasture in Hoksar area of Kokernag tehsil in Anantnag district during the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday,” they said. Sheep from different low lying areas of the […]
SRINAGAR — Three Pakistani militants of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) outfit and a Jammu and Kashmir Police Cop were killed in an encounter that broke out between government forces and militants at Najibhat crossing in Kreeri area of Baramulla district in North Kashmir on Wednesday. Reports said a joint team of government forces including Indian Army, J&K […]
SRINAGAR — An encounter breaks out between government forces and militants at Najibhat crossing in Kreeri area of Baramulla district in North Kashmir on Wednesday. Reports said a joint team of government forces including Indian Army, J&K Police and CRPF had launched Cordon-and-Search-Operation (CASO) at Kreeri Baramulla following the inputs about presence of militants in […]
