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 — In order to give undue benefits to some candidates and mint money, some officials at SKIMS Soura are pushing higher ups to publish selection lists which are already under scanner. Top SKIMS officials pleading anonymity said that some officials are trying to take undue benefits of the autonomous status of SKIMS and try […]
SRINAGAR — Special Investigating Team (SIT) constituted by the Jammu and Kashmir government to probe all aspects of the killing of Kashmiri Pandit employee Rahul Bhat, will be headed by Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Central Kashmir range, Sujit Kumar Singh, Officials said. He said that the SIT has been constituted and will be headed by […]
SRINAGAR — Member’s of People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) are scheduled to meet Lieutenant Governor, J&K, Manoj Sinha on Sunday at Raj-Bhawan in Srinagar. Official Sources told news agency Kashmir Dot Com that all the constituent members of PAGD would meet LG Sinha on Sunday at 11:30 am to discuss the recent killings in […]
SHEIKHPORA (BUDGAM) — Fear and anger were writ large on the faces of Kashmiri Pandit employees and their family members as they continued their protest on Saturday at the Sheikhpora transit camp in Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam district against the killing of Rahul Bhat and demanding their relocation to safer places outside Kashmir Valley. A […]
JAMMU — Reiterating his stand that the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019 was “unconstitutional and unlawful”, National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah on Saturday said his party is not ready to accept defeat and will continue its peaceful struggle for the rights of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. The former chief minister […]
SRINAGAR — To make Jammu and Kashmir power surplus in the next four years, Power Development Department is working earnestly towards doubling electricity generation capacity in the Union Territory in three years. The J&K government has initiated a large scale capacity augmentation programme to address the current power deficit in the UT. Earlier, Jammu and […]
SRINAGAR — National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday arrested two alleged over ground workers in a “TRF conspiracy case” registered suo-moto by the agency in November last year. According to a statement, NIA conducted searches at four locations in, Kupwara, Pulwama and Shopian and arrested two accused in the case. “The case relates to activities […]
JAMMU — The Army on Saturday said over 100 civilians trapped in a remote village due to the washing away of a footbridge were rescued while work is in progress to construct a new bridge to enable regular movement across the river. The wooden bridge over a river at Chisoti village in Machail area was […]
SRINAGAR — The government on Saturday ordered transfer of two JKAS officers and assigned addition charge of a post to another officer in the interest of administration with immediate effect. According to a government order, Mohammad Akbar Wani (JKAS), Managing Director, J&K Cable Car Corporation, has been transferred and posted as Secretary in the Agriculture […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference Party President and Member of Parliament Srinagar Dr. Farooq Abdullah on Saturday said that spike in killings give a lie to the normalcy claims of the government vis-a-vis Kashmir. Dr. Farooq said this while interacting with a delegation of Kashmiri Pandits led by the party Minority Wing Vice President Amit Koul. […]
