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 — Jammu district reported eight new covid-19 cases while there was no death due to the pathogen in the last 24 hours, officials said on Saturday. They said that the fresh cases take the overall tally to 454139—166394 in Jammu and 287745 in Kashmir. There was also no death due to the pathogen reported […]
BUDGAM — Jammu and Kashmir Police Saturday said that they have arrested a teenager for stabbing a man in central Kashmir’s Budgam district. In a statement, police said that yesterday at about 21: 30 hrs a scuffle broke out between Mehrosh Parvaiz son of Parvaiz Ahmad Rather resident of Hanjoora aged about 19/20 years and […]
SRINAGAR — Citing “unprecedented flow of tourists” and threat to ecologically fragile environs of the place, Chief Executive Officer of Gulmarg Development Authority has written a letter to Director School Education Kashmir, urging him to ask educational institutions in the Valley not to plan excursion/picnic to the famous resort on weekend. From last couple of […]
KULGAM — At a time when Kashmir is under the grip of heightened tensions in the wake of killing of a Kashmiri Pandit employee by militants at Tehsil office Chadoora in Central district of Budgam, Muslims and KP’s continued to share and further strengthen the age-old bond of brotherhood and communal harmony at Y K […]
SRINAGAR — Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) on Saturday decided to meet Lieutenant Governor Jammu and Kashmir, Manoj Sinha to raise demands of Kashmiri Pandits with regard to their safety and security in the Valley. The spokesman of conglomerate, Muhammad Yousuf Tarigami, said that a group of Kashmiri Pandits met the constituents of PAGD […]
SRINAGAR — Syed Areeba, founder of Roches an emerging clothing store in the Valley to showcase fashion with modern twist. Areeba decided to start her own store specializing in traditional Kashmiri clothing, bridal wear, Pakistani suits, handmade pashmina shawls and lot more things. Areeba, who hails from Srinagar, started Roches to introduce Kashmir’s finest weaves […]
SRINAGAR — Days after the killing of a minority community member in Budgam district by militants, a meeting between the members of People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration’s (PAGD) has started at the Gupkar residence of the body’s President. Sources told new agency Kashmir Dot Com that all the members of the PAGD reached at the […]
JAMMU — The State Investigation Agency (SIA) of Jammu and Kashmir has submitted its chargesheet in a court here in connection with a ‘terror’ financing case, in which three associates of ‘terror’ operatives were arrested from the Sidhra bridge area last year and cash amounting to Rs 43 lakh was recovered from their possession. The […]
SRINAGAR — National Investigation Agency (NIA) is carrying out raids at multiple locations in Kashmir Valley in connection with a case already registered at NIA office, officials said on Saturday. Official sources told KDC that NIA sleuths with the assistance of police and CRPF is carrying out raids in Baramulla, and south Kashmir’s Shopian. The […]
BUDGAM — A man was killed on Friday late evening after hit by a vehicle in Chadoora area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. However, family members of the deceased held protest and alleged that he was murdered. Family members said that, yesterday about 8. 30 pm he was at home when someone called him to […]
