NEW YORK — The US grounded all flights for several hours Friday, sparking travel chaos across the vast country, after what government officials said was a major communications outage caused by decades old technology. The nationwide stop left hundreds of thousands of passengers in limbo, with some pulled off planes moments before departure by airline […]
JAMMU — In a major outreach to disgruntled party lawmakers, National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah has accepted a proposal to constitute informal advisory groups of MLAs for each minister in the Omar Abdullah-led government in Jammu and Kashmir, party sources said. The NC chief wrote to all MLAs days after a meeting was held […]
NEW DELHI — India batter Vaibhav Sooryavanshi became the youngest captain in men’s Twenty20 history at 15 years and 232 days after leading Bihar in India’s domestic T20 competition, the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, on Saturday. The teenager surpassed Croatia’s Zach Vukusic, who previously held the record after captaining his national side at 17 years […]
JAMMU — Secretary, Tourism, Avny Lavasa, on Friday visited Kud, Patnitop and Sanasar areas falling under the jurisdiction of Patnitop Development Authority (PDA) to review ongoing tourism infrastructure projects and assess the functioning of the Authority. During the tour, Lavasa reviewed key projects, including the Tulip Garden at Sanasar, golf course, beautification of Sanasar Lake, […]
JAMMU — The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Crime Branch Jammu has filed a chargesheet against a man and his wife in an alleged ₹3.55 crore property fraud case involving a residential plot and house in Sainik Colony, officials said on Friday. The accused have been identified as Peary Lal Koul and his wife Nirmala […]
SRINAGAR — Police in Bandipora and Sopore on Friday conducted two joint inter-district area domination exercises along the Wullar axis to strengthen security and enhance coordination in vulnerable areas adjoining the water body. According to police, the exercises were conducted at the Haritar-Kanyari axis and Zurimanz area as part of measures to strengthen area domination […]
SRINAGAR — Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Friday welcomed the inscription of Kalhana’s 12th-century manuscript Rajatarangini, along with the Mahabharata and Arthashastra, in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Asia-Pacific Regional Register. In separate posts on X, the two leaders described the recognition as a proud moment for Jammu and Kashmir […]
JAMMU — The Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has registered an FIR against a then Naib Tehsildar, a Patwari and two private persons for their alleged involvement in facilitating the wrongful occupation of State land at Gurha Brahmana village in Jammu. According to the ACB, the case was registered following Verification No. 02/2024, initiated […]
SRINAGAR — Kashmir’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has remained under house arrest for nearly a week and was prevented from attending Friday prayers at the historic Jamia Masjid in Srinagar on Friday, his office said. In a post on X, the Mirwaiz office said police personnel were deployed outside his residence in Nigeen and […]
SRINAGAR — Police in Bandipora have arrested two more persons in connection with an alleged prison-linked module of a banned organisation, which is under investigation for allegedly targeting women to propagate separatist ideology and propaganda, officials said on Friday. The module was earlier busted by Bandipora Police, and investigators are probing its alleged links, network […]
JAMMU — The Jammu and Kashmir government has geo-tagged around 30,000 chinar trees and created a digital database to strengthen their conservation and monitoring, officials said. Top officials said this at a high-level meeting, chaired by Minister for Forests, Ecology and Environment, Altaf Ahmad Wani, held to review the functioning of the Jammu and Kashmir […]
NEW DELHI — Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has accepted the resignation of Srinagar MP Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi, who on November 3 resigned from his Parliamentary seat and the National Conference following differences with the party leadership. “Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi, an elected member of Lok Sabha from the Srinagar Parliamentary constituency, has resigned […]
SRINAGAR — A group of dissident National Conference (NC) MLAs on Friday met Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and party president Farooq Abdullah here to air their grievances following the recent expansion in the council of ministers. As many as 15 MLAs of the party reached the Gupkar residence of the Abdullahs here this morning for […]
