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 — Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday said his government is committed to restoring the statehood and other constitutional guarantees to Jammu and Kashmir, which were revoked in August 2019. He also spoke on the protests in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) to say that his party’s forebears were right in fighting off the […]
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 […]
POONCH — Family members of a policeman, who was found hanging inside the room of his friend in Rajouri district on March 10 this year, staged a protest here, demanding constitution of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) into the alleged “murder” of their kin. The protesters including women, men and children assembled at Shaheedi Yadghar […]
SRINAGAR — The management of Kashmir Law College, Srinagar has removed Dr Sheikh Showkat from the post of Principal with immediate effect and the process to appoint the new principal has been initiated by the college management. According to a statement to local news agency, Dr Showkat has been a hard-line ideologue of Pakistani backed […]
NEW DELHI — The Delhi Police on Monday registered an FIR against unknown ABVP students based on the complaint received from a group of students in connection with a clash in JNU campus over non-vegetarian food, officials said. This comes a day after two groups of students clashed at the Jawaharlal Nehru University’s Kaveri Hostel […]
SRINAGAR — Weather remained dry in J&K and Ladakh on Monday as the Meteorological (MeT) department forecast mainly clear to partly cloudy weather in the two union territories during the next 24 hours. “Weather is expected to remain mainly clear to partly cloudy in J&K and Ladakh during the next 24 hours”, an official of […]
NEW DELHI — India reported a marginal decline at 861 Covid cases in a span of 24 hours, and six deaths were also recorded, said the Union health ministry on Monday morning. The new deaths have taken the toll to 5,21,691. Following a continuous downward trend, India’s active caseload has declined to 11,058. Active cases […]
NEW DELHI — Violence in the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus after a disagreement over non-vegetarian food being served on campus left several students injured. The incident took place in Kaveri hostel on Sunday , after members of the right-wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad protested against non-vegetarian food being served on Ram Navami. According to the […]
ISLAMABAD — Members of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) took out rallies in several cities of Pakistan on Sunday to protest the ouster of former prime minister and party chairman Imran Khan through a no-confidence motion moved by the Opposition. Protest rallies were organised in cities like Islamabad, Karachi, Peshawar, Malakand, Multan Khanewal, Khyber, Jhang and […]
SRINAGAR — In view of laying pipeline for raw water, the Executive Engineer Master Plan division Srinagar has announced that the water supply would remain affected for two days from April 13 in several areas. An order issued in this regard said that the laying of 1200 mm raw water pipeline has become mandatory and […]
SRINAGAR — A 9-year-old boy was killed after being hit by a vehicle in south-Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Sunday. Reports reaching GNS said that a boy namely Moin Fayaz son of Fayaz Ahmad Kandroo, a resident of Veeri Bijbehara was hit by an unknown ‘Load Carrier’ vehicle, bearing no registration number plate. In the incident, […]
SRINAGAR — Kashmir Valley logged 30 fresh Covid-19 cases while there was no case reported from Jammu division for the fifth consecutive day on Sunday, officials said. There was no death due to the virus in the last 24 hours either in Kashmir or Jammu, they said. They said that while there was no fresh […]
